About Us

Hector Ortiz

CEO, Founder

Hector is one of our Co-Founders and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Though he began his career in Spanish translation and interpretation and crisis hotline counseling, his ability to help people handle a crisis made him a great fit for the technology arena. Now, with close to 25 years of experience in managing technology at high-growth companies and organizations, he serves as our operations visionary and leader. He lives for using IT to serve his mission driven clients and their goals. He’s a huge fan of building strong teams and culture and is proud of our team’s unique talents and hard work. He’s known for his empathy, forward thinking and team building. In addition, he’s passionate about workplace diversity and inclusion and social justice. Outside of work, you’ll find him working out, finishing carpentry projects and spending time with his wife, two kids and two dogs.  

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Morrison Haas

vCIO, Senior Project Manager

Morrison is one of our vCIOs and our Senior Project Manager. With 12+ years of experience in IT, he manages and oversees the centralized and professional services departments. He lives for cutting edge technologies and finding ways to incorporate them it into any many client’s environments as possible. He’s known for his understanding, empathy, calmness, and thoughtfulness. He’s passionate about social justice and is a foodie at heart. He spends his free time cooking, gaming and enjoying the rich tradition of comics and graphic novels.   

Jose Paulino

vCIO

Jose is our Senior Tech Alignment Manager. With a deep love for learning and keen understanding of tech, he lives and advocates for strong alignment with compliance and security posture for our clients. He excels at grasping the overall picture and then drilling down to locate issues and their causes. He’s known for being lively, reliable, fierce and focused. It’s obvious that he was always destined for technology since he spent an entire weekend glued to the first computer his dad brought home. He enjoys the pro-learning, always challenging and incredible team work at Dega. On a larger scale, he’s passionate about civil rights, gender equality and animal welfare. In his spare time, you’ll find Jose taking his dog on long walks, watching movies and training in Muay Thai kickboxing.

Ashley Chavez

Operations Manager

Ashley is our Operations Manager and Jersey Girl. A Monmouth University Graduate, with a background in healthcare management and Event Management, project coordination and culture development, Helping clients feel seen, heard, understood and cared for, is something she is very passionate about especially when they’re struggling with tech or communication issues. She’s known for her honesty, promptness and approach. She’s passionate about economic equity regarding healthcare, living wages and student debt. As well as inspiring whom she encounters to live life to the fullest. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, the beach, hiking, and creating memories with her friends and loved ones.

Joan Beltre

Escalations Engineer

Angie Sanchez

Project Coordinator