TriCera Management

Mr. Ronald Winalski

TriCera Chairman & CEO

Mr. Winalski, a U.S. Army (Ret.) Command Sergeant Major, has over 28 years of experience and works on consulting and research projects in multiple sectors. He is especially valued for his effectiveness on complex multidisciplinary projects and analyses requiring skills at synthesizing information from diverse sources and creative problem solving. Mr. Winalski has conducted numerous projects evaluating program effectiveness and program benefits as well as best practices. He has managed or conducted program and institutional assessments, institutional strengthening, program management and implementation, program evaluation, applied economic analysis, regulatory and institutional analysis, policy analysis, and interdisciplinary research and analysis. He has significant experience with in-depth interviewing and conducting qualitative interviews with program staff, participants, and stakeholders. Mr. Winalski has particularly strong writing skills and has extensive experience in analysis, interpretation, and reporting of data. He has authored numerous reports, guidelines, planning manuals, briefings, and training and outreach materials for clients as well as program stakeholders. He has managed projects ranging from large multi-task, multi-year assignments to specialized in-depth analytical studies to quick-turnaround analyses.

Dr. Daniela Brancaforte

TriCera President and Director of Research

Dr. Brancaforte has 15 years of experience conducting qualitative research and analysis on military culture and military family programs. Her strong social science background provides methodological expertise in qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, developing interview guides, surveys and facilitating focus groups for process mapping. She has led and managed consultant teams, as well as served as primary researcher and author on multiple DoD projects including family programs for both the Army National Guard and the U.S. Army Reserve. Her research and consulting experience have focused on socio-cultural and organizational assessments within corporate, institutional, military and government organizations.

Mr. Lee Hojnicki

TriCera COO

Mr. Hojnicki retired from the U.S. Army after over 20 years as an Air Defense Artillery and Human Resources officer. He began his work in industry supporting the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command. Immediately following the terrorist attacks on our Nation on 11 September 2001, he was a key participant of the operational planning cell that developed the strategic air defense plan for the National Capital Region and other high value national assets and critical infrastructure. Capitalizing on his extensive Air and Missile Defense background and his Command and Control Interoperability expertise, Mr. Hojnicki has since worked on the Single Integrated Air Picture, a Foreign Comparative Test effort, and two Joint Test efforts. Mr. Hojnicki’s extensive Personnel and Human Resources background has enabled him to work on personnel policy issues at both the Department of the Army and the Department of Defense.