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About Us Leadership Team
Leadership Team

Peichen Jane Lee - President & CEO

Peichen Jane Lee (Jane) is a co-founder of UNICON International, Inc. and has assumed the responsibility as the President and CEO of the company since 1993. She not only successfully leads and grows UNICON to become one of the top 10 IT service firms and W/MBE enterprises in the Central Ohio area, but is also recognized as a dynamic female executive and a role model for many female professionals and Asian Americans. Jane has been nominated for several awards and featured in reputable publications such as Columbus CEO magazine and Columbus Dispatch newspaper. As the President and CEO of UNICON, Jane is in charge of setting the overall company direction, annual goals and objectives, as well as defining corporate strategies to ensure the continued growth and success of UNICON in the highly competitive market place. Prior to join UNICON, Jane worked as a Technical Manager for AT&T Bell Laboratories responsible for managing large-scale IT projects with hands-on experience in project planning, management, development, testing, integration, lab and environment support, technical documentation and customer and SW/HW vendor management. Her background includes over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and a Master degree in Computer Information Systems from the University of Houston.

Michael E. McAlear - Vice President

Mike joined UNICON in 1995 from Amdahl Corporation. He started with UNICON as a senior system consultant performing software development and project management functions for our clients. In 1998, he was promoted to be a Businesses Development Manager and a couple of years later he was further promoted to be a Director. In 2002, Mike became a Vice President assisting our President in overall business operation with a focus on sales and marketing support. Mike has responsibility for defining UNICON’s sales and marketing strategies, while also managing overall service offerings.  Under his direction and leadership, UNICON has dramatically increased its client base, has achieved double digit growth over the past 5 years, and is now recognized as one of the top IT firms in the Central Ohio.  Mike possesses a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from University of Michigan, an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Ohio State University.

Li-Hung David Lee - Vice President

David joined UNICON in March, 2000. Prior to joining UNICON, David was employed by Lucent Technologies for over 10 years. David brought with him significant amount of experience in global customer technical support and product deployment in the Telecommunication Industry. He also has hands-on experience in software development and testing for real-time systems.  David holds a M.S. degree in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technologies.

Rich Johnston - Director, IT Services

Rich serves as a Director in our Technology Solutions Business Unit and has responsibility for developing and supporting our customers in the Federal and State Governments, and in the Financial and Banking industries. Rich complemented the UNICON leadership team with his skills in computer security, system architecture design, performance analysis, quality management and independent verification and validation (IV&V). In addition, he had extensive experience in designing systems that utilized IBM mainframe, UNIX, .NET and JAVA technologies. Rich has lectured on computer science and quality topics at various colleges and universities and at software symposiums. He has 35 years of IT experiences and holds an M.S. degree and a B.S. degree from West Virginia University in Computer Science. Rich is also a former U. S. Army Officer, where he was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for his contribution in the area of software application design, quality and analysis.

Chris Anderson - Director, IT Services

As a Director in our Technology Solution Business Unit, Chris is responsible for leading project teams where he provides hands-on technical leadership with a focus on meeting critical customer needs according to strict time and cost constraints. Chris joined UNICON with over 20 years experience in the IT industry. He has an extensive background in all phases of the project development lifecycle with particular emphasis on project management, systems analysis, software architecture, software development, and software verification. He has worked in the telecommunications, database, and medical billing industries in the private sector and has worked on permitting/reporting systems and grant management systems in the public sector. Chris holds B.S degrees in Systems Analysis and Mathematics from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and an M.S. degree from the Ohio State University in Computer and Information Science. He is also a former adjust faculty member in computer science at Franklin University.

Laura Reed - Director, Corporate Sourcing

Laura manages the Technical Recruiting and Strategic Sourcing teams to ensure a constant influx of quality talent from the market in the skill sets that our clients demand.  With 13 years employment industry experience and 9 years recruiting experience in the technical industry Laura is able to share her expertise with the sourcing team to concentrate on long-term sourcing solutions and candidate relationships without sacrificing speed to meet client expectations.  Through her guidance the sourcing team has achieved a minimum of double digit growth in placements in each of the last three years.  Prior to being promoted to Director, Corporate Sourcing in 2008, Laura held several positions with UNICON dating back to 2000.  She joined the company as a Technical Recruiter, added Business Development responsibilities and was then promoted to Human Resources Manager, a position she held for 5 years.  Laura received her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Management, Marketing and Human Resources Management from Ohio University and she has been a Certified Sr. Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) since 2003.  Laura is active in the community through her participation in the Ohio Child Conservation League through which she has held several local and regional offices.


 

 

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