About SKYROQ
Key Team Members
RAJ CHAUDHURY
Founder
Solutions Architect
SCOTT VIAFORE
Vice President
Marketing and Strategy
GIDON ALBERT
Chief Architect
JOHN CARPENTER
Director of Project Management Operations
JOSE ARROYO
Lead Consultant
PHIL HELAL
Account Executive
ISAAC MAUE
Staff Consultant
JACOB LIGON
Staff Consultant
SHIVANI MADHUSUDHAN
Staff Consultant
DAMIEN GRINTALIS
Project Manager
Documentation Specialist
ANGELA KEEFER
Director of Marketing & Administration
RAJ CHAUDHURY
Founder/Solutions Architect
Hometown: Columbia, MD
Current City: Ellicott City, MD
Favorites
Food: Pizza
Drink: Sparkling lemonade
Film: Lord of the Rings
TV: The Mandalorian
Book: A Wrinkle in Time
Music: Tool
Vacation Spot: Rehoboth Beach
Hobbies: Ice hockey
Fun Facts about me: I make ice cream.
Career:
SCOTT VIAFORE
Vice President
Marketing and Strategy
Hometown: Duxbury, MA
Current City: Duxbury, MA
Favorites
Food: Pasta
Drink: Sparkling water
Film: Usual Suspects
TV: Sherlock, There are so many shows that it is hard to pick just one.
Book: Da Vinci Code
Music: Orchestra and Jam Bands
Vacation Spot: Savoca, Italy
Hobbies: Wood Working/Building
Fun Facts about me: I competed at a high level in Javelin and ended up making the Olympic Trials.
Career: I started my career in recruiting, quickly jumped into sales and have been working in sales for the last thirteen years. During my tenure I learned all sides of the sales process from prospecting, developing the relationship, finalizing the deal and paperwork and mitigating any issues along the way. From an early age, my parents had always taught me to help people and I have continued to believe that to this day. As I grow in my career, I want to make sure that I am helping anyone that I can along the way.
GIDON ALBERT
Chief Architect
Hometown: Reston, VA
Current City: Reston, VA
Favorites
Food: Yes please
Drink: Just water
Film: The Departed
TV: The Boys
Book: The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
Music: Good music only.
Hobbies: CrossFit, Snowboarding, Motorcycles, and Yoga.
Fun Facts about me: Traveled coast to coast to coast on a motorcycle 3 times.
Career: Gidon has more than 30 years of experience in the CPM field and specializes in integrating accounting, finance, and technology functions. As an experienced OneStream XF, Oracle Cloud EPM, Oracle Hyperion, and IBM TM1 expert, he has delivered high-quality solutions and full life cycle implementations to global and national organizations in a variety of industries. Gidon combines his strong technical skills with his expertise with leading CPM implementations to deliver innovative, dependable, and nimble solutions to SKYROQ’s clients.
Before joining SKYROQ, Gidon served as an Executive Architect at MorganFranklin where he led technical solution delivery in the corporate performance management (CPM) practice. Gidon also worked at TopDown Consulting as a Hyperion Essbase developer. Gidon has multiple certifications from IBM, Oracle, and OneStream, and served on the TM1 and OneStream Partner Advisory Board.
Prior to switching to consulting, he worked for 15 years on the industry side at large companies like Nextel, Viacom, and E*TRADE developing robust enterprise close consolidation and forecasting solutions.
Gidon earned his B.S. in finance and accounting from the University of Maryland and his M.S. in information systems from John Hopkins University.
JOHN CARPENTER
Director of Project Management Operations
Hometown: Arlington, VA
Current City: Bedford, VA
Favorites
Food: Anything spicy and strong in flavor like Thai, Indian, and Italian
Drink: Sweet Tea (from growing up Southern I guess)
Film: Big Trouble in Little China
TV: Not really a TV person, but will get on a call with Scott V. to watch football.
Book: The Bible. Works of Peter F. Drucker. Mad Magazine (not a book, but I spent a lot of time reading it.) Books by Tom Mullen (who I got my favorite quote from “Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.”
Music: Classical, Blues, Metal, Alternative
Vacation Spot: Williamsburg, VA
Hobbies: Cooking, hiking and Phyllis, my wife of 50+ years. I think she is one of my hobbies too. And this is true.
Fun Facts about me: My dad taught me to be handy, so I take care of most of the problems that come with house ownership and get recruited by family friends and neighbors to help with theirs. I like wood working but I’ve built all the shelves and work benches that I need. My granddaughters (4 and 7) like to follow me around when I work on things at their house, and they are getting to be pretty good with hammering nails and using a screwdriver. Sawing is next.
Career: Professional: Programmer, DBA, Business and Systems Analyst, Client Services Manager, networking, Portfolio, Program and Project Management. Technologies include DevOps, Data Warehousing/BI, ERP’s. Founded PMO’s for some large organizations, management positions included Manager, Director, VI, Group VP. Certified Advanced Scrum Master and a lot of consulting.
Industry background to date spans an extensive range of sectors including Finance, Higher Education, Manufacturing, Aerospace & Defense, Energy & Utilities, Social Services and Non-Profit Organizations, Health Care and Retail.
Non-professional: Paper boy, landscaper, chef, bowling alley mechanic, auto mechanic, US Army (infantry) and then IT (how I got started in Technology), worked on a suicide hotline.
JOSE ARROYO
Lead Consultant
Hometown: Brewster, NY
Current City: Brewster, NY
Favorites
Food: Chicken Parmesan, Peruvian Food
Drink: Lime Gatorade
Film: My Cousin Vinny
TV: News Channel CNN
Book: To Kill a Mockingbird
Music: Spanish Music
Vacation Spot: Cape Cod, MA
Hobbies: Taking walks with the family and gym workouts.
