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AVCOR employs a team of seasoned professionals with significant operational, management, and consulting experience. We’ve worked on college and university campuses and in a diverse array of industries designing and implementing client-focused solutions. AVCOR was co-founded in 2001 with a goal of providing support for organizations in transformation. Although AVCOR offers a wide variety of general consulting services, our focus is in applying transformation support in higher education using best practices from a full range of industry, government, and higher education client experiences.

 

Executive Committee: The AVCOR Executive Committee provides management oversight of the day-to-day business operations of AVCOR Consulting.

 

 

Scott Nostaja, President and CEO
Mr. Nostaja, co-founder of AVCOR Consulting, has led major strategic, operational and organizational transformations for several leading institutions including the University of California, Santa Cruz and the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has served as a senior level advisor to University Presidents, Chancellors and other high-level administrators. Mr. Nostaja also has extensive experience in the private sector and has held senior level roles at Universal Studios, Inc., Sony Pictures Entertainment, CBS, Inc., and Andersen Consulting. While at Andersen, he served as a prominent leader in its Change Management Practice. At Universal Studios, he served as the Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Administration.

 

M. Scott Morris, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Morris is a co-founder of AVCOR Consulting, a specialist in organizational change management, and has served as a senior advisor to academic leaders across the country.  As Executive Director for Strategic Planning at the State University of New York at Buffalo he played a leading role in the development of academic planning models and the identification of strategic differentiators.  He leads the firm’s process re-engineering and systems integrations practices; and has extensive experience in the areas of facilities and work management, payroll and time & attendance, enterprise information technology system, and extended education. Mr. Morris is an instructor in the field of customer service management for California State University, Long Beach, and a guest lecturer for the university's Master's of Global Logistics program.

 

Mel Barracliffe, Senior Vice President
Prior to joining AVCOR, Mr. Barracliffe was a partner in Ernst & Young’s High Growth Consulting practice. Mr. Barracliffe was one of the original architects and authors of Ernst and Young’s Fusion and Navigator Systems SeriesSM methodologies and was formerly the director of Ernst and Young’s Center for Business Transformation in Las Colinas, Texas. He has more than 26 years of experience in the U.S., U.K, and Canada applying information technology to transform businesses.

 

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