Meet the 4Clicks Team
We’ve walked in your shoes working in the industry, which is why we are driven to continually listen to your feedback and offer real world solutions that meet your changing needs. It’s what sets us apart and makes the difference in how we deliver our products, training, and services that you can only experience with 4Clicks Solutions.
Michael Brown
Founder and President
My cost estimating and project management career literally began in the trenches over 29 years ago as an Airman at the United States Air Force. My first duty assignment was the United States Air Force Academy. It was here I learned about plumbing, backflow preventers, gas distribution, fire protection, worked in Planning; and with the SMART team. It was at the SMART team where I was introduced to construction: changing thousands of feet of cove base, hanging drywall and painting, wallpapering, even running a little conduit and operating some heavy equipment. I spent a year in the KUN at Kunsan AB, Republic of Korea, worked in the plumbing shop, planning, and then the self-help store, and was proud to be a Red Devil and learn what war games were all about!
In 1989, I moved to Luke Air Force Base and wanted to try something new. So I asked if I could be in SABER, it was brand new to the Air Force and looked like an exciting job. There I realized I had a knack for estimating as well as bad handwriting and I created my first estimating software program called JOC-EZ. It was among the first Air Force SABER estimating software of its kind. My thanks to Colonel Descheneaux and Kobashigawa for their trust, confidence and allowing me to work in SABER.
I then moved into the civilian workplace. As a Project Engineer, Project Manager, Director of Estimating and then Director of Information Services I helped a small 8(a) contractor company grow from 3 contracts a year to 30+ in a few short years. During this time, I developed another estimating software program called iqEstimator. Initially, creating my own software was my solution to handwritten estimates but with the increased contract volume we experienced, it didn’t take long to realize that we could do more work, in less time, and with greater accuracy than any manual method.
In 2001, my hands-on experience with being an estimator and creating estimating software shaped the foundation of 4Clicks Solutions.
I’ve been blessed to travel extensively demonstrating my product and have enjoyed meeting many exciting people from Contracting, CE, DPW, AE’s, Contractors and Subcontractors, some of whom are still clients and great friends.
Jeff Slarve
Senior Software Developer
Soon after leaving the Air Force, I realized that I needed even more programming ability. So I sought out and partnered with one of the foremost programmers in the field, Jeff Slarve. Jeff is our lead programmer for both e4Clicks and p4Clicks. Jeff’s ability to efficiently transform theoretical ideas into real world implementation is one of the key reasons that our software truly is unparalleled.
I first met Jeff in the early 1990’s and we had talked about working together. Around the mid 1990’s we began working together. The first app was for sending bulk pages, back before everyone had cell phones! A software program to roll up the company data from all the project sites and a property management program called iqCM then followed.
Amy Rader
Technical Support Manager
I met Amy through Jeff Slarve. Amy has worked with me since 1998 while I was at Beneco. Amy has watched our software develop from DOS to windows, from single user to network. Amy manages our customer and technical support and is very customer service oriented. She enjoys the people who work in the world of estimating, describing them in her own words as “a really great group of people… friendly, flexible and wonderful at giving constructive feedback, suggestions and wishes”.
We have always believed strongly in customer service and of providing a live voice for technical support. Amy has run Technical Support since the company’s launch. Our clients continually praise her for her help and insight. Amy also plays a major role in determining our clients’ needs and proposing program enhancements, while also applying her expertise to write and manage our incredibly extensive Help files.
Tom Cassidy
Chief Operations Officer
In 2003, I met Tom Cassidy, truly my right hand man, while working with the Peterson AFB SABER Team. Tom is a licensed professional engineer with 10+ years of design, estimating, and project management experience at Peterson AFB.
As a key part of the 4Clicks Team, Tom uses his experience to develop and manage our training programs and plays a key role learning what new software features our clients require.
Peter Cholakis
Chief Marketing Officer
I first worked with Peter Cholakis while he was with RSMeans/Reed Business as a Senior Consultant. Peter managed corporate partnerships encompassing the integration RSMeans’ industry leading reference cost data into OEM and Owner software applications. Peter joined us, because “More people need to know about JOC and 4Clicks! 4Clicks is the best product out there, has a great team, and JOC is the most efficient construction delivery method for facilities repair, renovation, and sustainability.”
Peter also played a central role at VFA, Inc., where he helped to define CPMS (Capital Planning and Management Solutions) and effectively brought this important process based solution to market across large building portfolios owner in the federal, state, higher education, and K-12 sectors.
Peter brings us exceptional domain knowledge and expertise in facilities lifecycle costs and total cost of ownership applicable to multiple market segments. For example, as a seminal thinker on TCO (total cost of ownership) applicable to construction and facilities industry, Peter drove the creation of a definitions and metrics document among the Federal Facilities Council (FFC), APPA (Higher Education Facility Executives) , the National Association of State Facilities Administrators (NASFA) and the International Facilities Management Association (IFMA).
As Chief Marketing Officer for 4Clicks Solutions LLC, Peter leads corporate communications and product development efforts where he leverages his broad based knowledge of facilities life-cycle management and his ability to deploy robust business processes via collaborative internet-centric technologies.
His focus is extending our capabilities and growth providing cost estimating and project management software.
Bruce Sarty
Director of Training and Sales
I am very excited to be able to make Bruce part of the 4Clicks team. While he is the newest member of our 4Clicks team, he is far from new to DOD construction project management, or to using 4Clicks software!
Bruce, retired United States Air Force, has a career spanning over 30 years of construction, preventive maintenance, project management, and training in the DOD and private sectors.
Just for starters, Bruce has used e4Clicks Project Estimator since 2001 as well as applied all aspects of RSMeans Reference Cost Data and methodology. He has served as Deputy Base Civil Engineer in the Philippines, SABER Project Manager at March AFB in California, and in the private sector as Operations Manager for a multi-million dollar contractor/construction management firm successfully directing and supporting all aspects of multiple JOC/SABER and IDIQ projects from RFP to completion.
Please join me in welcoming Bruce. We all look forward to him sharing his knowledge and assisting Tom in making our already awesome training programs even better!
Today, 4Clicks is a leading developer of project management and estimating software serving thousands of clients including Department of Defense facility owners, AE’s, contractors, and subcontractors, as well as many non-DOD federal, state, and local government clients.
So, that’s our story. I hope it helps explain where we come from and why we can honestly say our products are “By Estimators for Estimators.” It’s our real world experience and responsiveness to your feedback that allows us to offer solutions that help you meet the changing needs of the industry.
Don’t take our word for it. Over 70% of U.S. Air Force Bases, numerous U.S. Army Posts, and other government installations currently use e4Clicks Project Estimator.
It’s been an incredible journey that we are very thankful for, and it would be an honor to partner with you as part of our growing list of clients.
Sincerely,
Michael Brown, Founder and President