Fun Facts about me: My first job as a waiter taught me how to be patient with people.
Career: Over the past five years I have been focusing on helping clients implement OneStream Consolidation applications, including Management Reporting, Budget and Forecasting for various sectors.
PHIL HELAL
Account Executive
Hometown: Ashland, OH
Current City: Strongsville, OH
Favorites
Food: Maryland Blue Crab, Middle Eastern Cuisine
Drink: Diet Coke (with a splash of vanilla syrup)
Film: Field of Dreams
TV: Hill Street Blues, Seinfeld
Book: 1776 by David McCullough, Ball Four by Jim Bouton.
Music: Classic Rock, Classical, Ashley Helal (instrumental).
Vacation Spot: Myrtle Beach, SC
Hobbies: History, Sports, Genealogy, Family photo/video projects.
Fun Facts about me: I competed on ESPN’s sports trivia show “2-Minute Drill”.
Career: I spent nearly 33 years at Alcoa/Arconic (part of Alcoa 2016 split) in corporate and business unit IT roles – from programmer to senior leadership. Our teams supported software solutions serving the Aerospace, Automotive, Commercial Transportation, Defense and Industrial Gas Turbine industries among others. I spent time in Pittsburgh, Cleveland and the Netherlands, where we deployed a common software solution as part of a European Financial Shared Services start-up. From 2019-2021 at Real Alloy, I led Phase I of a move of the standard ERP system to a cloud version. I was then happily retired but kept my eyes open to the right opportunity when Scott and Raj came along. I liked their approach to helping others meet their goals. So here I am!
ISAAC MAUE
Staff Consultant
Hometown: Granite City, IL
Current City: Bentonville, AR
Favorites
Food: NY Style Pizza, Beef/Lamb Biryani, BBQ
Drink: Water, Coffee
Film: Most adventure/action/suspense movies.
TV: Band of Brothers
Book: The Bible
Music: My music preference is all over the place.
Vacation Spot: Costa Rica
Hobbies: Mountain biking, bass fishing, cooking.
Fun Facts about me: I have a tailless cat. My last name is Prussian, but pronounced like the Hawaiian island. My great grandpa was the logo artist for Bunny Bread.
Career: I have five years experience in healthcare as an EMT/Paramedic and two years as a volunteer firefighter. I am currently a university student studying Computer Science.
JACOB LIGON
Staff Consultant
Hometown: Carrollton, TX
Current City: Grapevine, TX
Favorites
Food: TexMex
Drink: Ice water, Ale
Film: There Will Be Blood, if I had to pick one, but I have watched and loved well over a thousand movies.
TV: Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Seinfeld, South Park
Book: The Long Walk by Stephen King and any historical biographies
Music: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Vacation Spot: Colorado, national parks
Hobbies: Golf, movies, traveling
Fun Facts about me: I have been to over 30 U.S. states, a dozen national parks, and over 10 countries.
Career: I worked for a short time in the oil & gas industry after college before meeting Raj and have been consulting in the OneStream space ever since. I have gotten to work with a variety of clients, from smaller manufacturers to large oil corporations. I love getting to work one on one with clients to both solve their issues and provide new functionality.
SHIVANI MADHUSUDHAN
Staff Consultant
Hometown: Lutherville-Timonium, MD
Current City: Lutherville-Timonium, MD
Favorites
Food: HotPot
Drink: Strawberry Milk
Film: Spirited Away
TV: Arcane
Book: Thousand Splendid Suns
Music: Classical, Rap, Hip-hop
Vacation Spot: I don’t like traveling back to the same place – traveler at heart.
Hobbies: Badminton, Pickelball, Painting, Gaming.
Fun Facts about me: Give me an hour and I can make you a full course Indian meal.
Career: I have experience in retail and cloud consulting.
DAMIEN GRINTALIS
Project Manager/Documentation Specialist
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
Current City: Cockeysville, MD
Favorites
Food: Ropa Vieja
Drink: Water
Film: Alien
TV: Westworld
Book: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, Lisey’s Story by Stephen King, and Shadowland by Peter Straub.
Music: Post Malone, Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey, Halsey, Tori Amos, and Duran Duran.
Vacation Spot: St. Augustine, Florida
Hobbies: Reading, writing, word games, working out, and taking cooking classes with my husband.
Fun Facts about me: I’m a published writer of fiction, mostly under my maiden name, and I’ve had two short stories nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. I love dinosaurs, sharks, Godzilla, and monster movies.
Career: I’ve had a career filled with twists and turns that have taken me from retail to administrative to IT – where I worked with Raj for many years – to writing and now project management and documentation.
ANGELA KEEFER
Director of Marketing & Administration
Hometown: New Oxford, PA
Current City: Baltimore, MD
Favorites
Food: Chicken liver mousse pâté
Drink: Wine
Film: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
TV: Top Chef
Book: The Bible
Music: Classical, French, 70’s & 80’s
Vacation Spot: Montana
Hobbies: Gardening, Cooking, Event planning
Fun Facts about me: I’m a mom, wife, follower of Christ, homeschool teacher, and a two-time breast cancer survivor. I spent 5 years raising, butchering and selling bison in northern Maryland.
Career: I am a “Jack of all trades”. I have experience in the following fields: retail, sports gaming, administration, catering, farming, ceramic art, bookkeeping, restaurant GM, advertising, and social media. All of which were self-taught.
Diversity
SKYROQ’s philosophy is bring your whole self to work. At SKYROQ, diversity and inclusion are part of our DNA. Diversity extends far beyond visible differences. It represents a sense of belonging to a community and, with that, a fresh point of view. Together, we continue to empower an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees. It fuels our innovation and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we serve.