Founded in 1996 by Marie A. Benesh, Benesh & Associates is backed with 25 years of industry experience

Marie is principal of Benesh & Associates, an IT management consulting firm specializing in Enterprise Information Systems implementation and best practices. She has a wealth of experience in project assessment and consulting in PeopleSoft®, an ERP-based system. She has utilized her skills in Program Management, Infrastructure Implementation and Management, Release Management, IT/User Test Planning and Implementation within the university and corporate arenas. Her clients include major universities and Fortune 500 corporations. 

With her wide range of experience in IT management, Marie advises clients on the issues that arise in managing large-scale projects, including Program Office set up and management, and coaches project managers to be more effective leaders. She combines a strong background in technology and enterprise architecture with a natural talent for implementing the governance and people structures that make an organizational architecture effective.

Marie has implemented leading practices in software engineering for organizations, and understands the management of application development organizations.  She participates actively in groups that are focused on uncovering leading practices in IT management and in providing experiential learning opportunities for IT Leaders.

Marie's learnings are shared at conferences and have been published. She is the author of "Managing Your ERP Project", (Software Testing & Quality July/August 1999),and co-editor with James Bach and Gerald M. Weinberg of the Dorset House books, Roundtable on Project Management and Roundtable on Technical Leadership. She and is a founding member of The AYE Conference. She has apprenticed at "Change Shop," a leader's workshop in Organizational Change, led by Gerald M. Weinberg. Marie was a senior IT Manager at both Touch Technology (Arizona) and Corning Incorporated (New York), who focused her energies on leading the development and implementation of new technology.

Marie holds a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York at Potsdam and is a graduate of SEM, a year-long program focused on Systems Effectiveness Management offered by Gerald M. Weinberg. Marie has career-specific education in the following areas:

• Leadership and Organizational Change Management (Change Shop and Problem-Solving Leadership under Gerald M. Weinberg)
• Reengineering Project Management (Reengineering Implementation offered by the Center for Reengineering Leadership under Dr. Michael Hammer)
• Facilitating Organizational Change (University Associates)