P. Allison Minugh, Ph.D., President and CEO
Dr. Minugh serves as Datacorp’s President and Chief Executive Officer, providing leadership to all of Datacorp’s research services. For more than 22 years, and in consultation with leading researchers across the country, Dr. Minugh has honed her research methodology skills and is widely respected for her outstanding needs assessment, social indicators, and data management protocols. Dr. Minugh has extensive quantitative and survey research experience, and has a lengthy history conducting randomized clinical trials.
Presently, Dr. Minugh holds an adjunct faculty position at the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies Department of Community Health. In this capacity, Dr. Minugh served as co-investigator on a Brown University, NIAAA-funded brief intervention study of injured emergency department patients with hazardous drinking histories. She currently leads the data management activities as the Data Management Team Lead of CSAP’s Data Analysis Consolidation and Coordination Center. Previously, Dr. Minugh held a faculty appointment at Harvard Medical School and served as the primary technical advisor for the National Technical Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Needs Assessment.
Dr. Minugh received her doctorate in behavioral health psychology from the University of Rhode Island and completed advanced training in addictions research by completing the NIAAA-funded post-doctoral fellowship at the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies.
In addition to her faculty appointment at Brown University, Dr. Minugh also holds an appointment on the Wyoming Governor’s Council on Substance Abuse and Violent Crime where she chairs the Violence Subcommittee.
Susan L. Janke, M.S., Chief Operating Officer
Susan L. Janke is co-owner and Chief Operating Officer at Datacorp. With more than 22 years of experience in the fields of mental health and addiction treatment, Ms. Janke is regarded as an authoritative expert in the development and administration of behavioral health care programming. In addition to providing clinical project direction, she is responsible for managing Datacorp’s daily operations including: facility management, human resources, and strategic planning.
Previously, Ms. Janke developed, implemented and managed a variety of programs across the treatment service continuum for both privately and publicly funded treatment and prevention agencies. Working in both funding sectors provided an unparalleled opportunity to work with culturally and socio-economically diverse populations requiring a full spectrum of services. In consultation with leading researchers, Ms. Janke gained extensive experience in the development, operation, and evaluation, of effective treatment programs, and continues to apply this knowledge as a sought after treatment improvement consultant.
Ms. Janke serves as project manager for all treatment-related projects. She has worked with many State level administrators, and treatment center executives to develop “Comprehensive Treatment Centers”, capable of providing evidence-based practices for the entire continuum of care. A ‘science to practice approach’ utilizing continuous quality improvement techniques is embraced, and Ms. Janke regularly uses these skills to help leading treatment centers assess their program structure, staffing, and effectiveness. Ms. Janke has also directed treatment outcome evaluation studies that have documented significant improvements in levels of substance use and crime, and has used this information to help professionals understand how treatment affects their clients.
Ms. Janke received her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Rhode Island, and her Bachelor’s degree in Health Education from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Diane M. Turner-Bowker, Ph.D., Director of Research & Development
Diane M. Turner-Bowker, PhD, Director of Research and Development at Datacorp, is a social experimental psychologist with more than 20 years experience in program evaluation and applied health, educational, and social science research. Dr. Turner-Bowker provides solutions for health, education, and business through the application of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. She has demonstrated experience in focus groups, heuristic evaluation, one-on-one interviews, cognitive testing, usability testing, market research, gap analysis, stakeholder interviews, market segmentation research, and customer satisfaction studies. Additionally, Dr. Turner-Bowker offers expertise in program evaluation research; survey development, validation and equivalence studies; health outcomes and educational research; and product development.
Dr. Turner-Bowker is currently Principal Investigator on three NIH-sponsored Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants to develop and evaluate multi-modal health-related quality of life (HRQOL) assessments for asthma, headache, and HIV. She is Co-Investigator on an SBIR to develop an HRQOL assessment for chronic kidney disease. Dr. Turner-Bowker also currently serves a Senior Research Associate for Group Dimensions International.
While Senior Scientist at QualityMetric Incorporated, Dr. Turner-Bowker developed and evaluated innovative measures for acute and chronic pain, dementia, influenza, migraine, mild cognitive impairment, obesity, pediatric asthma, pediatric health, and rhinitis.
