Company Information

Colbi Technologies, Inc. is the combination of over fifteen years of school district experience in both fiscal and facilities departments, with twenty three years of proven success in development of application software, management of large scale implementations, and development of training programs.

Colbi Technologies, Inc. is dedicated to creating the best tools and services to help California’s public school facilities professionals and business officials.  Our goal is to provide a comprehensive solution to project funding and expenditure management, while simplifying the way districts generate State and Local regulatory and management reports.

Charles H. Olsen III – President

Mr. Olsen has worked in the computer industry for over  twenty three years with eight (8) years experience in the Service Industry and fifteen as a Project Manager.  Other experience includes requirements definition, management of large scale implementations, planning and development of training programs, project management of multiple concurrent projects, contract project management mentor for client’s management team, methodology selection/creation and implementation in large organizations and development of large scale project plans.  Chuck has written many Detailed Product Specifications and GAP Analysis documents and has been published in the areas of 4th Generation Programming Languages, Formalized vs. Non-Formalized Databases and Office Automation in the United States, Europe, South America and Australia.  Mr. Olsen is a past Vice President of the America Field Service Management International (AFSMI) Association.

Lettie E. Boggs – Chair & CFO

Lettie Boggs has worked for school districts in both fiscal and facilities positions since 1985.  Lettie's most recent school district position was as Assistant Superintendent of Facilities and Operations for the Anaheim City School District, a heavily urbanized, high poverty district in Orange County, California.  She has served and continues to serve on many boards and committees throughout the state of California.  This includes:

• Member of the State Allocation Board’s Implementation Committee.
• Immediate past chair of the Facilities R&D Committee for the California Association of School Business Officials.
• Board member for the Coalition for Adequate School Housing and the current and founding co-chair of the Urban Districts Committee as well as contributing member to the Legislative Committee of CASH.
• Board member of Federal Action for California School Facilities (formerly Cal-Fed School Infrastructure Coalition) advocating for federal participation in school facility funding.
• Member of the California Dept. of Education, School Facility Planning Division’s coordination committee with the Dept. of Toxic Substances Control for development of processes and procedures affecting school site selection and approval.

Lettie was an active participant in the California Dept. of Education, School Facility Planning Division’s Urban Solutions Research Project assessing urban models in California and other states for viable solutions to facility issues confronting schools in urban environments.  Lettie is an industry leader who recognizes the needs and expectations of the school district building program and has packaged her solutions to help you.

Larry Goshorn – Director of Consulting & Support

Larry Goshorn’s career spans over 25 years in building public facilities. Larry has worked in California public schools since 1986, where he opened the Facilities Department for Pomona Unified and was instrumental in passing a general obligation bond after previous failures. Since that time he has developed and implemented hundreds of projects for various school districts.

Larry Goshorn provides direct programming and facilities consulting support to Colbi clients. He developed key elements of the Account-Ability computer application, oversees installations/upgrades of Account-Ability at client sites, and supervises on-site accounting support to Colbi clients. In addition, Larry currently serves as:

• Project Manager for The Accelerated School (TAS)
  
  TAS, a nationally recognized public charter school, is building a $50 million, 100,000 square foot, 4-story K-12 school in south-central Los Angeles.
  
  Larry directed design and construction activities and was instrumental in establishing this project as one of the first to successfully implement a turnkey project delivery mechanism within Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) where TAS serves as a “Developer” for the district.
  
  
• Consultant to the San Diego City Schools (SDCS) Proposition MM Independent Citizens’ Oversight Committee (ICOC)
  
  Larry worked with ICOC members to develop the committee's governance model and approach in providing responsible citizens’ oversight of the $1.5 billion program to build and renovate SDCS schools.
  
  Over the last 4-years, Larry prepared the ICOC's annual reports to the community in addition to providing technical analysis and reports regarding labor compliance, owner controlled insurance programs, joint use of public facilities, stakeholder surveys, business outreach programs, project delivery systems, capital program reporting, and project control systems.