DeAnn Porter

DeAnn Porter brings 20+ years of hands-on manufacturing and engineering-systems experience to her business-analysis work at Element Consulting. Before joining the team, she spent six years at AprilAire, rising from Product Design Team Lead to Engineering Business Systems Manager, where she owned ERP systems and drove business-process improvement across engineering. Earlier, she worked as a mechanical design engineer at IMA Automation and Roche NimbleGen. That practitioner's background is her edge: DeAnn understands the real-world processes behind the requirements, which makes her translations between business and technical teams unusually grounded and practical.