Executive team
Pura A. Stalnaker
Chief Executive Officer
Ms. Stalnaker graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree with Honors (Cum Laude) from University of Houston. She has been involved in the government contracting industry for over two decades and has worked for major companies such as IBM and Allied Signal. Upon moving to Maryland in 2009, Ms. Stalnaker founded Banner Quality Management Inc. (BQMI).
Ralph Bevilacqua
Program Manager
As the NASA Safety Center (NSC) Technical Services Support 2 (NSCTSS2) contract Program Manager, Mr. Bevilacqua is responsible for all technical, administrative, and management aspects of the NSCTSS2 contract providing his leadership to over 50 personnel in supporting the NSC as it fulfills its mission objectives to support and improve NASA’s Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) posture. Ralph has nearly 40 years of hands-on technical and managerial experience in private industry including 25 years at NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) and 15 years in the Healthcare IT industry.
Joe Homan
Area Manager
Joe Homan is the Digital Services Area Manager for BQMI on the PACE IV contract at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) John Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. He is also the project lead and programmer/analyst for the NASA Environmental Tracking System (NETS). He has been supporting the NETS project and environmental reporting requirements for NASA for 20 years. He has been a contractor at NASA since 1988 supporting the OCIO. Previously, he held positions for the Internal Revenue Service in Cleveland, Ohio.
Gail Hall
Vice President of Corporate Administration
Gail Hall is the VP of Corporate Administration for BQMI. She is responsible for corporate support functions including Human Resources, Accounting, Procurement and Contracts. She has been supporting BQMI since 2014. She has been a contractor at NASA since 1989 working for small business contractors. Her educational background includes a B.S. from Oklahoma Panhandle State University in Accounting and Computer Sciences. She is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Texas.
Mike Harper
Deputy Program Manager
Micheal Harper is the Information Technology Group Lead for BQMI and Deputy Program Manager on the NSCTSS2 contract at the NASA Safety Center. For over 10 years Micheal has supported the NASA Safety Center. He has nearly 20 years at NASA supporting the Safety & Mission Assurance directorate in many facets of IT, including IT project management, network and systems administration for web applications as well as FISMA and NIST IT security administration. Micheal spent 2 years helping Diebold, Inc. build their IT security department by instituting their first ever IT security policies and training and awareness program. He is a Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM), a CMMI Assessment Team Member and an ISO 9001 Internal Auditor. A United States Air Force veteran Micheal holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Phoenix.
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