About Qualta Consulting LLC
The Company
Qualta Consulting LLC (“Qualta”)
Qualta is a software development company headquartered in Kennewick, Washington. Kennewick is one of 3-cities that make the Tri-Cities, in South Eastern Washington State. The Tri-Cities are near the confluence of the Snake, Yakima, and Columbia Rivers.The dry arid climate has turned the area into the heart of Washington wine country. Kennewick, alone, boasts over 160 wineries in a 50-mile radius.
Qualta has worked extensively with the local WSU (Washington State University campus) Internship program and with the Delta High School Internship program. Delta High School is a dedicated STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) school, to provide College and high school Computer Science students with a “real world” experience in a true software development environment.
Our Team
Naomi Dschaak (CEO).
Ms. Dschaak has over 16 years of experience with Information Visualization software. As the CEO of Qualta Consulting LLC, she is spearheading the development of the new Vorteks Visualization Environment. Prior to taking the lead with Qualta Consulting LLC, she worked at Future Point Systems for 6-years as the Director of Engineering Services. And prior to that, she held a Research Scientist/Engineering position at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, WA, supporting Information Visualization software.She has managed software support, configuration management, software licensing, deployment, and conducted international software training in the US, Africa, and Europe, as well as the primary documentation specialists for User Guides and training material. Naomi spent a year teaching introductory computer programming classes at Oregon Institute of Technology, and prior to that held a configuration management position at Atlas Telecom in Portland, OR. Ms. Dschaak has a B.S. in Software Engineering from Oregon Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Computer Information Systems from Univ. of Phoenix.
Lansdon Page (Sr. Software Developer).
Mr. Page has worked in different aspects of the Software Development environment for over 15-years. At Qualta Consulting, Mr. Page is utilizing his past experience and creativity to develop new software on the cutting edge of Information Visualization and mobile computing. Prior to Qualta Consulting, Mr. Page worked at Future Point System as a Software Developer on other Information Visualization projects.Prior to FPS, Lansdon worked with Columbia Basin College as a R25 Database Developer for a 2-years. In the Bay Area (San Mateo, CA), Lansdon also worked at Blaze Mobile coordinating development, external developers, and in-house Quality Assurance for prepaid games on Sprint, Version, T-Mobile, and Cingular platforms. He also worked with Kayak Interactive as a database programmer and QA. Lansdon also spent a year as a Product Support Engineer at BAM Entertainment working on N64, PS2 and XBox submissions. Mr. Page earned a Bachelor's in Computer Science from WSU (Washington State University).