Our Story
Founded by Wes Gruber and Jon Winer in 2017, Onion River Consulting was created to bring top level solutions to small- and mid-size organizations looking to solve challenges ranging from strategy creation to fractional CTO leadership, webapp development to cloud infrastructure migrations, and product management to team resource augmentation. By bringing together decades of experience at all levels of technology and non-technology businesses, ORC was purposefully built to provide clients with thorough and holistic solutions that comprehensively consider their ideas and implement solutions that are intelligent, scalable, and most of all, valuable.
Meet Our Leadership Team
Wes Gruber
Founder, CTO
With 20 years of experience in the IT industry, Wes Gruber has built and scaled numerous teams from the ground up, establishing new disciplines and best practices in startups and mature organizations. Wes has led the creation and management of local and offshore teams, trained teams in Scrum and Agile practices, mentored teams and technical leaders, and continues to be a passionate advocate of DevOps practices, cloud solutions, and scaled systems.
Wes’ motivation for boiling complex problems and systems down to their essential components in order to create actionable plans is a core value of his and a pillar of Onion River Consulting.
Listening to the latest Tiny Desk concert, playing piano, experimenting with the latest kitchen gadgets, and getting outside and connecting with nature stimulate Wes when he's not consumed with analyzing complex systems.
Olivia Johnston
Principal Product Manager
Olivia Johnston is the Principal Product Manager at Onion River Consulting where she focuses on product excellence and creates products customers love. Olivia has spent her career building products by breaking down complex problems into simple, delightful experiences. Olivia has launched next-generation products for North America's largest grocery and digital retail chains and regulations-focused insurance products for automotive while establishing the foundations of product thinking on her teams.
Olivia is also active in promoting Product Management in her community and is currently the co-chair of the first Product Meetup in Vermont.
Company Values
Foster the Spark
A new idea can grow when its urgency is nurtured and promoted. Committing to listening and approaching problems differently kindles the spark of growth.
Teach and be Taught
Everyone has something to teach you. We learn from and teach through the interactions we have and the people we collaborate with. Embrace continuous improvement in all opportunities.
Be Human
Celebrating the human spirit creates happy, healthy people and happy people bring creative, innovative solutions to life.
Passion for Excellence, Because it Matters
Determination is that feeling when by all other standards the job is done but you strive for something more; “acceptable” is the starting point and “exceptional” the destination. Excellence inspires raving fans and loyal collaborators.
Creating Value is the Foundation
Value is created by making a difference. Evaluate how your actions make an impact, move the needle, affect the bottom line and be part of something bigger.
Our Advisors
We believe continuous learning is key to continuous improvement - and that we learn best when we surround ourselves with trusted advisors. We appreciate their experiences and honest candor in helping us stay true to our mission.
Here are the brilliant minds that help us excel.
Jon Winer
Kristin Winer
Jesse Kunicki
Richard Westman
Rick Ross
Eric Allard