Principals

Geoffrey C. Tritsch
President and Founder

Geoffrey C. Tritsch is the President and founder of Compass Consulting International, Inc. He is an expert in the information technology, telecommunications, and information transport needs of large end-user clients. He has over 500,000 lines of voice, data, and video experience in the complex issues associated with colleges and universities, state governments, and other users of large, distributed systems. 

Geoff has worked in the telecommunications industry for more than thirty years, the last twenty of which in consulting.  On January 1, 2007, he joined Vantage Technology Consulting Group in the role of Senior Consultant, where he continues to focus on higher education projects, helping institutions select, implement, and manage voice, data, and video technology.  Prior to the formation of Compass, he was one of the founders of Technology Management International, Inc., a market research firm specializing in emerging technologies. Geoff was also one of the Principals of Powers Tritsch & Associates, Inc., where he was directly involved as an end-user consultant in the specification and acquisition of over $125 million per year of telecommunications products and services. He began his consulting career as Vice President of Business Consulting for Telecommunications Management Corporation, specializing in the telecommunications needs of large end-user clients in the health care, university, and government arenas. In these positions he was responsible for all operations and consulting services from data gathering, through recommendations, to implementation and acceptance testing.

He also spent over 11 years with New England Telephone Company in positions including marketing, installation management, and central office (toll test) responsibilities. He is a highly respected lecturer for telecommunications seminars and association gatherings, and has published numerous articles in telecommunications industry magazines and journals.

Geoff can be reached by telephone at 617/374-0700 x205 or by email to geoffrey.tritsch@vantagetcg.com or info@compassconsulting.com.

David C. Metz
Senior Consultant

At Compass Consulting International, Inc., and at Telecommunications International, Inc., Dave has been involved in numerous major projects. He has been Project Leader for telecommunications system replacement projects at Southern Illinois University, three campuses of the University of Maryland system, The University at Albany, Dartmouth College and others. In most cases, this included assessing the voice, data and video communications needs of faculty, administration and students, preparation of written specifications, assisting in the management of the bidding and contract negotiations processes, and installation project management. David has also worked with projects at Rochester Institute of Technology, Norstar Bank, State University of New York at Buffalo, Ithaca College, Virginia Tech, Adelphi University, Albany Medical Center, Duke University Medical Center, Goulds Pumps, and other clients. He has consulted to architects in designing the new schools of business administration at the University of Baltimore and the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Prior to consulting, Dave was the Director of Telecommunications at the University of Colorado and had full responsibility for the campus telephone system. He directed a project aimed at selecting, implementing and administering a modern voice and data communications system designed to replace the existing voice service, extend data capabilities, and integrate the new system with existing data networks, and to provide state-of-the-art voice and data services to all faculty, staff and resident students.

Prior to his time at the University of Colorado Dave was with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) as the Director of Telecommunications where he was responsible for the implementation and operation of an integrated voice and data telecommunications system serving all faculty and administrative offices and all dormitories. Mr. Metz was also responsible for the development and operations of a new telecommunications department and the hiring of all necessary staff.

Previous positions include Systems Analyst at RPI where he developed a comprehensive alumni development information system; Senior Systems Analyst at Colorado State University where he participated in the design, testing, implementation, and maintenance of an integrated personnel, budget and payroll system; and Director of Registration and Records at the State University College at Brockport. Mr. Metz started his career with IBM in Rochester, New York, as a marketing trainee and marketing representative where he did extensive course work in systems analysis, programming, installation planning and installation management. His marketing territory focused largely on education and government installations.

Dave can be reached by telephone at 518/477-6109 or by email to info@compassconsulting.com.

Associates

Robert M. Kuhn
Senior Associate

An expert in harnessing information technology to the service of higher education, Dr. Kuhn has amassed a wealth of experience in his over 15 years as both an academic and an IT professional. As a mathematics doctoral candidate and later faculty member at Harvard University, as well as on the faculty of Boston University, he developed strong convictions about what IT could and should do for academicians and administrators. As a senior IT manager at Harvard University, Radcliffe College, and Boston College, he put those visionary ideas into most effective practice.

At Compass Consulting, Bob focused on assisting clients with strategic planning for information technology, academic technology planning (including computers in the classroom and distance learning), and disaster recovery preparation. His core competency begins with the application of information technology to the central activities of a university: learning, teaching, and research. But it extends deep into the fundamentals: system support (both desktop and server), hardware, operating systems and applications technologies, and the complex networking issues of LAN, campus backbone and WAN.

Before joining Compass Consulting, Bob held posts as Director of Information Technologies at Radcliffe College, Director of Academic and Research Services at Boston College, and Director of Computing in the mathematics department at Harvard University. Bob is currently the Executive Director of Technology at Simmons College, Boston.

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