About
Syrock provides practical insight to businesses, enabling them to become more efficient, effective, and profitable. We immerse ourselves in your business so that we fully understand your unique needs and goals and can prioritize the areas of focus to align with your business objectives.
We offer on-demand, flexible services ranging from business process and strategy to specific technology projects. Our consultants develop plans to strengthen your internal capabilities and assist your company in preparation and planning for ongoing change.
Our Team
Each member of our business process team has more than 30 years of experience in business strategy, process improvement and project management. Our technology specialists have over 15 years of practical experience in their fields and a rich technical knowledge base.
Senior Management
Dave Kerney
Dave is an executive and a leader with 30 years of experience in business strategy and development, business process and process implementation. He has successfully built collaboration between diverse business units within organizations that he’s founded and for which he’s been employed.
As President and Founder of ColdCypress, with a minimal investment, Dave grew the company to a multi-service IT consulting firm, and in year five, led the acquisition of a local Pittsburgh IT firm. In year seven, he architected the sale of his firm to Konica Minolta.
Prior to ColdCypress, he spent seven years at XiTech, a 200-person multi-city IT consulting firm where he built an application development practice, managed several multi-million dollar projects and eventually led XiTech’s many service divisions, including over 100 engineers.
Dave holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.
Bob Farrell
Bob has more than 25 years of experience improving business processes and procedures using technology to increase quality, value and time-to-delivery. Bob is a business professional who provides consultation, leadership and execution of enterprise-wide solutions.
As a strategic thinker, he has the ability to envision the future while executing short-term objectives in a changing business landscapes. Bob is problem-solving oriented with the demonstrated ability to influence direction outside of a defined span of control.
With business experience in big data analytics across verticals such as manufacturing, finance, healthcare, retail and airline operations, Bob also has a solid background in security, hardware, operating systems, development frameworks, databases, information retrieval and analytical tools.
Throughout his career, Bob has held various positions in systems architecture and design, software engineering, systems and process implementation, operations research, project management, leadership and operations.
Bob holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, from Penn State University.
Carl Humes
Carl is a seasoned executive and leader with more than 25 years of experience as a management consultant, COO and CIO in a variety of industries including technology, consulting, construction, education, and software development in both public and private companies. Carl focuses on delivering business strategy and development, business process and process implementation, and consulting to our clients. He is highly adept at rapidly understanding critical business issues and making a positive impact quickly in all areas of business operations.He has held critical senior executive roles completing both IPO and merger and acquisitions activities on both the buy and sell sides of the table. Carl also spent nearly 10 years in the US Navy serving as a Nuclear Submarine Officer and Emergency Operations Officer directly for the President of the United States.
Carl holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Temple University with advanced graduate studies in the areas of engineering, technology, finance, and management.