Epicor® Consultants | Tomerlin-ERP

Monte Tomerlin

President, CEO
Certified – Financials, Production, Distribution, and Tools
Los Angeles, CA

Monte has been an Epicor ERP consultant since 1998 when he formed Tomerlin-ERP, an Epicor ERP Consulting firm. Over the past 20+ years, Mr. Tomerlin has performed 350+ original  Epicor implementations, 100+ re-implementations, and optimizations of existing systems, and managed 125+ data migrations. He excels where others struggle in the areas of Epicor Job Costing and Epicor Job Scheduling. Job Costing and Job Scheduling are the two primary reasons many companies purchase an ERP system. To reduce WIP, reduce lead times, project realistic ship dates, ship on-time, and free up your capital for other uses, such as funding growth, Monte will properly implement and then train your staff in the correct procedures for Finite Job Scheduling.

Monte is a certified senior consultant in the production, distribution, financial, and tools modules. He also has a BA in Business and Finance from Trinity University.

Jeremiah Moore

Mgr – Customizations
Certified – Tools
Cochranton, PA

Jeremiah began custom programming Epicor applications over 18+ years ago and he is our senior programmer for Epicor® 10, Epicor® 9, Vantage®, and Vista®. He has worked with customers throughout the entire evolution of the Epicor system, from the early version of Vista and Vantage through the deployment of Epicor 10. Jeremiah has written literally thousands of custom utilities for customers of all industries.

He has in depth experience creating customized SSRS and Crystal Reports. This allows the custom forms (sales order acknowledgment, packing slips, invoice, etc) to be modified for a professional look, complete with your logos and color schemes. Jeremiah is our in-house expert on creating custom screens, fields, BAQ’s, dashboards, quick searches, BPM’s, etc. These tools help to facilitate data entry and retrieval by your end users.

Kerry Ropelato

Mgr – Prod/Distb Implementation
Certified – Production and Distribution
Ogden, UT

Kerry began implementing software 20+ years ago and launched his career in the implementation and training of Epicor ERP 10+ years ago. He has worked extensively with Vista, Vantage, and E9 products. Mr. Ropelato has a thorough working knowledge of all of Epicor 10, Epicor 9, Vantage, and Vista core modules, including but not limited to, Security, Sales Management, Job Management, Engineering, Material Requirements, Data Collection, Quality Assurance, Inventory Management, Shipping/Receiving, Purchase Management and Multi-Company.

Mr. Ropelato with his client, American Nutrition, was an active participant in the Beta testing of Epicor 9.

During his software consulting career, he has worked primarily with clients in the aerospace, electronics, food, foundry, and industrial parts industries. Kerry has primarily been a hands-on consultant with Epicor ERP products managing both implementation and training project.

Kerry is a certified senior consultant in the production and distribution modules.

Mike Marr

IT Services
Certified – Tools
Muko-shi, Kyoto, Japan

Mr. Marr has programmed in dozens of languages for enterprise-class applications for 40+ years in nearly every industry. As the data and reporting manager for Providence Health, Mike led Providence’s transition from a Crystal Reports reporting environment to an SSRS real-time, actionable-intelligence team of hospitals. The breadth of Mike’s experience means deliverables will be met while increasing customer value and reducing costs and risks in many areas of business not just limited to the task at hand. As a former Project Manager, Internal Auditor, Lead Programmer, Business Systems Analyst, Lead Data Architect, IS Help Desk Supervisor, Trainer, Presales Engineer, Configuration Manager, Enterprise Systems Development Manager, and brutal tester; rest assured, Mike’s perspective will prove very valuable.

Mike takes pride in designing and building fault-tolerant, scalable solutions. The United States Postal Service, Department of Defense, IRS, Twitter, plus many banks, manufacturers (including Ferrari), telecoms, insurers, and hospitals have solutions he developed, touching the lives of billions across the planet each day.

Mike graduated from Purdue University with a BS degree in Management Information Systems.

Mike is certified in Epicor tools.

Zarina Valdes

Financial Consultant
Certified – Financials, Production and Distribution
San Antonio, TX & Monterrey, NL, Mexico

Zarina has been a Financial Consultant for 7+ years; starting with Deloitte in Monterrey, NL, Mexico. While with Deloitte, she assisted public companies the their public filing of their IFRS adoption and Financial Statements. After Deloitte, she was hired by Epicor Software Corporation. After Deloitte, she was hired by Epicor Software Corporation to provide Epicor ERP professional financial training and consulting services for its customers located in Canada, Mexico and the United States. During that time, she worked as a financial lead, managing the financial aspect of Epicor ERP implementations. While with Epicor, she worked with more 100 customers on Epicor 9, Epicor ERP 10, 10.1, and 10.2 performing implementation and training services.

Zarina has a strong understanding of the interactions between Epicor ERP production and financial modules, while her expertise focused on the Financial Management modules including Multi-Site and Multi-Company environments. She is considered an expert with Credit Card Processing, XL Connect, and EKM.

Zarina is fluent in English and Spanish. She is trained in Mexican GAAP and financial regulations, as well as, US GAAP and IFRS; and is certified in the production and distribution, and financial modules.

Zarina is certified in Epicor production and financials including XL Connect.