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John Rich, Executive Director
David Johnson, Chief Financial Officer, Utility Fund Manager
Rick McKeever, MAACLink Support Specialist
Shelly Hartman Stroessner, Homeless Case Management Coordinator
Stephanie Pruitt, Database Administrator, Implementation Manager
Joe Coburn, Database Administrator Manager
Joseph Gryka, Database Administrator Manager
Elizabeth Bejan, Database Administrator Manager

John Rich Executive Director		John was named Executive Director of MAAC in October 2006. John has over 12 years of experience in the nonprofit sector with community based agencies involved with low income and underserved populations. His experience includes six years in community based health clinics in Missouri, Kansas and Illinois including two and one-half years as an agency Executive Director. Most recently, John has worked for a local community social services agency in the greater Kansas City area involved in welfare to work, before and after school child care, child care provider training, health issues, and other youth, senior and family issues. John has an MBA in Management/Finance from the University of Santa Clara in Santa Clara, CA.

David Johnson Chief Financial Officer, Utility Fund Manager		David is MAAC's Chief Financial Officer. In this role, he provides the fiscal management of the organization. As the Utility Fund Manager, David utilizes his accounting expertise to professionally manage the allocation, tracking, and evaluation of the seven MAAC-managed utility assistance funds. David joined the MAAC staff in December 1998.

Rick McKeever MAACLink Support Specialist		Rick is responsible for maintaining the hardware and software on personal computers in the MAAC offices and on the personal computers at the sites of agencies that participate in the MAACLink computer network. He sets up new agency users and provides on-going technical support to the MAACLink partners. Rick began at MAAC in December 2002.

Shelly Hartman Stroessner Homeless Case Management Coordinator		Shelly joined MAAC in December 2006, she is an MSW most recently working as Victim Assistance Coordinator for Johnson County DA’s office. Shelly has a wealth of social service knowledge and has experience working with poor and homeless. Previous experience includes work at Crosslines in KC, KS and with City Union Mission.

Stephanie Pruitt MAACLink Database Administrator		Stephanie is the MAACLink Database Administrator. Stephanie is responsible for MAACLink implementations, database issues and administrative training for all MAACLink users. She is a graduate of Rockhurst University and previous experience includes work for Sprint and IBM.

Joe Coburn MAACLink Database Manager		Joe joined MAAC in July 2008 as a Database Manager and is responsible for assisting with MAACLink implementations, support, database issues, and training for all MAACLink users. Joe graduated with his Bachelor and Master of Social Work degrees from the University of Kansas. While completing his studies, Joe had internships with several nonprofit agencies in Kansas City.

Joseph Gryka MAACLink Database Manager		Joseph joined MAAC in August 2008 as a Database Manager and is responsible for assisting with MAACLink implementations, support, database issues, and training for all MAACLink users. He served for a year in the AmeriCorps as an Employment Specialist and before that taught English to refugees in Cairo, Egypt. Joseph graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa with a degree in Political Science.

Elizabeth Bejan MAACLink Database Manager		Elizabeth joined MAAC in September 2008 as a Database Manager and is responsible for assisting with MAACLink implementations, support, database issues, and training for all MAACLink users. She is a Master's level Social Workers and has recently supervised the Katrina Aid Today Case Management Program thorough the Salvation Army.