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

President

Steve Brugger is the president 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.

 

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.

Andy Shell
Andy Shell

Andy Shell

Vice President, West Region

Andy is Vice President, West Region and a member of the executive management team at Oxford Computer Group. He is responsible for client relationships in the western half of the United States 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.

Nathan Mertz

Nathan Mertz

Senior Architect

Currently an OCG Senior 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 Office 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 Azure Active Directory and internal Microsoft Active Directory domains.