Core Performance Concepts Inc.

Our passion is connecting people in business, government, and non-profit organizations, helping them collaborate and share ideas that have value to people so that we can all perform better.

We help individuals understand and implement core concepts that improve their work and personal performance. We help organizations improve the competence of their employees and create positive employee attitudes. We connect people who may find a way to collaborate. We help both individuals and organizations prepare to excel based on the leadership and management demands of the future.

Janice Y. Preston, MBA, CPA, PMP

Janice Preston has been managing projects for more than 20 years in industries as diverse as real estate, financial services and the PC industry. Ms. Preston has been a principal with Vista Performance Group since 1991, consulting in project management for information services, health care, financial services, pharmaceuticals, and automotive. Some of her clients include Boeing, Countrywide, Nissan, Balboa Insurance, Allergan, Computer Sciences Corporation, Capital Group Companies, and Southern California Edison.

In 2002, Ms. Preston was the Finance and Risk Manager for the Southern California Risk Management Symposium in Long Beach, CA. Prior to starting her own company, Ms. Preston was the General Manager of a ValCom Computer Center franchisee. While at Arthur Andersen & Co., she specialized in audits, manufacturing projects and cost accounting for clients such as Turtle Wax, Abbott Laboratories, Northwest Industries, Honeywell, and ITT.

Ms. Preston has an MBA with an emphasis in Finance and Accounting from the University of Missouri. Her BA is from the University of Central Florida. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and PMP. She is the Program Coordinator and an Instructor in project management at the University of California Irvine and received the Dean’s Outstanding Service Award.

Ms. Preston is a member of PMI and was the Region II Director of the Risk Management SIG. She is a Fellow of PMI-Orange County (CA) and has served as the VP Professional Development, VP Finance and Trustee. She’s also a member of the American Society for Training and Development, American Institute of CPAs, and California CPA Society.

Diane Altwies, MBA, PMP

Diane Altwies has a proven track record of delivering completed projects to the marketplace through effective leadership of multi-disciplinary teams with a strong customer focus. She has more than 21 years managing software development projects, and over 14 years experience in the insurance, financial services, mortgage lending, and healthcare industries. In 2000, she launched OuterCore, Inc., an IT consulting firm, followed by OuterCore Professional Development, LLC in 2001. Her training clients include Citigroup, Deloitte Consulting, Option One Mortgage, and Prescription Solutions.Ms. Altwies excels in evaluating business processes to determine and quantify the value-added and non-value added processes. She creates achievable plans to eliminate waste in operations taking into consideration the “total cost of delivery” to the customer. Her success can be attributed to her ability to bring together both internal and external resources, including a variety of off-shore and/or international development.  

She has worked hand-in-hand with clients such as Option One Mortgage, Wellpoint of California, Texas Mutual Insurance Company, Paradigm Technologies, MedNet Connect, and HMOnline on similar consulting assignments. Her efforts in delivering rules-based applications have resulted in business improvements such as reducing underwriting time from 45 minutes to 2 minutes while increasing consistency and pricing accuracy.

Ms. Altwies has a Masters degree in Finance and Marketing, and a BA degree in MIS & Production Management, both from the University of South Florida in Tampa. She is an active member of the PMI Orange County Chapter, and served as the Marketing Director.