Mr. Gruba is an Application Developer with 10+ years of experience managing infrastructure and application code for businesses with hundreds of users. His main focus is on streamlining business processes, scalability, and performance. Mr. Gruba is responsible for delivering architecture guidelines for web, mobile, and desktop deliveries, designing new and innovative solutions to challenges in the company, and providing support and results in the On-Premise services to the cloud including the infrastructure and networking design.

Dr. Parikh has over 15 years of experience implementing HBSS technologies, specializing in integrating modules with third-party systems as well as integrating multiple Agency systems. He was involved with implementing VTCLI projects across multiple states and the product management of electronic fare cards, consumer apps and portals, driver apps, and our scheduling system. Dr. Parikh earned his PhD from the University of Massachusetts in 2006 completing his thesis on “Availability and Connectivity for a Hybrid RF/FSO Airborne Network” while working on a project for MIT Lincoln Labs, and an MS in Electrical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where his thesis was “Traffic Metrics for Adaptive Routing.” Dr. Parikh gained valuable experience in data mining, analysis, and models during his research work in Internet traffic engineering.

Ms. Chaturvedi joined HBSS in May 2021with 23 years of work experience in diversified industries including Information Technology, IT Sales, project management, business development, and education. As Director of the HBSS RFP Team, her responsibilities include streamlining the Request for Proposal (RFP) submission process and managing client interactions post-RFP submission, and contract negotiations post award. Ms. Chaturvedi holds a double Master’s Degree in Computer Science & Information Technology from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield (CT) and a Master’s in Business Administration from India.

Jim is an experienced transit professional with 9 years experience in implementations, project management, sales and consulting. He has personally spearheaded over 125 implementations, visited over 200 transit agencies, and been part of a statewide transit scheduling software project with 50 deployments. Additionally, he has been involved in sales to both large urban and small rural transit agencies during his career.

Cornelius joined the QRyde marketing team as in July of 2022 and  has worked directly with QRyde customers to ensure training and technical support for customers in Mississippi and Georgia since April of 2019. He has a history of working in the non-profit organization management industry and is quite skilled in customer service, leadership, and community outreach. He is a strong program and project management professional with a bachelor’s degree focused in Sociology from Tougaloo College in Mississippi.

Dan has been involved in over 90 onsite software implementations across the US and has learned from this ‘boots on the ground’ experience rapidly in the last 5 years. He brings a transit mindset and a driver/dispatcher focus to the table during development meetings and will be a direct link between our quality assurance team and QRyde users.

He has been working in the transit sector since 2018 and is the son of his home county’s local paratransit dispatcher. With that in mind, he is always ready to help and improve transit for everyone – from rider to stakeholder and everyone in between. He holds an English and American Literature degree from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of Rowan University in New Jersey.

Mr. Kelly joined HBSS in July 2021 where he is a proposal writer/editor on the RFP Team responsible for helping to draft/edit proposals in response to both State and U.S. Government Request for Proposals and Grant opportunities, as well as interacting with customers during both the pre-award proposal demonstration/evaluation phase and in the initial, post-award deployment phase. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Villanova University in Pennsylvania, and completed PhD courses and exams at the Graduate Institute of Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland.

Breyonia joined QRyde in August 2021 as a Technical Support Specialist, and later got promoted to Technical Support Manager. In this capacity, Breyonia assisted QRyde customers in identifying support issues, recording issues into actionable support system tickets, and helping customers navigate QRyde support services. Breyonia’s technical understanding of the QRyde software system and her deep understanding of customer support issues, has been critical to her new role as a Business Development Representative. Her work with the Business Development Team has been in outreach for customer prospects, working on product messaging and prospect follow-up communication, and in performing discovery research for prospective clients.
Breyonia has a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology and Criminology from Mississippi State University, and she is working toward completing her master’s in social work from Jackson State University in Mississippi.