About Us
Mission StatementWe provide Common Sense Solutions to individual's and organizations to help them define goals and objectives. Plan to achieve them, measure key performance indicators and achieve goals and objectives.
Our Recommendations Should always...• Make sense for the customer
• Be easy to understand and beneficial • Tell the truth - We never compromise ethics or integrity |
Our TeamGerard Daché
Founder and President of Common Sense Solutions Gerard founded Common Sense Solution sin 2005. He started as a CMM Assessor, Lead Assessor, and ultimately became a CMMI High Maturity Lead Assessor until 2017. In addition to personally delivering training, consulting, and assessment services he has established a network of contacts in the public and private sector around the world. Today he works with policy makers, administrators, and innovators at local, state, national, and international levels. He has been invited to speak at the United Nations, the US Capitol, the Emirates Palace in the Middle East for global audiences. Today he focuses on using innovative technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, digital assets. and Web3 to find solutions to public sector problems. Mr. Dache is aloes the Executives Director of the Government Blockchain Association and is one of the authors of the Blockchain Maturity Model (BMM). He has established over 50 working groups and manages the delivery of training and assessment services for BMM assessments globally. Paul Orton Chief Operating Officer Early in his career, Mr. Orton served as the Director of Quality for several Small Business 8(A) Federal Contractors in the DMV area. His responsibilities were to define corporate Process and Software Lifecycle Control Program, providing objective verification and validation of project compliance with corporate project management lifecycle (PMLC). He facilitated Process Improvement Groups, defining and continuously improving PMLC from inception. Mr. Orton managed process for three CMMI appraisals, coordinating gathering of appraisal evidence data, validating evidence against the model through appraisal readiness reviews, interacted with projects to complete PIID data, and coordinated activities of appraisal team members to support successful completion of appraisals. He scoped and implemented the efforts to achieve ISO 9001:2000 / ISO 9001:2008 registration audit and CMMI Level 3 appraisal. After his career on the Federal contracting side, Mr. Orton decided to join Common Sense Solutions and become a process improvement expert, focusing on helping organizations achieve Process Improvement goals based on industry proven models. He has become an experienced process improvement professional with a track record of assisting businesses to implement, maintain, and improve corporate quality programs and operational lifecycles, internal audit programs, and continuous process improvement programs. Over the last seven years, Mr. Orton’s has had successful experience with implementations of ISO 9000, ISO 20000, ISO 27000, CMMI-DEV and CMMI-SVC models. Mr. Orton focuses on helping organizations institutionalize quality management systems driven by metrics and achieve the highest results based on the customer needs. |