Management Team

Dean Arden Riddle (Chief Executive Officer) is a member of the bars of Texas, Georgia and North Carolina. He received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981 and 1985. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Dallas Bar Association and the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers. He was chairman of the Homeowners' Rights Committee in 1994. Mr. Riddle has served on the Board of Directors of the Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of the Community Associations Institute (CAI) and served as its President in 1994. He has written and lectured extensively on the topic of litigation for community associations at the state and national level. As an active member of CAI, Mr. Riddle has served as a delegate to the Texas Legislative Action Committee from 1993 to the present and has actively participated in drafting proposed legislation affecting planned communities.

Lance E. Williams (Chief Financial Officer) was admitted to the bar in Texas in 1986 and was also admitted to practice before U.S. District Courts in the Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas. He received his B.S./Management (magna cum laude) degree in 1983 from Oral Roberts University and a J.D. in 1986 from Southern Methodist University. While in law school, he was awarded the American Jurisprudence Award in Torts, Business Associations and Evidence. Mr. Williams is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Dallas Bar Association, and the Community Associations Institute, where he has conducted industry seminars and workshops and been actively involved in drafting proposed legislation affecting planned communities. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of CAI and is a member of the Property Owners Association Committee of the State Bar of Texas.

Lauren C. Williams (President) received her B.A. from Louisiana State University in 1990 and obtained her American Bar Association Post Graduate Paralegal Certificate in 1993 from Southeastern Paralegal Institute. Ms. Williams has worked as a senior paralegal for one of the leading community association law firms in the country and one of the leading insurance defense law firms in Texas. Her interest in technology led her into the technology field where she gained valuable experience in the use of mission critical software to solve business challenges with such companies as Computer Associates International. She also was a member of the sales team which opened up the Midwest Division of a technology company in Chicago, Illinois. Ms. Williams has lectured extensively regarding the use of technology to improve the services attorneys and managers provide their community associations.

Patrick M. Steil (Chief Technology Officer) holds an Associate of Science in Computer Science degree from the Panama Canal College, Panama City, Panama, which is among a select number of schools accredited by the United States Department of Defense. Prior to 1994, Mr. Steil worked for International Business Machines (IBM) where he held the position of OS/2 Base Operating System Consultant. In this position, Mr. Steil was one of only a handful of consultants within IBM that were called upon to resolve mission critical issues with the OS/2 operating system for IBM’s highest profile clients, including First Interstate Bank (now Wells Fargo & Company), NationsBank, Norwest Bank, First Bank of Minneapolis, The Limited, Chicago Tribune, Anderson Consulting, and Dillard’s. His responsibilities required a comprehensive knowledge of software design and functionality, both on an individual application basis and on an enterprise level basis, to ensure compatibility of customer designed applications with the OS/2 platform. 
   
In 1994, Mr. Steil formed infraNET®, a software design and consulting firm. Since its inception, infraNET® has been committed to serving both large and small business in the area of web based applications. Among its clients include First Interstate Bank (now Wells Fargo & Company), TexasBank (now CompassBank), and OneSource Global (http://www.onesourceglobal.com). In an effort to allow its clients a robust way to secure their web based applications in either an Intranet or Extranet environment, infraNET® created a proprietary software known as iiFramework®. This software ensures that all pages of a website are "secured" unless specifically granted access to a user by the developer through the use of security roles. This use of roles as a security model provides great flexibility to the user in securing access to web pages – from an entire page down to a specific piece of text on a web page.

In 2003, Mr. Steil joined forces with the principals of Collectronics, Inc. to develop and market a web based application called CollectMinder® for use by attorneys in the fast growing community association field of law. CollectMinder® is a collaboration of the web secure technology created by Mr. Steil and the extensive legal background of the other principals of Collectronics in the field of community association law. CollectMinder® is now the benchmark web based assessment collection application for attorneys across the country in this area of law.

Mr. Steil has written and lectured extensively on the topic of Application Frameworks. His most recent review of this technology appears in ColdFusion Developer‘s Journal http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/41990.htm. Mr. Steil is also the past President of the Dallas/Ft.Worth ColdFusion User‘s Group where he held this position for eight years.