Staff

Michelle Budzek, President, has worked with diverse non-profit organizations that provide housing and services to low-income, homeless, and often disabled persons throughout Cincinnati and the country.  She blends a unique perspective of advocacy, policy and regulatory experience, and administrative expertise in the assistance she provides directly to non-profit providers of services and housing, to government entities she contracts with, and to HUD as a national technical assistance provider.  For fourteen years she was the developer and facilitator of the inclusive Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care (CoC) for the Homeless process.  Michelle is a member of the Ohio Interagency Council on Homelessness and Affordable Housing, a founding member and former chairperson of several state and local Coalitions for the Homeless, and serves on multiple other boards and commissions.  Her work history also includes the development, fund acquisition and management, and administration of a non-profit service housing organization, as well as direct work with those she strives to serve as both a parish organizer and a street/community organizer.  She has worked with the community to plan, organize, and effectively change the system to better serve those in need in the community.

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David Durkalski, Senior Software Developer, began work in the non-profit technology sector in 1995.  Since then, David has: led the development of nine separate client tracking database applications and the SOPHIA information and referral databases which were shared by more than 50 non-profit organizations / collaborations; provided computer/network technical support and planning to 79 different non-profit organizations; and developed the first version of the Virtual Electronic Service Tracking Assistant (VESTA) for the Family Shelter Partnership Program (FSPP).  VESTA and the FSPP were the basis for development of VESTA:HMIS, which serves as Hamilton County's HMIS software. In addition to VESTA:HMIS, David worked on a development team to create two spin-off products, VESTA: Mercy Health Partners and VESTA: Goodwill.   His other work experience includes:  Co-oping at the NCR Corporation, which involved technical support, research and development, and software development; and software development at Sarcom, Inc. with placement at GE Aircraft Engines, which focused on statistical analysis software development for a team of six engineers.

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Molly McEvilley, Database Administrator, has worked on the development of VESTA, a web-based client tracking database application that serves as the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) for Cincinnati / Hamilton County, since 2002.  She is a Microsoft Certified Visual Basic Developer; in addition, she is a SQL Server database administrator and a Microsoft Access database application developer.  At various points in the process of developing VESTA and implementing HMIS in Cincinnati, she has served as business analyst, software developer, database administrator, data analyst, project manager, researcher, technical writer, trainer, quality assurance supervisor, and technical support.  She has also been a speaker at HMIS conferences sponsored by HUD and the National Human Services Data Consortium, and has served as an HMIS consultant for the National HMIS Technical Assistance Initiative.  Prior to working in the field of non-profit technology, Molly was an Arabic linguist/cryptologist for the US Air Force, and received certification from the Defense Language Institute in Modern Standard Arabic.

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Sandy Goheen joined the Partnership Center in the Spring of 2009.  She brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in both the information technology and non-profit sectors. Sandy has worked on a wide variety of system implementations across several industries in the business sector, including Retail, Finance, Human Resources, and Defense.  Prior to managing projects, she worked as a systems analyst and programmer with Accenture and IBM. As an advocate for foster children and at-risk kids, Sandy has also worked with local organizations to help with outcome measures and identifying ways to use data to improve services.

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Dennis Pattinson joined the Partnership Center in the Summer of 2009.  He obtained his Master's Degree in Education in 2000 and taught for 7 years in both Kentucky and Cincinnati schools.  Most recently, he worked with a property management company, obtaining his real estate license in 2007.  Utilizing his teaching background, Dennis trains new VESTA users, provides on-line and telephone user support, and monitors HMIS.

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Livia Fabryova joined the Partnership Center in 2010 as the Administrative Assistant for PCL to help the organization run smoothly.  Livia is originally from Slovakia in Europe.  She obtained her Master's degree in translation and interpreting in 2007.  Her specialization was English language and culture along with her mother tongue, Slovak language and literature.  After graduation she worked for the City of High Tatras, a little town in the High Tatras mountains in Slovakia, as a representative for foreign affairs.  She represented the city at international conferences, exhibitions and trade fairs.  She also translated promotional materials into English and provided interpretation services for foreign business people and ambassadors.