Prior, Dr. Turner-Bowker was Senior Researcher in Program Evaluation at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Tobacco Control Program, where she analyzed prevalence trends in population-based data, evaluated the efficacy of smoking cessation programs for adults and youth, served as a statewide consultant on the Massachusetts Research Evaluation Committee, and communicated best practices to international audiences.
As Equity Specialist for a U.S. public school system, Dr. Turner-Bowker conducted group sessions with students, parents, teachers, and administrators to communicate the psychological, legal, and financial consequences of discriminatory and harassing behaviors in the workplace. Dr. Turner-Bowker has also conducted research on women’s health, poverty, gender stereotypes, children’s print media, and has served as an advocate for adults and children with disabilities.
Robert R. Gagnon, Director of Platform Development
Mr. Gagnon, Director of Platform Development, is a software and systems integration engineer with over 20 years experience designing and developing custom technology driven solutions. He is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and a certified Microsoft .Net Developer and Documentum System Administrator.
During his career, Mr. Gagnon has been involved with the design and development of complex systems often having numerous components such as COTS (Computer Off The Shelf) software, custom developed software, and hardware. He has been involved with all facets of the projects from requirements gathering and custom programming to training and ongoing maintenance. The solutions designed by Mr. Gagnon may be found in use or resold by global companies such as CODA Financials, Inc., Tudor Investment Corporation, and International Textile Group, Inc.
Mr. Gagnon has served as a consultant to clients from a wide variety of industries including hospitals, universities, and financial institutions, lending his expertise in database design, research data warehouses, database consolidation and refactoring, network administration, and custom programming. He has also performed mechanical engineering design and data analysis work for the US Government.
Jimmy Andrews, Director of Information Systems
Mr. Andrews has been involved with the Information Technology industry as a hobby and profession for over 25 years. As a child, Mr. Andrews develo
ped several programs to help with mathematics tables and also programmed a fractal generator. As a young adult, he attended the US Coast Guard Academy, majoring in Electrical Engineering, and SUNY New Paltz where he majored in Electrical Engineering and Theoretical Physics
In 2000, Mr. Andrews was hired to work at IBM on the functional testing line to work on and troubleshoot super computer components. Early on he was recognized as having an extreme learning curve and was recruited to work on functional testing procedures for prototype systems and components. This allowed Mr. Andrews to work directly with the IBM Engineering team to create and improve upon current functional testing practices. This ultimately allowed him to be the only contractor in the company to work on a multi-million dollar hardware simulation component to develop baseline measurements, testing procedures, and repair processes.
When Mr. Andrews left IBM, he enjoyed several positions as an IT manager or senior technical staff, along with a short stint in sales and marketing. In 2004, Mr. Andrews was contracted to work with Hudson/Trident, a joint venture company, to conduct security evaluations of shipping ports for the country of Oman and the country of Haiti. While on location, some of the responsibilities included physical and virtual security reviews of the IT systems along with remediation plans to address any found issues. These evaluations were created by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in response to the terrorist attacks in 2001.
In 2007, Mr. Andrews began work for UNFI, which was then called United Natural Foods. At UNFI, he worked as a Systems Administrator for the organization, specifically as an Active Directory Administrator and worked alongside 120 other IT personnel across the country. Due to the depth and range of Active Directory, he was involved with every major and minor change to the infrastructure. This also had an unintended consequence, which was that Mr. Andrews became the de-facto IT services personnel to be contacted when a major issue surfaced, a non-standard application wasn’t working, or if there were any types of Microsoft question or problem. This allowed him to become very versed in all manner of troubleshooting, deployment and maintenance, across multiple systems.
In 2008, Mr. Andrews joined Datacorp as the Director of Information Systems to handle the day to day operations of the IT environment. This position also includes the development, testing and deployment of strategic IT plans to keep pace with Datacorp’s rapid expansion into new business arenas. This has included restructuring the storage, network, remote access and other Enterprise Systems environment. Mr. Andrews works closely with Dell and Microsoft sales personnel and engineers to maintain a 0-day knowledge of products, systems and case studies that may be a fit for the Datacorp model. Due to the size of the data processing model Datacorp employs, we have been identified as a company that does not currently fit into any classic case study. Both Dell and Microsoft are interested in the solutions Mr. Andrews will continue to move forward with.