With 15 years of experience in the Information Technology industry, Stephen Ashworth brings a unique combination of expertise in technology, strategy consulting and business management to the NIC team.
Most recently, Mr. Ashworth has been an instrumental force in assisting cities with their development, design and implementation of security requirements for ACJIS (Arizona Criminal Justice Information Systems) Connectivity through the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS).
Mr. Ashworth served as senior consultant and project manager for the City of Avondale on the design and implementation plan for a wireless build out to provide network connectivity to the City’s 24 well sites and booster stations.
He has been integral in the ACJIS Design and Implementation for the cities of Gilbert, Avondale, Surprise, Cottonwood, Buckeye and Tolleson.
Mr. Ashworth consulted the Town of Gilbert on the development of a wireless connectivity solution for the Town’s patrol vehicles.
As consultant for Cigna Medical Group of Arizona (CMG), Mr. Ashworth constructed business justification for IT outsourcing, developed technical specifications and business requirements for a Request for Proposals, and assisted in response evaluations. Further, Mr. Ashworth authored comprehensive business plan for a partnership between Central Arizona College, Central Arizona Valley Institute of Technology and five High School Districts which detailed technical plans, objectives, and educational programs for a Distance Learning program using a Microwave Wireless Network and Polycom.

Justin Burleigh joins NIC with 14 years of progressive IT experience and Six Sigma Champion Certification.  Mr. Burleigh manages overall company process and personnel to ensure consistent and excellent project delivery.

Prior to working with NIC, Mr. Burleigh with the Bechtel Corporation providing guidance and direction for all global corporate systems shared services, managed department work schedules, projects status and budgets, and supervised overall corporate systems architecture.

He created comprehensive Six Sigma sustainable process workflows, documentation and metrics. Mr. Burleigh will use this experience to bring NIC to the goal of reaching Six Sigma standards.

Adam Petrovsky returns to NIC as the Sales and Marketing Director after two years managing an $11M annual sales group. Adam has managed and directed sales instructors, training over 500 sales executives nationwide.  As the Sales and Marketing Director, Adam will manage our customer out-reach and development activities.

Adam is a successful, innovative, profit-driven management professional with over 18 years of measurable achievements in advanced technology industries. He is a visionary leader with a track record of superior performance in revenue productivity, customer relationship management, negotiation, communication and leadership skills to contribute to corporate goals.

Adam holds his Cisco Sales Expert (CSE V3) certification, Cisco specializations in Advanced Unified Communications, Life Cycle Services, Advanced Routing and Switching, Advanced Wireless LAN, Advanced Security and has completed the Management-In-Action Program(MIAP)

As the PMO Manager, Ronda Graves is responsible for ensuring the success of Customer projects. Her responsibilities include ensuring that her team provides the up-most in customer satisfaction, maintains project budgets, and completes jobs on schedule. Ms. Graves oversees the daily activities of the Project Managers and Administrators.

David Phillips began working at NIC in 2004. As the Manager of Integrated Services, Mr. Phillips coordinates a group of Microsoft and CISCO certified engineers who manage the design and implementation of Microsoft and CISCO technologies. He oversees network designs, customer estimates and statements of work. Mr. Phillips is responsible for assigning resources to ensure timely and successful implementations at customer locations. As a CISCO Certified Inter-network Expert (CCIE), Mr. Phillips is widely experienced in LAN/WAN and IP Telephony systems.

Before coming to NIC, Mr. Phillips worked as a Sr. Network Engineer for Avnet Inc. With Avnet he designed and implemented network management tools for monitoring customer networks, resolved connectivity issues for customer networks and maintained a national lab. Before Avnet, Mr. Phillips spent the prior 6 years working with CISCO Systems designing cost-effective inter-networks per product and customer specifications.

Mr. Phillips received his Master of Computer Sciences degree from Arizona State University in 1995. Additionally, Mr. Phillips is a Cisco Certified Inter-network Expert (CCIE#1338) and is certified in Remote Access Technologies. He has programming experience in C, PASCAL, Perl, and HTML.

Rodney Waclaw provides overall operations management direction for NIC’s Wireless Services Group (WSG) and the Physical Security Group (PSG). He is responsible for designing and estimating opportunities within the WSG and oversees design and estimation for the PSG. Mr. Waclaw establishes operations service objectives, policies, procedures and performance standards for wireless and physical security projects.

Before joining NIC, Mr. Waclaw worked for Stewart Electric and Communications as their Executive Directors of Business Development, Systems Technology, and RF & Field Operations.  In these positions Mr. Waclaw was in charge of new business opportunities, strategic planning, design, estimating, project management, and general operationsin Systems Technology, RF, and Wireless Services for multiple cellular service providers through out the US Mid- and Southwest. Following 9/11/2001, Mr. Waclaw was part of an elite team that was asked to form the Disaster Recovery Team for the World Trade Center. As a “Team Leader” for wireless communications disaster recovery, Mr. Waclaw helped bring communication links back online for New York City.

Mr. Waclaw received his advanced education through the United States Air Force Training, Community College of the Air Force in Communications Technology. Additionally, Mr. Waclaw has earned the following certifications:

• Crosby Risk Management, Rigging Safety and Planning
• Andrews, RF/Cablewave & Commscope Trained
• Comtrain Fall Protection & Rescue Training
• Supervisor Safety Training
• USAF Total Quality Management
• USAF Electronics Installation Team Chief Academy (with honors)
• USAF Electronics Installation Project Engineering
• USAF Fiber Optic Termination
• USAF Cable & Antenna Systems Installation Maintenance (with honors)
• USAF Standard Installation Practices (with honors)

Lon Clearwater supervises the Special Systems Department of NIC comprised of NIC’s Cabling, Audio/Visual and CAD departments. Working both in the field, and in the office, Mr. Clearwater is intimately involved with projects from estimate creation to installation. He is responsible for managing department estimators and installers to ensure projects are completes as projected.

Mr. Clearwater has extensive experience in low voltage cabling topologies, including data, voice, video, audio and security. Prior to taking the role as Special Systems Manager, Mr. Clearwater was a project manager at NIC managing some of our most complex projects.