About Us

Tammy

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

Throughout her 29 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 most 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, 1995, 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 tape or CD – 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, Silver Star or Wassweiler (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 29 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

Jeff recently stepped up to become our Technical Lead and Mentor for our growing service team. You’ve heard about not wanting to meet certain people in a dark alley, well, Jeff is one that you probably don’t want to meet around a pool table. He will beat the pants off you!

He is nationally ranked in the top 50 pool players in the country (and the only one with a “real” job!). Since he joined us after returning to Montana in March 2021, he has won every championship in the state: 8 ball, 9 ball, and 10 ball. Regionally, he is the top ranked player in the northwest. In the western half of the US, he is ranked #6. Jeff’s favorite game is 8 ball, and also happens to be what he is best at, outside of being a rock star engineer! His choice of cue? Made by Jack Madden out of St. Ignatius, Montana. We’re still excited to have you on our team, Jeff, and all the invaluable knowledge you bring to us!

Grace

Grace has had a few different roles since she joined ISM in August 2017, but in February 2025, she took on the role of vCIO, which includes both Account and Project Management for our clients. As vCIO, she is the go-to for business strategy and continuity, budget planning, and consultation. She enjoys both the many rewards and challenges that come with her job description, and she truly cares about our clients and their business needs. Grace deeply believes in the roots of what ISM does, helping Montana businesses thrive.

While Grace has lived in 6 different states and moved more times than she’d care to count, she has called Montana home for more than a decade. Her favorite role in life is being a mom to her very active, dinosaur-obsessed 4-year-old son. She and her family stay busy with a small menagerie of animals, including a few horses — a little piece of Montana heaven all on their own. An avid reader and movie buff (stick around her long enough, and you will inevitably hear a movie line or three), Grace also enjoys spending quality time on Montana’s beautiful trails and waterways (on foot, horseback, bicycle, skis, or kayak), immersing herself in a craft project, or working her side gig as a professional writer and editor.

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 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-ing.” 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!

Jamie

Meet Jamie: part marketing magician, part sales sorceress, and full-time lover of fresh air and good books. With a background in wrangling brand strategies and charming even the grumpiest of clients, Jamie’s built her career helping companies shine.

When she’s not crafting killer campaigns or sealing the deal, you’ll find her homesteading like a boss. She’s equally at home in a boardroom or on a snowboard, and if she’s not working in the woods, she’s probably curled up with a fantasy novel and a strong cup of coffee (or three).

She brings creativity, grit, and a little wilderness to everything she does—and she’s just getting started.

Julie

Julie joined our team in March of 2022 as our Finance Manager. Julie was born in Wisconsin (Go Packers!) but raised in Lewistown Montana. She has called Helena “home” since 1984.

In her free time, she and her husband like to go boating and take rides with friends in their side-by-side, and after that relax by the outdoor fireplace or waterfall with a few cocktails! Julie has 2 daughters, 1 son, 4 grandchildren and 6 bonus grandchildren!

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 that is a great feeling!”

Jefferson

Jefferson is our favorite engineer (don't tell the others!) 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.

Tyler

Meet Tyler, our Service Team Lead and the go-to person ensuring we deliver our best-in-class service promise every day. Before joining ISM, Tyler found himself in banking—a career path he quickly discovered wasn't for him. Driven by his passion for technology, he made the leap, a choice we're all thankful for!

Tyler loves his role at ISM because it allows him to dive deep into technology and help people enrich their lives through innovative solutions.

When he’s not leading our Service Team, you’ll likely find Tyler reading a captivating novel (especially from "The Old Kingdom Saga"), hiking Montana's beautiful trails, or immersed in his favorite video games.