About Primary Data Solutions

Primary Data Solutions is a data systems consulting company located in Springfield, Virginia. Since 1994, we have performed data processing services and developed custom data solutions to support non-profit fundraising. We have created systems for telemarketing, caging & data entry, mailshop fulfillment, donor management and other fundraising-related needs.

In 2000, we were approached by a client to develop a comprehensive donor and fundraising management system to solve the many problems that resulted from having different systems for caging, major donor fundraising, direct mail fundraising, bluebook project tracking, telemarketing and fulfillment services. Years of use and improvements resulted in a comprehensive system that elegantly handles all of their fundraising and donor management tasks. This system is now available to other organizations as PDS: Membership.

Our Staff

Dan Goodwin, President
Charles Hankey, Director of Training & Support

Dan Goodwin
President

Company President Dan Goodwin has extensive experience designing and managing donor systems, direct marketing programs and caging & data entry operations. He has experience in virtually all aspects of fundraising and campaign management. This experience brings crucial knowledge of the intricacies of direct mail, telemarketing, political campaigning, grassroots lobbying, USPS regulations, IRS nonprofit & PAC regulations and federal & state campaign law.

Lead Developer of PDS: Membership, Dan Goodwin is also a speaker at national software developer conferences, mentors other programmers on a diverse range of software projects and has authored several popular developer productivity tools.

Dan has combined his knowledge of fundraising and marketing with his skills as a developer to create systems engineered from the ground up to meet the needs of professional marketers and fundraisers.



Charles Hankey
Director of Training & Support

 

Charles has been a business consultant, application developer and corporate trainer for over twenty years. His extensive experience with a wide variety of business and their software has given Charles a deep understanding of how users interact with their computers. This knowledge has been curcial in shaping PDS: Membership into an intuitive and easy-to-use system.

Twice recognized by Microsoft with the Most Valuable Professional Award, Charles has been a popular and featured speaker at national Developers Conferences. Prior to his career with computers, he worked for various government agencies from 1968 to 1980, including work in the Middle East and Southeast Asia and as a consultant for the Cabinet Committee on International Narcotics Control. He has taught English as a foreign language, intelligence techniques, and hang-gliding. He has a degree in history from Denison University, which has never made him a dime except as a two-time Jeopardy! champion in 1990.

 

 

 

 

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