Beacon Technology Partners Primary Market Research Firm

While at Cahners Publishing, Jim developed "The Mind of the Engineer," the industry's first and only psychographic analysis of the design engineering community in the electronics industry. And in collaboration with fellow Beacon Technology Partners founder Steve Leibson, he has introduced several new analytical techniques to studying customer/supplier interactions and brand choice modeling in the EOEM.

In addition, Jim is a lecturer at local colleges in the Boston area, and has spoken at electronics industry events such as the Embedded Systems Conference and EDS, as well as many industry events sponsored by EETimes. Prior to his experience at Beacon, he was a principal at McLeod-Warrick Research. From 1992 to 1995, he served as the Director of Research at Reed Business Information (formerly Cahners Publishing). During his career, he has also served as the Research Director at the Christian Science Monitor and Urban and Associates and as a consultant to a wide variety of media companies including Knight-Ridder and Scripps-Howard.

Jim is co-author of the GMG Insights Research series, covering a variety of subjects relevant to the IT supplier community. Topics include SOA/Web services security solutions report "Global report on SOA/Web Services Security Initiatives" and the "Current State of IT Information Security" report. Information on Beacon's research work has also been included in the EETimes, Embedded Systems Design, Electronic Buyer's News, Electronic Supply and Manufacturing, On Wall Street, Federal Computer Week, and other industry publications. Through the leadership of Jim McLeod-Warrick, Beacon's primary research in the USA and international markets has helped many of the world's largest technology and technology publishing firms to make strategic decisions.

Before joining Beacon, Julie was employed by Perseus Development Corporation. During her four year tenure, she managed survey marketing research projects for high-profile consumer product companies. Prior to Perseus, she worked for Solucient, LLC, where she managed the internal Data Management Center (DMC) which employed 10 representatives responsible for survey data scanning, translation, tracking and coding.

Julie started her career working for Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in their cellular billing division. During her 6 years of employment there, she learned key skills in cellular billing management, customer service and product development.

She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from the University of New Hampshire with a dual major in Political Science and Justice Studies and a minor in Middle-Eastern Affairs. While at UNH, she competed on the Intercollegiate Dressage Team, was an elected member of the Student Senate, served as President and an instructor of the campus Hepcats Swing Dance Club, and studied abroad in Budapest, Hungary. Sarah has also interned with the New England High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Executive Office and the Live Free or Die Alliance where she was part of the social media update team and assisted with candidate position surveys.

Bridget's recent clients have included Boston Scientific, Texas Instruments, Johnson & Johnson, Intel, Tropicana, Aflac, GE Capital, and Conde Nast. She has developed a number of proprietary statistical metrics for clients and has experience in business-to-business, consumer, and government-funded scientific research.

She has been a tax accountant since 1984 and has a great deal of knowledge and experience which she brings to Beacon. Over the past several years with Beacon, Judy has developed great working partnerships with both our clients and vendors.

His expert advice and recommendations regarding our software and hardware purchase decisions, as well as strategic counsel on how best to evolve our infrastructure to meet the prospective demands and opportunities. Dennis provides us with 24/7 monitoring to ensure we are up and running smoothly at all times.

Josh has worked with clients all over the world creating packaging design, signage, screened artwork, corporate logos / identities, image / graph creation, and document layout.

Mike's recent clients include Dell, SAP, CA Technologies, and Scala. His work on market research projects includes development of MaxDiff and conjoint studies, and specialized processing of data for analysis using Perl and JavaScript within our survey software product.

Ms. Tabor has conducted research in a wide variety of industries including banking, lodging, dining, medical, publishing, political, consumer, customer satisfaction, and technology. She has managed all aspects of projects including questionnaire design, data collection, tabulation, analysis and presentation.

She spent several years managing quantitative research projects for Smith, Bucklin & Associates, the world’s largest association management company based in Chicago. During her time there, she sharpened her research and project management skills by developing and managing many different types of research studies including: annual compensation tracking studies for two major medical associations, along with a cost-of-doing-business study and consumer consumption benchmarking study for the car washing industry. In addition, she conducted multiple tracking studies for the following industries: health and beauty aids, steel distribution and coil coating.

Tricia also worked as a free-lance market research consultant for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois conducting its quarterly satisfaction study and for several major consumer-packaged goods companies including Colgate-Palmolive and Procter & Gamble handling multiple branding and print-advertisement testing studies. She also worked for the US Department of Labor compiling and tracking pricing data for the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the United States’ main economic indicator.

Rounding out her professional experience, Tricia spent a few years managing direct marketing campaigns for Cendant Corporation, a major US direct marketing company. While at Cendant, she added to her skill set both the knowledge of and application in promotional print design, data base modeling, and business development.

Tricia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with concentrations in market research, marketing and biology.