leadership team

Our leadership team has been providing high-end engineering services for the past 25 years. Our complete staff of seasoned and technology oriented engineers provide the right combination of experience and skill sets to meet the high demand placed on our industry.

MCIS has successfully refined its engineering and project management skills to accomplish complete turn-key projects for a strong list of sophisticated, well recognized and very demanding clients. Our on staff resources, tools and processes ensure we exceed our client’s expectations.

Paul D. Gates (Chief Executive Officer)

has significant business experience in telecommunication, information systems, energy, and power production. He has over twenty years utility experience with project management and the integration of hardware, software, communication, and information systems.

Rue S. Hestand IV, M.S.E.E. (President and Chief Operating Officer)

holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering specializing in RF/Microwave Communications as well as minors in Computer Science and Mathematics. Rue has over ten years of design and management experience in all phases of communication technology including RF Engineering, antenna design, wireless, and GPS, integration as well as extensive computer programming development in those fields.

Paul W. Wood, B.S.E.E., (Controller)

holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering. Paul has 10 years of experience in project engineering, financial management and contract administration.

Kenneth R. BuShea, P.E. (Vice President)

is a professional engineer with over 30 years of practical experience in engineering, construction and project management. Ken is founder and chairman of TEAMWORKnet, Inc., (sister company of MCIS, Inc.) a registered professional engineering company for the past 25 years.

Harry J. Tittel, E.E., (Senior Project Engineer)

has ten plus years of experience with engineering studies including power distribution, lightning protection, grounding systems, short circuit, relay coordination, load flow, power quality and harmonic analysis.

Thomas E. Ashline, P.E., (Senior Project Engineer)

has significant experience with detailed field engineering including project startup, system troubleshooting, and final commissioning of engineering systems.