About Us

Tammy

CXO (Chief Experience Officer), a.k.a. The Real Boss!

Throughout her 25 years here at ISM, Tammy has held about every position imaginable: Founder, Owner, Manager, Finance, Operations, Party Planner – pretty much whatever role she’s ever needed to be in!

Born in Missoula and raised in Helena, Tammy is proud to have called Helena home for the majority of her adult life, as have her parents who still reside here.

Tammy is the proud momma of two wonderful ladies, Tanya and Megan, and an EXTREMELY proud grandmother (grandson Jaxson), who’s she’s lucky to have close by.

Tammy has always been the heart of Information Systems since it’s start on February 15th, 1994, as well as several local businesses in the past. If you grew up in Helena in the 90’s or 2000’s and ever bought a music album – chances are you remember Tammy from the legendary Music-To-Go!

Outside of ISM, you’ll find Tammy traveling, quilting and drinking wine, spending time with friends, visiting wineries – or locally, enjoying her favorite dinner at On Broadway (and drinking wine?).

To say Tammy is an integral part of ISM would be such an undersell – we simply don’t have enough room here to talk about what she has done in her 24 years here, and continues to do here for our business and workplace. Thanks a million, Tammy!!

In turn, Tammy would like to mention how fortunate she feels to have the team that we do here at ISM. “Couldn’t do it without all their dedication and hard work! They all rock!”

Jeff

CXO (Chief Experience Officer), a.k.a. The Real Boss!

Jeff was born in Butte, but has lived in Bozeman, Kalispell, Ennis and Helena. He attended Helena College of Technology where he gained the knowledge he has about IT and networking. When he's not busy at work, Jeff loves playing golf in the summer and billiards in the winter. He's actually one of the top 50 pool players in the entire nation!

What Jeff loves most about his career is the constantly learning, problem solving, and interaction with awesome clients.

Jeff is our Senior VoIP engineer, having worked with many VoIP Systems. He also is very knowledgeable in servers, virtualization and cloud applications. He is the man that the team looks to for technical advice and mentorship!

WAY TO GO, JEFF! We're all happy you're part of the ISM team!

Grace

Grace has been our Inside Business Development Lead since August 2017, and in early summer 2021, also took on the role of Account Manager. She truly cares about our clients and their IT business needs. Grace came to ISM after working for the City of Helena as a 911 Dispatcher, so there isn't much that seems very daunting after having a job like that!

Grace, her husband, and their son, reside in Helena. They keep busy with a couple of horses, two cats who think they run the place (typical!)

She has been to 49 states and 4 countries so far, and is planning on adding to that list soon! She's a loyal Green Bay Packers fan, and her favorite movies are Lord of the Rings, Father Goose, The Princess Bride, and Disney's Emperor's New Groove (among others). Grace is a nerd at heart, so it's only fitting that she works for an IT company.

She loves her job at ISM, and is extremely thankful to work with such a great team!

Aaron

At a glance, Aaron appears as an ordinary human being – but if you’ve had the pleasure of meeting Aaron, you now know that’s not the case.

Growing up in Missoula, Aaron cultivated his love for the local requisite activities of floating rivers, raising chickens, geocaching, hiking with his two pugs (both loud and overly confident), and tasting local microbrews.

While initially attending the University of Montana for a degree in Sociology, it wasn’t long before his nerdom won out. A self-proclaimed professional couch potato and tech nerd, Aaron is in his natural setting when surrounded by computers, video games, and what others commonly refer to as “tech junk.”

While daylighting as our Network Operations Center Lead, it may come as a surprise that you’d most likely find Aaron locked in his garage, when not in the office.

Here, he exercises hobbies of wrestling wrenches, grease, cars, and motorbikes – commonly know as “mechanic-in.” Aaron insists he employs many of the same troubleshooting and problem solving skills here in the garage, as he does in the office.

Aaron made the move to the Electric City in 2015 to pursue his career in IT, and joined ISM in March of 2018. If you can’t tell, Aaron is an absolute blast to work with. His sense of humor is matched only by his technical skills – thanks for everything you do Aaron!

Rachael

We welcome Rachael Pecora to our team. Rachael was born and raised in Helena and is our newest Service Desk Technician. She previously worked at AZTS and joined our team to grow her technology knowledge. She says she is most excited about working with a tight knit group of people and reaching her full potential in this field. She’s an avid Star Wars and Lego’s aficionado, in fact Lego Darth Vadar sits next to her desk. As with any of our nerds, she plays video games quite a bit but loves to camp and travel with her fiancé and experience new things. Say hi to Rachael next time you talk to her.

Julie

Help us welcome Julie Massaro! Our new Finance Manager. Julie has some big shoes to fill with Connie leaving, but we don’t have any doubts that she can fill them! Julie was born in Wisconsin but raised in Lewistown Montana moving to Helena in 1984. Prior to ISM, she worked for 28 years at Student Assistance Foundation and then few years in different accounting departments.

In her free time, she and her husband like to go boating and take rides with friends in our side-by-sides, and after that relax by the fire pit with a few cocktails! Per Julie “What excites me about ISM is how well the entire team works so well together to get the job done! I’ve never felt more like an actual team member than I do now and it’s a great feeling! I’m a die-hard Packers Fan…..I have to be….I was born in Wisconsin, and my husband took be to my first game at Lambeau Field 3 years ago.” Juile has 2 daughters, 1 son, 3 grandkids and 6 bonus grandkids.

Jefferson

Jefferson is our newest engineer covering advanced workstations, servers, cybersecurity, backups, etc! If he doesn’t know, he’ll learn it! He gets excited to learn new things, processes, best practices, and meet new people. You’ll find him extremely pleasant to talk to on the phone.

Speaking of learning new things, he is most proud of teaching himself how to make a website from scratch when he was still in college. Since they didn't teach website creation, he decided to learn it and helped finance his college education by building websites.

Jefferson is from Cebu, Phillipines, known as the Queen of the South Philippines. The Cebu metro area is over 3 million people in population, and sees over 2 million foreign tourists annually.

Before ISM, Jefferson worked for a technology team that filled in when other technology teams were short-staffed.

Welcome to the team Jefferson!

Sky

Sky is from Helena and proud to call this historic little town home. Sky is our new Client Services Coordinator and he’ll work directly with clients to ensure that they’re well cared for.

“I’m truly excited to help find positive solutions to the issues that our clients experience. I am always up for a good challenge!”

When Sky isn’t working, he enjoys hiking, golfing, and camping. By far though, his biggest passion is painting, and he is involved in Helena’s community of creatives. Back in the day, Sky was also a sought-after DJ in this neck of the woods!