The people at Oxford Computer Group are professional, talented, knowledgeable, energetic, and bursting with ideas. It’s their efforts that make OCG the forward-thinking, award-winning company it is today.

OCG’s architects and consultants are level-headed, logical, straight-talking, and together share a passion for helping our clients navigate a way through their business challenges with best-of-breed technical solutions. We love learning and teaching, and we’re committed to helping our customer reach their goals.

Organizations must choose the right technology partner; we hope very much you’ll choose us. Meet some of our senior team.

Identity Parade: Meet our senior team!

Steve Brugger

Steve Brugger

CEO

Steve Brugger is the CEO of Oxford Computer Group North America. He has been in the Microsoft Partner program since its inception in 1992 and is a charter member of the MCSE certification program. He was president of SQLSoft, a Microsoft Learning partner, for 18 years and has served in senior management capacity in three other organizations who have been in the Microsoft Partner program.

Steve is a long time board member of Zeno (www.zenomath.org), a non-profit that teaches parents & caregivers in at risk communities how to engage their kids in fun ways around math to help ready them for STEM careers. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his family and loves to hike, ski, sail and fly when the weather is something other than gray and rainy.

Brian Reed

Brian Reed

Brian is the Director of Delivery for Oxford Computer Group (OCG) in the United States. He is responsible for the successful execution of programs and projects that enable our clients to conquer their business challenges. He drives new and existing partnerships and enables the OCG delivery team to continue to add value to client’s organizations. Brian works to balance staffing exposure and execution excellence for the OCG. 

Brian spent more than 20 years in large enterprise IT operations and cloud infrastructure engineering. He held leadership positions at both Intel Corporation and Microsoft Corporation, and specialized in improving operational programs and maturing the IT procurement process for many initiatives. Brian is an Operation Desert Storm/Shield veteran, having spent six years in the United States Marine Corps as a communications operator.

Brian has a B.S. in Business Administration from Capella University. When not working on technology, Brian owns a small pottery where he produces a line of handmade items which he sells through local galleries and national distributors.

 

Andy Shell
Andy Shell

Andy Shell

Vice President, Federal

Andy is Vice President, Federal and a member of the executive management team at Oxford Computer Group. He manages relationships with federal clients and leads OCG’s Identity Governance and Privileged Identity Management practices. He is a frequent public speaker on cyber security and identity management-related topics.

He has over 20 years of consulting experience with large enterprise clients. Prior to joining OCG, he held senior leadership roles in both large and small consultancies including Accenture and KPMG Consulting. Andy is a retired Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel;  during his Army career, he specialized in nation-state cyber threat analysis. He is a veteran of Operation Desert Storm (Saudi Arabia), Iraqi Freedom (Iraq) and Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan). He is a former Director of the U.S. Army Computer Emergency Response Team, the Cyber Threat Analysis Center, and is a Bronze Star recipient.

Andy has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Washington and an MBA from Arizona State University with a focus on Finance and Accounting. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

Nick Hebert

Nick Hebert

Vice President Commercial

Nick joined Oxford Computer Group in 2016 and currently serves as Vice President, Commercial and as a member of the senior management team. Nick has spent his entire career in the Microsoft Partner ecosystem and has experience with both the ISV and Systems Integrator business models.

Nick employs a modern, customer-centric sales approach to support OCG’s enterprise customers in their identity, security and governance programs. He understands the unique security risks facing enterprise IT and can articulate the complex technical solutions in a way that makes to the business.

Nick has been a featured speaker at industry events such as Microsoft Ignite, HIMSS, Gartner IAM. When not working, Nick enjoys cooking for his family and playing tennis at home in New Jersey.

Frank Urena

Frank Urena

Frank is an identity management and enterprise mobility Principal Architect at OCG. Based out of the New York Metro/Northeast Region, Frank has over 23 years of industry experience, after starting his career at a Big 4 (then Big 6) professional services firm. His core skills centered around infrastructure services (computer/network/storage), virtualization, and data center technologies.

Frank joined Oxford Computer Group in 2016 and brought his knowledge as a technology buyer and manager, which allow him to  understand a client’s business needs and how to properly implement the right technology to solve specific problems. His focus is on mobility, IDaaS, and security solutions.

Frank is an avid cyclist and enjoys playing guitar in his downtime.

Tim Watson

Tim Watson

Senior Architect

Tim has been in the IT field for over twenty years and in the Identity and Access Management space for over ten. Joining Oxford Computer Group in 2010, Tim quickly established himself as a strong implementer and coder and became OCG’s lead implementer for MIM and Saviynt projects. Tim has taken on complex projects for large organizations and is recognized by client technical staff as an expert in his field. He helps clients achieve their goals by looking for the best solutions and pinpointing precisely what it is they need. 

Robert McFadden
Robert McFadden

Robert McFadden

Senior Architect

Rob joined Oxford Computer Group in 2018 and has led many large-scale Identity and Access Management and Identity Governance project implementations. Rob is also one of OCG’s key technical consultants for Saviynt projects. He helps clients achieve their goals by looking for the best solutions and pinpointing precisely what is needed. Rob has a proven ability to plan, implement, and manage critical, large-scale projects to completion. 

Nathan Mertz
Nathan Mertz

Nathan Mertz

Principal Architect

Currently an OCG Principal Architect, Nathan’s experience in the IT and identity and Access Management space is broad. He has been the technical manager or lead on multiple Microsoft 365 migration and Active Directory migration/consolidation projects.

In his time in the IAM space, Nathan has developed custom identity connectors to Active Directory for identity management vendors. He has also consulted at Microsoft Mobile identifying and designing application solutions to migrate authentication to Microsoft Entra ID and internal Microsoft Active Directory domains.

Randy Robb Senior Consultant
Randy Robb

Randy Robb

Principal Consultant

Randy has been in the IT field for 30 years and got his start in the healthcare industry. He has worked for a variety of companies on projects ranging from programing databases for research, to designing identity management solutions as early at 1998. Randy started with Oxford Computer Group in October 2015 and has been involved in several deeply technical Identity implementations. His experience spans higher education to healthcare to small organizations.