Our Professionals

Committed and Experienced
 

Executive Management

 Charles J. Kathrein

Founder, Chairman and CEO, Mustang Technologies Group..

 Mr. Kathrein has more than 25 years experience working in Asia and more than 40 years experience in the Communication, Information Technology, Logistics and Maintenance Management sectors.

 Mr. Kathrein is a retired United States Marine Corps Major and a Vietnam War veteran.  Prior to his retirement from the Marine Corps, he was a program manager for the U.S. Navey/Marine Corps Maritime Prepositioned Ships (MPS) Program.

In addition, he is a former college professor, a former IT consultant/project manager, and has held senior executive positions with a major ERP solutions provider and a leading enterprise application tool provider in the Asia Pacific Region.

 Mr. Kathrein is also an Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Maryland, University College Asian Division, a guest lecturer for the Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore and Fudan University School of Management, and he has been a presenter at Asian Business Forum Conferences.

 Mr. Kathrein holds a Master of Science in Systems Management from the University of Southern California, a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Roosevelt University, and a Certified Public Accountant Certificate from the University of Illinois.  He is a member of the Project Management Institute, Thai Institute of Directors, and International Who's Who of Professionals.

 Mr. Kathrein is past Governor, American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand, and past Chair, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Committee, American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand.  In addition, he serves on several Boards of technology companies in Asia.

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Senior Technical Management

Mike Grandin

Software Engineering Manager  

Mr. Grandin is responsible for quality delivery of software projects.  His duties include project management and software architecture.  In addition he serves as coach and mentor for team technical leads and software engineers in Mustang Technologies' Offshore Software Development Centers (ODC).

Mr. Grandin has been a software engineering professional since 2000.  He has acquired programming skills in C, C++, Perl, .NET (C#), Python, J2EE, MySQL, MSSQL and Oracle, ColdFusion, HTML, Javascript and shell scripting, PHP, XML and XSL.

 Since joining Mustang Technologies in Bangkok early 2004, Mr. Grandin has been a software developer, Team Technical Lead, Project Manager and Software Architect.  He has delivered projects for clients in the USA and Canada.

Mr. Grandin holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from Colorado State University.

Software Engineers

 Mustang Technologies has a network of nearly 400 IT professionals in Laos, Philippines, Thailand, USA and Vietnam.

All Mustang Technologies professionals (employees and contractors) have signed 'Confidentiality and Invention Assigment Agreements'.

All Mustang Technologies professionals are university graduates with accredited English abilities. 

Mustang Technologies values IT certification.  Many of our software engineers hold certifications from Microsoft, Sun and Oracle.