Our Team

Dave Mckay — Chief Executive Officer

Dave joined Murphy, McKay in early 1996 with a mandate to redirect its focus from computer equipment sales and service to IT consulting services. 

With twenty-five years experience in business management beginning with an international consulting firm and leading to CEO positions with three successive, rapidly growing organizations he brought a high level of passion to this challenge.  That passion was to insure that clients received the best advice and support relating to Information Technology, a function of their business he knew from experience could be either a significant lever to profitable growth or an obstacle. 

With the changes in technology since 1996, organizations increasingly had the possibility to level the playing field with their much larger competitors.  Often, however, they did not have the internal resources or knowledge base to take advantage of those opportunities.  Our goal was to be a resource to these organizations and work with them as business partners, bringing appropriate, cost effective technology to advance their business.  We did not want to be viewed as technology vendors, but rather as solution providers. 

We have worked very hard to insure we attract and train outstanding technical people who combine those strong technical skills with a passionate desire to communicate in understandable language and to make technology approachable and useful to management and users.  Our clients tell us we are succeeding in that objective.

Tim Murphy — President, Founder

Tim started Murphy, McKay & Associates in 1992 with the objective of building a firm to support clients’ throughout the Bay Area.  The original focus of system repair and maintenance offerings quickly evolved into the model we support today of multi tiered Consulting Services.

Tim has spent the last 16 plus years of successfully growing MMA by drawing upon his experiences in the services industries that have made up his career. Tim has been employed be several large organizations during his career. He was an executive at Exxon, Control Data, Pacific Telesis, and Nortel Communications with a variety of jobs most of which involved direct client support or managing groups that faced the clients.

Most of the jobs he held with these firms began with startups that later became part of the larger organizations mostly due to acquisitions. It was this exposure that set the foundations for his venture into the entrepreneurial experience that is now MMA.

Mike Binder — Chief Operating Officer

Mike is currently the newest partner and Chief Operating Officer at Murphy McKay & Associates driving the technical consulting and augmented services of the company.   

Mike started his career in business consulting and Human Resources in 1984 as the employment manager for the Hilton Corporation.  From 1986-2000,  as President  of Key Resources Inc led the company to one of the fastest growing privately held companies in 1997  placing Key Resources on the Inc. 500 list.  Key Resources Inc. continued to be named in the San Francisco and East Bay Business Times for over 10 years. In 2000 Mike successfully completed the sale of Key Resources Inc. and continued with the new company in an executive capacity until 2008.  Mike has served on the executive Board of Directors of the California Staffing Professionals.  He has held the State Treasurer and Vice President roles. 

Al Silva — Vice-President Consulting Services

Al has worked in the computer industry for over a decade. He began by assisting in the support of a campus network by solving the hardware failures and software application user issues.

As an IT manager for a catalog company, his network expertise improved the company’s network stability and his database management skills provided cost savings routines in their customer information system. Also, he planned and executed a successful systems move to a different location, this included both the network and telecom services.

As Project Manager with Murphy, McKay, he has designed & implemented many NT networks. This included a global NT network that consisted of several nodes in the US (San Francisco, Portland and Boston) and Europe (Denmark, France and Germany). The client requested he go to Europe for the implementation to insure a quality installation.

As Operations Director, he is helping the team fulfill the company’s mission -- to provide our clients with elegant, technical solutions to their business problems. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Computer Information Systems. He holds Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA) certifications. He also has Cisco, Octel Voicemail and HP product certifications.

Aaron Loomis — Senior Project Manager

Aaron Loomis Aaron has worked in the computer industry and with Murphy, McKay & Associates, Inc. for over 13 years.

Aaron began as a field technician, troubleshooting and repairing PC’s and printers. He then progressed into operating system and business applications software, which gave him all of the tools necessary to provide superior desktop support.

Aaron has also performed multiple systems relocations and has supervised many of the major relocations performed by Murphy, McKay. As a Project Manager, he has designed, implemented and upgraded Windows NT/2000 networks, and has planned and implemented Windows 2000/XP Professional rollouts and migrations. He has been involved in such projects as Novell to Windows NT/2000 migrations, the migration of various mail platforms to Microsoft Exchange as well as WAN design and implementation.

Aaron is responsible for maintaining the networks of clients that do not have on-site administrators and is also a liaison to the on-site network administrators of other clients. As one of Murphy, McKay’s top engineers, Aaron provides assistance to fellow engineers on advanced technical issues and shares his growing experience as a consultant to his peers. Aaron has an A.A. degree in Computer Electronics and holds certifications from Citrix, Microsoft and Veritas.