About Us

Tammy

CXO (Chief Experience Officer), a.k.a. The Real Boss!

Throughout her 29 years here at ISM, Tammy has held about every position imaginable: Founder, Owner, Manager, Finance, Operations, Party Planner – pretty much whatever role she’s ever needed to be in!

Born in Missoula and raised in Helena, Tammy is proud to have called Helena home for most of her adult life, as have her parents who still reside here.

Tammy is the proud momma of two wonderful ladies, Tanya and Megan, and an EXTREMELY proud grandmother (grandson Jaxson), who’s she’s lucky to have close by.

Tammy has always been the heart of Information Systems since it’s start on February 15th, 1995, as well as several local businesses in the past. If you grew up in Helena in the 90’s or 2000’s and ever bought a music tape or CD – chances are you remember Tammy from the legendary Music-To-Go!

Outside of ISM, you’ll find Tammy traveling, quilting and drinking wine, spending time with friends, visiting wineries – or locally, enjoying her favorite dinner at On Broadway, Silver Star or Wassweiler (and drinking wine?).

To say Tammy is an integral part of ISM would be such an undersell – we simply don’t have enough room here to talk about what she has done in her 29 years here, and continues to do here for our business and workplace. Thanks a million, Tammy!!

In turn, Tammy would like to mention how fortunate she feels to have the team that we do here at ISM. “Couldn’t do it without all their dedication and hard work! They all rock!”

Jeff

Jeff recently stepped up to become our Technical Lead and Mentor for our growing service team. You’ve heard about not wanting to meet certain people in a dark alley, well, Jeff is one that you probably don’t want to meet around a pool table. He will beat the pants off you!

He is nationally ranked in the top 50 pool players in the country (and the only one with a “real” job!). Since he joined us after returning to Montana in March 2021, he has won every championship in the state: 8 ball, 9 ball, and 10 ball. Regionally, he is the top ranked player in the northwest. In the western half of the US, he is ranked #6. Jeff’s favorite game is 8 ball, and also happens to be what he is best at, outside of being a rock star engineer! His choice of cue? Made by Jack Madden out of St. Ignatius, Montana. We’re still excited to have you on our team, Jeff, and all the invaluable knowledge you bring to us!

Grace

Grace has been with ISM since August 2017, and is our Inside Business Development Lead and Account Manager. She is also our Project Manager, and enjoys both the many rewards and challenges that come with her job description. She truly cares about our clients and their business needs, and enjoys being a part of the ISM family. Grace deeply believes in the roots of what we do, helping Montana businesses thrive.

While Grace wears a few hats at ISM, her favorite role in life is being a mom to her 3-year-old son. She and her family keep busy with several animals, including a couple of horses, on their own little piece of Montana heaven in East Helena. A movie buff and a nerd at heart (stick around her long enough, and you will inevitably hear a movie line or two), it’s only fitting that she works for an IT company.

Grace’s other hobbies include hiking, cross country skiing, snowboarding, horseback riding, and as well as an avid reader. She’s also had a side-gig as a professional copy editor for more than 20 years, and is working on her first novel, as well as a couple of children’s books. Perhaps you’ll see her published works on shelves soon!

Aaron

At a glance, Aaron appears as an ordinary human being – but if you’ve had the pleasure of meeting Aaron, you now know that’s not the case. Growing up in Missoula, Aaron cultivated his love for the local requisite activities of floating rivers, raising chickens, geocaching, hiking and tasting local microbrews.

While initially attending the University of Montana for a degree in Sociology, it wasn’t long before his nerdom won out. A self-proclaimed professional couch potato and tech nerd, Aaron is in his natural setting when surrounded by computers, video games, and what others commonly refer to as “tech junk.”

While daylighting as our Network Operations Center Lead, it may come as a surprise that you’d most likely find Aaron locked in his garage, when not in the office.

Here, he exercises hobbies of wrestling wrenches, grease, cars, and motorbikes – commonly know as “mechanic-ing.” Aaron insists he employs many of the same troubleshooting and problem solving skills here in the garage, as he does in the office.

Aaron made the move to the Electric City in 2015 to pursue his career in IT, and joined ISM in March of 2018. If you can’t tell, Aaron is an absolute blast to work with. His sense of humor is matched only by his technical skills – thanks for everything you do Aaron!

Rachael

We welcome Rachael Pecora to our team. Rachael was born and raised in Helena and is our newest Service Desk Technician. She previously worked at AZTS and joined our team to grow her technology knowledge. She says she is most excited about working with a tight knit group of people and reaching her full potential in this field. She’s an avid Star Wars and Lego’s aficionado, in fact Lego Darth Vadar sits next to her desk. As with any of our nerds, she plays video games quite a bit but loves to camp and travel with her fiancé and experience new things. Say hi to Rachael next time you talk to her.

Julie

Julie Massaro joined our team in March of 2022 as our Finance Manager. Julie was born in Wisconsin (Go Packers!) but raised in Lewistown Montana. She has called Helena “home” since 1984.

In her free time, she and her husband like to go boating and take rides with friends in their side-by-side, and after that relax by the outdoor fireplace or waterfall with a few cocktails! Julie has 2 daughters, 1 son, 4 grandchildren and 6 bonus grandchildren!

Per Julie “What excites me about ISM is how well the entire team works so well together to get the job done! I’ve never felt more like an actual team member than I do now and that is a great feeling!”

Jefferson

Jefferson is our newest engineer covering advanced workstations, servers, cybersecurity, backups, etc! If he doesn’t know, he’ll learn it! He gets excited to learn new things, processes, best practices, and meet new people. You’ll find him extremely pleasant to talk to on the phone.

Speaking of learning new things, he is most proud of teaching himself how to make a website from scratch when he was still in college. Since they didn't teach website creation, he decided to learn it and helped finance his college education by building websites.

Jefferson is from Cebu, Phillipines, known as the Queen of the South Philippines. The Cebu metro area is over 3 million people in population, and sees over 2 million foreign tourists annually.

Before ISM, Jefferson worked for a technology team that filled in when other technology teams were short-staffed.

Welcome to the team Jefferson!

Sky

Sky is from Helena and proud to call this historic little town of Helena home. Sky is our Service Manager/Client Services Coordinator, and he works with our team and clients to ensure that they’re well cared for.

“I’m truly excited to help find positive solutions to the issues that our clients experience. I am always up for a good challenge!”

When Sky isn’t working, he enjoys hiking, disc golf (he attends quite a few tournaments around the region) , and camping. By far though, his biggest passion is painting, and he is involved in Helena’s community of creatives.