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Mercury Associates, Inc. is a leading provider of
fleet management consulting services. With offices in three states, our
staff of professional fleet consultants has assisted hundreds of public and
private sector clients evaluate and identify opportunities to improve
all facets of their fleet management and operating practices. Our
consulting team combines years of hands-on fleet management experience
with more than two decades of fleet management consulting experience.
This combination of experience enables our clients to tackle a wide
array of challenges and opportunities, secure in the knowledge that our
findings will be technically sound and defensible to senior management,
elected officials, and other decision makers, but also practical and "implementable."
Our work with fleets ranging in size from fewer than 100 to more than
25,000 vehicles and pieces of equipment has given us a full appreciation
of the daily demands and expectations that most fleet management
organizations share in common, and of the operational, managerial, and
political environments that make each fleet manager's job unique. We do
not employ a "cookie cutter" approach to our consulting engagements.
Rather, we tailor each project to the particular circumstances, needs,
and objectives of our client. We are passionate about seeing our
recommendations implemented, so we work hard to understand the
communication channels and decision making processes through which a
fleet manager must navigate if he or she is to effect real business
process changes and tangible, measurable improvements in performance.
The key principals in our firm are:
Paul Lauria
President
Paul has been a fleet consultant for over 19 years providing consulting
and training services to hundreds of governmental, utility, and
corporate clients. Prior to co-founding Mercury, he was Vice President
and National Director of Fleet Management Consulting Services for David
M. Griffith & Associates and Maximus, and a Senior Manager in the
National Transportation Consulting Group of Ernst & Young. A frequent
speaker at industry conferences and author of numerous articles and
publications on fleet management topics, Paul has worked extensively in
the areas of program evaluation, strategic planning and business process
reengineering, fleet replacement planning and financing, and cost
charge-back system development. The clients with whom he has worked
range from Walt Disney World Company to the US Army, and from the Alaska
Department of Transportation and Public Facilities to the US Virgin
Islands Department of Property and Procurement. Paul holds a master’s
degree in Transportation Planning from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
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Paul Lauria by e-mail -
plauria@mercury-assoc.com
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Randy Owen, CAFM
Senior Vice President
Randy
has been a fleet consultant for over 15 years. Prior to founding
Mercury, he served as a senior manager in the Maximus Fleet Management
Consulting Group. Before beginning his consulting career, he was the
fleet manager for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works and
for the City of Charlotte. An active member of such industry
associations as the National Association of Fleet Administrators (NAFA) and the
American Public Works Association (APWA), Randy is particularly noted for his
work in the areas of best practice assessments, competitiveness reviews,
and managed competition and outsourcing and privatization. His department won a managed
competition when he served as Charlotte’s fleet manager, and he has
assisted such clients as San Diego County and the cities of Houston and
Dallas in this area. He holds a master’s degree in Political Science
from UCLA.
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Randy Owen by e-mail -
rowen@mercury-assoc.com
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Brad Kelley
Vice President
Prior to founding Mercury, Brad was
a manager in the Maximus Fleet
Group, which he joined in 1999. Previously, he was assistant fleet
manager for Sarasota County, Florida. He specializes in the use of
information technology in fleet management organizations. As a
consultant, Brad has
implemented many of the best-known fleet systems in
the industry, and has assisted clients such as the NASA, US ARMY, State of Minnesota,
the City of Phoenix, and the County of Seminole (FL) in integrating and evaluating
commercial-off-the-shelf software options, implementation and reengineering information
technology infrastructure, and integrating productivity-enhancement
tools - including wireless devices, web-based reports, document imaging
systems, and electronic repair manuals. Trained as a certified Microsoft
and Citrix engineer, Brad holds a master’s degree in Public
Administration from Southern Illinois University.
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Brad Kelley by e-mail -
bkelley@mercury-assoc.com
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Key associates within our firm are:
Dave Robertson, CAFM
Senior Associate Consultant
Dave has over 30 years of experience as a
professional fleet manager in the public and the private sector. He held
three fleet management positions with the City of Houston (in the Fire,
Police, and General Services departments) over a period of 16 years, and
spent 17 years in the fleet leasing industry, working primarily with
over-the-road truck fleets. One of the best-known fleet managers in the
United States, Dave is a long-time member and the immediate past
President of the National Association of Fleet Administrators (NAFA). He has
extensive experience as a fleet management instructor, has testified
before the Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy on
legislative and regulatory initiatives of national significance to the
fleet industry and fleet management profession, and has authored
articles on a variety of fleet management topics. His particular areas
of expertise include emergency vehicle fleet management, parts
management, maintenance staffing and work flow management, maintenance
facility planning, and alternative fuels. Dave holds a bachelors degree
in History from Eckerd College.
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Dave Robertson by e-mail -
drobertson@mercury-assoc.com
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Chris Amos, CAFM
Senior Associate Consultant
Chris is a part-time consultant with Mercury
Associates in addition to serving as the Commissioner of Equipment
Services for the City of St. Louis, where he manages a fleet of 3,000
vehicles and pieces of equipment. He also edits fleet management and
alternative fuel articles for Automotive Digest (
www.automotivedigest.com
). Chris’ previous fleet management experience includes five years as
Fleet Manager for St. Louis County, MO and ten years as a US Army
officer. Chris has participated in several federal rulemaking processes,
testified before the Senate Energy Committee, taught at numerous fleet
management seminars and conferences, and served as editor of several
important fleet management manuals published by the National Association
of Fleet Administrators. In 2003, he was honored as the inaugural
recipient of NAFA’s Excellence in Education Award; he also is a previous
recipient of NAFA’s Larry Goill Quality Fleet Management Ideas Award.
Chris holds a master’s degree in Information Systems Management from the
University of Southern California.
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Chris Amos by e-mail -
camos@mercury-assoc.com
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