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Mercury Associates, Inc. is a leading provider of fleet management consulting services. With offices in thirteen states our staff of professional consultants has assisted hundreds of public and private sector vehicle and equipment operations evaluate and identify opportunities to improve all facets of their fleet and travel management and operating practices. Our consulting team combines years of hands-on asset management experience with more than two decades of fleet consulting experience. This combination of experience enables our clients to tackle a wide array of challenges and opportunities, secure in the knowledge that our findings will be technically sound and defensible to senior management, elected officials, and other decision makers, but also practical and "implementable." Our consultants have worked with fleets ranging in size from fewer than 25 to more than 600,000 vehicles and pieces of equipment has given us a full appreciation of the daily demands and expectations that most fleet management operations share in common, and of the operational, managerial, and political environments that make each fleet manager's job unique. We do not employ a "cookie cutter" approach to our consulting engagements. Rather, we tailor each project to the particular circumstances, needs, and objectives of our client. We are passionate about seeing our recommendations implemented, so we work hard to understand the communication channels and decision making processes through which a fleet manager must navigate if he or she is to effect real business process changes and tangible, measurable improvements in performance. The key principals in our firm are:Paul Lauria President Paul has been a transportation and fleet management consultant for more than 21 years. He has provided consulting and training services to hundreds of government, transit, utility, and corporate organizations. Prior to co-founding Mercury, he was Vice President and National Director of Fleet Management Consulting Services for David M. Griffith & Associates (DMG) and Maximus, Inc. and a Senior Manager in the National Transportation Consulting Group of Ernst & Young. A frequent speaker at industry conferences and author of numerous articles and publications on fleet management topics, Paul has worked extensively in the areas of program evaluation, strategic planning and business process reengineering, fleet replacement planning and financing, and cost charge-back system development. The clients with whom he has worked range from Walt Disney World Company to the US Army, and from the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities to the US Virgin Islands Department of Property and Procurement. Paul holds a master's degree in Transportation Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.