LSI Outsourcing was created in 2002 by five founding partners – each committed to the success of our clients.

LSI, CEO, is a co-founder of LSI Outsourcing.  He is a twenty plus year veteran of implementing technology solutions - both internally in three of the world’s largest and most profitable organizations - and also as an outsourcer for companies in the top sectors and industries in the world.  LSI was an architect and implementer of one of the world’s greatest turnaround stories when he helped BofA, the world’s thirteenth largest company, turn a billion dollar annual loss into a billion dollar a year profit in just three years. 

   LSI was born in Europe and has lived and worked in Brazil, Mexico, England, Germany, France, Japan, India, Malaysia, Canada and the US.  He has managed over 52 products and advanced technology developments and introductions and has helped improve or turn around divisions of and/or companies like General Electric, Compaq, Citibank, Bank of America, Wipro, and Cadence Design Systems.

   These experiences enabled LSI to envision and create LSI.  He detected a fundamental need today to marry and integrate the efficiencies and brilliance of internal domain and industry knowledge and talent with the agility, competence and high technology expertise of external talent from the best people in the world.

   Today 99% of companies try a solution either internally, or externally, when the best solution is in fact a combination of the two.  This is where LSI with its “Best of Breed” solutions and methodologies is the differentiator.  Every company in the world is trying to sell its talent and/or products; but very few listen to the customer, understand their priorities and make the client’s priorities their own. It is here that LSI excels: our client priorities become our priorities. We are not trying to sell something, we are listening and solving. 

   We know that our sole existence is predicated in listening to the customer, understanding their need/request and implementing the solution requested fast, cheap and well, utilizing the best of breed from the client’s and external people.

Vita Tenerelli, President and Chief Human Resources Director, founder of LSI Outsourcing is a native of Los Angeles, California and an industry veteran in human resource development and people optimization.  Behind every opportunity and/or problem there is a person.  Technology by itself does not work without a person behind it.  Vita, a teacher and HR specialist by profession daily deals with engineers of different countries who face language, cultural adaptation and functional business/engineering challenges.  With the enormous advances in computers, telecommunications, and technology and the economies of scale of globalization, Vita foresaw the challenge of an engineer from a foreign culture working with a domain/industry person in the USA.  She saw the challenges embedded in diverse people who are self accomplished in technology but lack or are faced with daily challenges in communication, culture and productivity due to cultural, religious, heritage and linguistic differences.  Her methodologies and training in these disciplines benefited several people in the past to overcome and succeed working together.  Vita has 2 children, is married for 30 years and lives in Los Angeles, California.

Athina and Alexander are our "the Russians are coming with love of course" team. They provide a solution to outsourcing and insourcing to whoever wants to build a GDC in Russia or Ukraine and taking advantage of the high quality enginnering education and practice they possess. Russia is the "last" wild, wild west in the outsourcing front left in this earth. 

Michael Wakim is the head of High-Speed Board Design and FPGA group.  Mike a young Engineering veteran of 23 years in Computing and Telecommunications from MIT, to Bell R&D, Westport Tech., Cadence Design Systems and now President of Fidus.

Robert Aparicio is the head of ASIC and FPGA group.  Robert is a 27 year Young Engineering and beach veteran of Santa Barbara from UCSB Electrical Engineering school, to Digital, Delco Electronics, Cisco/Stratacom, Cadence Design Systems/Tality and now President of SanBar.

Shiva a brain behind a 10,000 engineering talent resource in India.  He specializes in sourcing skills/experience and fitting to customer project team requirements both inhouse and offshore. Including Microsoft and specialized technologies like .NET, Progress, Oracle, SAP, ...

RP is the head of BPI, business process in-sourcing.  A Big 5 India veteran, and an expert in setting telemarketing centers for lead generation, qualificaton, data warehousing and mining.  As well as setting back offices in collections, customer service, loan processing, servicing and other BPI processes.

AS, is the head of Testing, Quality, E-commerce and Legacy systems.  "Mr. Mysor" is our friends call him, ASM is a 25+ year veteran of Wipro and SEI/CMM level 5 process.

Jorge Roberto, our Brasilian dynamo.  Jorge is President of RealVeritas, and heads our Strategic Planning division in Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.  Jorge is a lawyer, MBA and metallurgic engineer, him and Esmeralda live in Brasil.

Jay Bartelstone. One of our most important associates.  Jay is a Managing Director for over twelve years of The Private Financing Group.  To those companies who need funds to build their companies and/or big projects this can be a solution.  Jay has headed TPFG and in this capacity he assists companies in their strategic and capital planning efforts, capital attainment and ongoing management oversight.  Jay has a broad and diverse management background, having held a number of Senior Executive positions in the financial services industry, including the supervision of an array of domestic and international banking operations at Citicorp, New York.  He was responsible for the direction of the investment management, trust and private banking operations at Union Bank, Los Angeles, and held the positions of CEO and Vice Chairman of Columbia Bank and the Bank of Los Angeles respectively.  Jay has held the President/CEO operating position of an early stage Technology Company and currently serves on the Board of Directors for a number of High Technology Companies.  He is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and received his M.B.A. with an emphasis in Finance from Fordham University in New York.

LC is a co-founder of the “Best of Breed” Insource and Outsourcing Company, LSI.  Serving as the Chief Operations Officer, (COO) LC, a 20 years veteran of the world's number 1 bank, has in depth experience in three critical industries in today's changing economy.  He is an accomplished businessman, operations and management leader who is able to solve customer problems.  LC manages the company administrations in additions to his client duties.  His leadership included responsibility for over 625 staff members.

Mohan S., a personal friend and graduate of MIT, Madras Institute of Technology, with degrees in Physics, Electronics and Communications.  Mohan a 8+ years veteran of Wipro is co-founder of KSPL and has 20 years experience n software industry that span design, development and support.  Singlehandidly he built a 600 outsourcing engineering team for Nortel.

Sal T. is the Chief Project Engineer and a co-founder of LSI.  Sal has been involved in software development for 20 years. He has worked in the Aerospace industry as team lead and project manager on projects ranging from very small-scale embedded systems to very large-scale systems. He has worked for some of the major US Aerospace firms including Lockheed-Martin and Northrop Grumman. 

   He holds a BSEE from California State University at Los Angeles and MBA with emphasis on Technical Management from the University of Phoenix.

   Sal has the unique ability to listen to a customer’s problems and technology challenges, understand them, and formulate solutions that employ practical business and technical principles.  As our resident Chief Engineer Sal oversees and manages all projects, engineers, and client requirements.

Carter Smith is the Chief Information Officer and a founding partner of LSI Outsourcing.   Throughout his 30 year career Carter has shown a unique ability to understand the crux of a business process, to utilize the best of technology and management techniques to improve that process, to quantify the project’s costs and benefits, to obtain funding by preparing a clear business proposal, and to minimize risk by putting together successful implementation teams.

   As head of IT research and planning for a major bank, Carter was responsible for managing a project portfolio of over $100m.  Following a successful on-budget $25m Y2K effort, he championed the bank’s move into the web era with major new API, B2B, B2C, and international trade systems. 

   Earlier he was a national and international consultant in Information Technology and bank operations - developing work and profitability models that saved client’s millions and doubled Citibank's Credit Card profits.  Carter began his career in aerospace where his computer models led to Boeing’s expansion in the commercial market place and the termination of a strike by 50,000 machinists. 

   His education includes a B.S. in Physics from MIT where he worked with Claude Shannon (considered the father of modern digital communications and information theory), an M.S. in Statistical Mathematics and a Ph.C. in Computer Science from the University of Washington where he did pioneering research in Artificial Intelligence.