| Cybertary, Inc. was founded in Roseville, California in 2005 to meet the growing demand for reliable and professional administrative outsourcing and is now positioned to grow into a diverse, talented, nationwide, creative network of Virtual Assistants (VAs) who collaborate to meet the ever-changing administrative needs of the small business owner. | | |
Patricia Beckman - Founder/CEO  Patricia has been responsible for overseeing large-scale projects to their successful implementation for most of her professional career. From 1991 through 1995, Patricia was the Controller for Kenneth Rodrigues & Associates, a high-profile architectural firm in San Jose, California. From 1995 through 1998, Patricia owned and operated her own consulting business, called "Value Added," where she provided financial leadership to small- and medium-sized businesses that required expertise and direction without the full-time commitment. During that tenure, Patricia worked with several clients in various industries simultaneously, initiating systems and documentation to set a practical and efficient trend for each company's regular staff.
In 1998, Patricia was recruited to work in the finance department at Hewlett Packard where her sole role was to lead cross-functional teams in the "Plan, Do, Check, Act" effort for new initiatives that impacted operations and finance. Patricia analyzed systems, processes and procedures to ensure efficiency, accuracy, automation and simplification.
From 2001 through 2004, Patricia worked for Nolte Engineering, in Sacramento, California, where she managed a team of financial analysts who worked all over the Western United States. Patricia traveled to all of the Nolte offices to provide support and management to their finance operations, as well as conducted training classes to teach project managers how to budget, read financial reports and plan in order to improve the financial results of engineering projects.
Patricia's most rewarding career has been as a wife and mother to her two daughters. She left Nolte to be at home with her family before founding Cybertary in September, 2005.
Patricia studied economics at the University of California, Davis. She is a certified QuickBooks® Pro Advisor, Girl Scout leader and mentor to virtual assistants nationwide.
Tim Holadia - Outsourced Franchise Sales Manager
Timothy L. Holadia is the President and CEO of Franmogul based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He founded Franmogul in July 2006. Franmogul is a consulting firm providing services to franchisors during all stages of their franchise development as well as assisting prospective franchises in finding the right franchisor through brokering services. Before founding Franmogul, Timothy spent the previous six years as the Vice President of Development for Geeks on Call America. Timothy was the third person hired with Geeks on Call and oversaw the development from the beginning until he left. During that time Geeks On Call awarded 415 units and ranked as the 30th fastest growing franchise according to Entrepreneur. Timothy personally awarded 285 of the 415. Timothy is a Certified Franchise Executive (CFE). Leah Pickard - Operations Manager 
Leah Pickard has been the Operations Manager for Cybertary since August, 2006. She comes to Cybertary after eleven years at Kaiser Permanente, in Roseville, California. At Kaiser, Leah was the Operations Coordinator for the hospital medicine department, a rapidly growing department of over 100 physicians. As Operations Coordinator, it was her duty to ensure that the day-to-day operations of the department ran smoothly and successfully. Her experience as an Operations Coordinator provided her with the skills she needs to be successful as the Operations Manager for Cybertary.
Leah is a focused problem-solver, with an array of technical skills to accompany her tireless work ethic.
Leah's proudest role is that of mother to her two beautiful daughters and wife to her husband of twelve years.
Jim Fitzgerald - Director of Franchise Development and Regional Training 
Jim Fitzgerald has owned or managed ten small businesses over the last 26 years. Jim has been in franchise sales and has worked as a franchise development consultant since founding his own franchise brokering and consulting firm in 2004. Jim is the President of The Franchise Guys, located in Rocklin, California, and is acting as our Director of Franchise Development and Regional Training, handling our franchise sales activities and regional representative training. From 2002 to 2004, Jim was a sales coach for real estate sales agents and brokers at RE Marketing located in Rancho Cordova, California. From 2000 to 2002, Jim was a small business coach with the Small Business Resource Center in Sacramento, California, where he personally coached a variety of small business owners and managers in all areas of business improvement and development. | |
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