Richard Roth, CEO
Rich Roth founded TNR Global to capitalize on his 30 year record of achievements in the IT field. Under his direction, TNR has grown into a leader in the field of enterprise search, providing FAST ESP integration and administration services, and open source search technologies. Rich Roth is a well known expert in software design and in cross-platform computer technology. He was Shepard in the Apache Foundation Gui-dev project, and he assisted Bob Young in early business plans for Red Hat.
Masters of System Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1973
Natasha Goncharova, Managing Director, Business Development
Natasha Goncharova is a co-founder of TNR Global. Natasha is responsible for TNR's operations management and business development. She has over a decade of experience in finance and business development. Prior to her work at TNR, she gained international experience in financial consulting (IBTCI) and in corporate finance. Her experience includes financial management, budgeting, and market analysis.
MBA, Isenberg SOM, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2003
Masters of Finance, University of World Economy and Diplomacy, 1998
Michael McIntosh, VP, Enterprise Search Technologies
Michael McIntosh leads the technology development and innovation efforts for TNR's search engine and database development services. Michael brings more than 10 years of experience in large scale systems design and operation, online consumer product development, high volume transaction processing and engineering management. He has extensive experience developing, integrating and maintaining search technology solutions for companies such as FAST Search and Lycos. Michael has worked with a number of Web 2.0 technologies, most recently developing a real-time Ajax-driven query keywords suggestion tool. He has hands on expertise with many tools, technologies and platforms including: Java, Python, PHP, Perl, Ajax, MySQL, HTML/XHTML, CSS, XML, and Unix/Linux.
Computer Management, ICM School of Business, 1995
Michael Klatsky, VP, System Administration
Michael Klatsky has over a decade of experience in developing and deploying highly-available internet systems. He is profiecient deploying Amazon Web Services for use in development and production systems. His industry expertise includes administration of authentication, authorization, and accounting systems, client/server architecture, wireless internet access networks, ISP architecture, distributed and cloud computing, particularly EC2, and single sign-on systems. Michael is proficient in deploying databases (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Berkeley DB, LDAP), mail servers (SMTP/POP/IMAP), wireless internet systems, clustering and HA Systems, VOIP technologies, messaging systems, and anti-spam/anti-virus systems.
Westfield State College, 1989
Ross Farinella, Sr. Software Engineer
Ross Farinella is a member of the Enterprise Search Team at TnR Global. Ross has been the lead developer for several software projects and has worked in all aspects of the software design process. Ross' interests in enterprise search include performance tuning, end-user experience, and learning algorithms. He has hands-on expertise with many tools, technologies and platforms including Java, C++, PHP, Python, XHTML/CSS, Javascript, Apache, MySQL, Windows Server, and various Linux distributions.
Computer Science, Information Assurance, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009
Cheryl Handsaker, Sr. Software Engineer
Cheryl Handsaker has over 20 years of software engineering experience in user interface design, object and relational database systems, object oriented programming, and web application development. Cheryl’s work at TNR Global spans the full range of responsibilities from software and web testing, development and maintenance to project management to spearheading our cloud computing for life sciences projects. Prior to TNR, Cheryl worked as an employee of or consultant to companies such as Hewlett Packard, Lotus Development Corporation, Segue Software, and the Rover Group, as well as numerous small businesses and non-profit organizations.
Computer Science, Database Systems, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1983
Tamar Schanfeld, Joomla Project Manager
Tamar manages Joomla! projects at TnR Global, including ShofarSites. She is an experienced technical and marketing writer, and has written manuals, specifications, user guides, and articles for high tech and financial firms in the United States and Israel. She specializes in making technical material interesting and accessible to both technical and non-technical users.
Marlboro College, 2001
