About Us

Mission

Use off-the-shelf software to help streamline and automate business processes thereby reducing your IT costs and making you more competitive

Vision

• Build a vibrant community
• Deliver valuable solutions to our consulting customers
• Speed-up and reduce cost by leveraging our products
• Provide hosting services in the cloud to our customers
• Partner with other system integrators

Values

• Our customers - serving you is the most important thing we do
• Our partners - let's do business together and help one another
• Our team members - you are what make Qdabra great!

Team Members

Patrick Halstead

Microsoft MVP since 2005

Patrick worked at Microsoft for 11 years and was lead developer on Microsoft InfoPath 2003. He founded Qdabra in September of 2003 with the goal of helping businesses adopt this revolutionary forms technology. At Qdabra, Patrick spends most of his time managing consulting projects and helping customers with product sales.

Hilary Stoupa

Microsoft MVP since 2009

Hilary graduated from Whitman College with a bachelor's degree in English Literature. She later found her true passion as a business process analyst at Key Technology, creating custom solutions for internal customers with an emphasis on streamlining and standardization. At Qdabra, Hilary spends most of her time developing InfoPath solution and keeping customers happy.

James Rishe

Microsoft MVP since 2010

Jimmy graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Computer Engineering in 2005. At Qdabra, Jimmy spends most of his time developing Web service and SQL database solutions for InfoPath.

Mel Balsamo

InfoPath Forms and UI Expert

Born and raised in the Philippines, Mel graduated from the Mapua Institute of Technology and holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering. She has been involved in different fields such as web marketing, blogging, research, technical remote assistance, etc. At Qdabra, Mel spends most of her time creating beautiful InfoPath forms for our consulting customers.

Jim Cantwell

SQL and SharePoint Expert

Jim has over twenty years of development experience ranging from custom vertical market applications to shrink-wrapped development tools. During his eleven plus years at Microsoft Jim was a developer on five versions of Visual Basic and the lead developer for the Visual Basic .NET runtime. At Qdabra, Jim spends most of his time delivering B.I. solutions (reporting) and helping customers integrate with SharePoint.

Kaoru Okumura

Quality Assurance Expert

Kaoru worked for ten years at Microsoft as a program manager, and many years at IBM Tokyo Research Lab as an advisory researcher. She led natural language related research and products including Japanese search and proofing tools. At Qdabra, Kaoru spends most of her time assuring that our consulting projects and products have the highest software quality.

Ernesto Machado

Product Support and Documentation

Ernesto leads our support & quality assurance team. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Ohio State University and speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese. At Qdabra, Ernesto spends most of his time helping customers use our many products.

Janice Kutzera

Office Manager

Janice has over 15 years of corporate accounting experience, most recently with Univar, Inc. In addition she spent several years as a part-time tax accountant while raising her children. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration/Finance from the University of Washington. At Qdabra, Janice makes sure our small business runs efficiently.

Jo-Anne Alfafara

Product Support and Documentation

Jo-Anne has over three years experience in software testing and quality assurance. Before joining Qdabra, she worked as a QA tester for GXS and was involved in using automated tools for functional, regression and compatibility testing. Jo-Anne holds a Bachelors degree in Systems & Software Engineering.

Marci Dahms

Customer Satisfaction

Marci has over fifteen years of experience in administrative/business support services and client relationship management. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Human Services from Virginia Wesleyan College. She helps keep the office running smoothly and assists Qdabra customers with product sales.

Anson Hidajat

InfoPath Forms Expert

Anson graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Computer Science. He worked at Microsoft for 4 years on the InfoPath and SharePoint teams and was in charge of key features such as controls, client/server parity, and SharePoint setup.

Qdabra Software
218 Main Street, Suite 731, Kirkland, WA 98033
Sales: 877.544.2389