Our Team 
Patty Rund | President, CFO
Patty's leadership and financial management have guided PAQ through its first decade. This helps our clients by relieving the need to push rapid-fire, project-to-project. We bid on the work and then spend the time to get it to the clients' satisfaction.
Quentin Rund | Senior Consultant
Quentin manages PAQ's web development services for our agribusiness and ag organization clients. He is the primary contact for web site design and production, user surveys, and focus groups, usability testing, and client training. Quentin is an experienced GIS analyst and trainer of ArcView GIS and ArcMap software from ESRI. He coordinates with crop researchers on experimental design and analysis. He works with businesses on general data analysis, sales tracking, equipment logistics and customer/market studies.
Quentin received his B.S. (1988) in Agriculture Science from the University of Illinois and M.S. (1996) in Technology Training and Development from Eastern Illinois University.
Jeremy Jones | Computer & Networking Tech Support
Jeremy provides tech support and systems maintenance for PAQ and our local customer base. Jeremy has a unique blend of technical skills and communication skills which enable him to solve problems and explain the solution.
Michelle Morgan | Marketing/Public Relations
Michelle's ease in communicating puts our clients at ease and gives them a reason to call. Michelle makes sure our websites operate as promised with alpha and beta checks on design and usability.
Ryan Williams | GIS Analyst and Programmer
Ryan provides GIS and analytical services to our clients. Ryan is a Certified GIS Professional (GIS-P) and has several years of experience working with local and regional governments. Ryan has also had training in environmental science and experience performing research in the field and analyzing data in the office. Ryan provides his talents to organize and analyze complicated datasets and provide GIS development and mapping services to our clients.
Ryan received his B.S. in Geography (2000) with emphasis on Natural Environmental Systems and GIS from Northern Illinois University.
Lindy Carlisle | Web Developer and Designer
Lindy joined PAQ to assist in the development, design, layout, and production of websites. Her background in business and managament information systems has allowed her to participate in the phases of a web development, web maintenance, as well as other business interactions with clients. Lindy graduated from Eastern Illinois University with her B.S. in Business Networking Technologies.
Tom Gardner | Programmer
Tom develops and maintains PAQ's new breed of custom online development packages. Tom's area of expertise is in content management systems, and database driven websites.
Marion Morris | Programmer
With a background in open source programming and graphic arts, Marion takes an innovative, artistic approach to web development. Marion specializes in the design of customized, interactive database-driven web applications with an emphasis on user-friendliness, scalability, and reliability. She is an active contributor in many open source projects, and thrives on finding or creating new ways to think outside the box and make web sites more engaging. She received her degree in Visual Communications from the International Academy of Design & Technology in Pittsburgh, PA.
Nate Baxley | Redsill
Nate coordinates programming and database maintenance for PAQ as well as evaluating new technologies and tools for PAQ and our clients. He also manages the technical teams for our larger projects. Nate has a long history in web site and software development. He worked in corporate IT and in consulting before coming to PAQ. He is heavily involved in the requirements gathering phase of project development and will be there to answer any technical questions the customer has.
Nate received his B.S. (1997) in Management Information Services from the University of Illinois
Laurx Design | Web & Print Design
Mary Laurx with Laurx Design provides PAQ with professional graphic design skills. Mary has worked as a freelance graphic designer since 1992. Mary has 18 years experience in the design and production of brochures, catalogs, newsletters, magazines and business-to-business advertising. She also writes advertising copy and press releases.
Mary earned a BA in Journalism with an emphasis in Advertising from Northern Illinois University.