• Our Current Focus

  • Bringing Drupal to the enterprise

    Aha Consulting is a corporation focused on helping private and public-sector organizations leverage the power of Drupal as their public facing web presence and internally as the framework for integrating information across departments, agencies and locations. Once viewed as just a content management system - Drupal has grown into an enterprise class application framework solution for capturing, authoring, publishing, categorizing, indexing and displaying both structured and unstructured data.  We are Drupal experts!

  • Our Background

  • Problem Solvers, leaders, strategists, web consultants

    Our founders came from large global consulting organizations such as Andersen Consulting, Accenture, Deloitte, IBM,  and Oracle.   We have worked with private, public-sector, and non-profit organizations that span all industries.    We have a unique ability to quickly grasp an organization's problems, identify a solution, and execute a project plan that incorporates the right mix of technology, process, and organizational change. 

  • Our Skills

  • Program and Project Management

    We bring world-class program and project management disciplines, processes and experience to the table This is one of Aha's core strengths.

    Strategy and Planning

    Our team includes principals who have led the strategy formulation and planning activities for several multi-billion dollar organizations.

    Branding and Creative Design

    aHa teams with creative partners to assist our clients with marketing, branding and creative design.

    Information Architecture

    Information architecture is another core strength.  Our team’s approach to information architecture ensures that the right content is available at the right time, in the right format to address your diverse community of users’ needs.

    Analysis, Design, Development and Deployment

    Aha Consulting covers both traditional web application development as well as a primary focus on web content management and eCommerce solutions.   Our team has extensive experience in developing and delivering solutions in Java, PHP, .NET, Ruby, Python and other best-in-market tools and languages.

    Application Management, Support, and Hosting

    We understand that our clients are often focused on running their business.  Aha offers various levels of on-going application support, web support, and hosting – based on the specific needs of each client.

  • Company History

  • Going strong for eight years

    Our organization was founded in 2002 as Opensolutions Partners with a focus on delivering enterprise-class web solutions to public and private sector clients.    In 2008 Opensolutions Partners merged with Fenway Technology Group – rebranding the merged organization as Aha Consulting, Inc.
     

    We are based in Lake Oswego, Oregon, which is 10 miles south of Portland. We are currently serving clients in 7 states.

  • Our Team

  • Experienced and approachable

    Our 5-member core team performs the brunt of our client work, and we get help from select partners when needed.


    Brian Gilday - Founder and President

    Brian is a former Big 5 consultant with Deloitte Consulting.  He has led engagements large and small with budgets ranging from $5,000 to $50M covering a wide spectrum of web and other technologies.
     
    Brian holds a BS in Computer Science with distinction from the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, MD) and an MS in Computer Information Systems from Boston University.  Brian has also served as an Associate Professor at MIT and Boston University.  Brian has a knack for staying cool under pressure, insulating his team from distractions, and allowing them to stay focused on achieving the end goal.

    Brian understands how to architect a Drupal-based solution with the best of them, and he usually finds ways to steamline an internal business process or two along the way.