About Apple Pi
A Leader in PowerFAIDS® Consulting and Implementation.
Apple Pi Consulting is a 18-year-old firm of PowerFAIDS® experts and consultants headquartered in central Ohio serving higher education with PowerFAIDS® financial aid management support services. We are proud to be recognized by the College Board as a PowerFAIDS® Specialist and have completed multiple implementations on their behalf.
We are experts at helping financial aid offices unleash the full power of their PowerFAIDS® financial aid management platform with key services and products.
KEY SERVICES
Proprietary PowerFAIDS® System Analysis
PowerFAIDS® Configuration
Data Integrations
Customized PowerFAIDS® Process Solutions
Institution-Specific Procedure Documentation
Hands-on PowerFAIDS® Training
YOUR BENEFITS
Automated aid packaging with on-time, accurate disbursements
100% records compliance
Maximized productivity through simplifying technology
Reduced office stress
More time to focus on your students
POWERFAIDS® EXPERTISE
We are the only financial aid team comprised exclusively of full-time PowerFAIDS® consultants. In fact, we are the experts other experts rely on.
MEET THE TEAM
Dr. Valerie A. Mockus
President
Valerie A. Mockus began her career in financial aid as a work study at Denison University. Four years later, she accepted her first financial aid administrative position and has been in aid since. After serving at both public and private institutions and earning her MBA at Saint Francis (PA), Valerie accepted a position with the College Board as a consultant. In 2004, Valerie created Apple Pi Consulting. Valerie completed her doctorate with research focusing on the impact of Prior-Prior Year.
Nick Jenkins
PowerFAIDS® Consultant
Nick Jenkins began his career in financial aid in a shared Admission/Financial Aid Counselor position at Lenoir-Rhyne University, where he began using PowerFAIDS®. Four years later, he moved full time into financial aid, eventually working his way up to Director of Financial Aid in 2012. In this role, he worked to automate and optimize the use of PowerFAIDS® in his office, while also serving on the PowerFAIDS® Advisory Board (2014-2018) and presenting at PowerFAIDS® User Conference. Nick joined Apple Pi Consulting in 2018.
Gary Mockus
Software Developer
Gary joined the company full time in 2007 to write software solutions for schools. He has a degree in Forestry/Wildlife Management and another in Computer Programming. He has worked closely with end users and knows how confusing it can be for a non-techie to understand software. His main goal in writing software is to make it user friendly.
Emma Rose
Assistant Director of Research
Emma Rose joined the company full time in January 2020, specializing in PowerFAIDS® research. She has a degree in Biomedical Sciences and another in Mathematics. Emma has worked to create detailed procedural documentation for clients. She has designed test scripts to test specific function behaviors in multifunction algorithms as well as designed an integration tool mapping Slate® fields to PowerFAIDS® fields. Additionally, Emma has aggregated fines by compliance concern from program reviews conducted by the Department of Education and analyzed the data to better assist clients.
Kelly Skubal
PowerFAIDS® Consultant
Kelly Skubal began her career in financial aid as a workstudy student at Limestone College. Four years later, she accepted her first full-time financial aid position serving as Assistant Director of Financial Aid, and using PowerFAIDS® on a day-to-day basis. Kelly joined the College Board in 2001 to further utilize her PowerFAIDS® expertise. For the next 13 years, her responsibilities included providing PowerFAIDS® Technical Support, assisting new PowerFAIDS® customers with system configuration in order to improve office efficiencies, PowerFAIDS® documenting and training, recommending PowerFAIDS® software improvements and enhancements, and planning the PowerFAIDS® User Conference including designing the schedule with relevant content. Kelly joined Apple Pi Consulting in July 2014.
PowerFAIDS® User Conferences
Be sure not to miss our popular presentations at annual PowerFAIDS® user conferences.
EXPERIENCE
Adventist University of Health Sciences
Albertus Magnus College
Alvernia University
Anderson University
Arcadia University
Atlanta College of Art
Avila University
Azusa Pacific University College
Barton College
Bay Path University
Belhaven University
Bentley University
Berklee
Berry College
Bethune-Cookman University
Bob Jones University
Bowdoin College
Bryn Mawr College
Capella University
Carnegie Mellon University
Charles R. Drew University
Charter Oak State College
Cheyney University
Cleveland Institute of Art
Coe College
College Board
Columbia College Chicago
Columbia International University
Columbia University
Cornell College
Credo
Denison University
DePauw University
DeVry University
Dominican University
Dunwoody College of Technology
Evangel University
Fisher College
Fordham University
Furman University
Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary
Golden Gate University
Good Samaritan College of Nursing
Goodwin University
Gordon College
Goucher College
Greenville College
Hampshire College
Hannibal-LaGrange College
Haverford College
Hilbert College
Holy Names University
Hood College
Houghton College
Husson University
Illinois College
Indiana Tech
Johns Hopkins University
Keuka College
Keystone College
Kilgore College
King College
Kuyper College
Lackawanna College
Lake Erie College
Lasell College
Lenoir-Rhyne University
LIM College
Los Angeles Pacific University
Loyola University
Madonna University
Maria College
Marian University
Mars Hill College
Mary Baldwin University
Massachusetts Bay Community College
Metropolitan College of New York
Milton Hershey School
MIT
Mitchell College
Molloy College
Moravian College
Mount Aloysius College
Mount Mary University
Mount Mercy University
Murray State College
New York University
Newberry College
North Central Michigan College
Northland International University
Oakwood University
Overture Technologies
Pacific Northwest College of Art
Palm Beach Atlantic University
Palo Alto University
Paris Junior College
Park University
Paul Smith's College
Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts
Pfeiffer University
Piedmont International University
Point Loma Nazarene University
Point Park University
Pomona College
Post University
Prescott College
Quincy University
Reinhardt University
Rivier University
Robert Morris University
Roberts Wesleyan College
Rockford University
Saint Francis University
Saint George's University
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
Salem Community College
Sarah Lawrence College
Scannell & Kurz, Inc.
Schreiner University
Seminary of the Southwest
Sentara College of Health Sciences
Seton Hill University
Shorter College
Skidmore College
Smith College
Southeastern University
Stevens Institute of Technology
SUNY Maritime College
Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology
Thiel College
Touro College
Treasure Valley Community College
Trinity College
Union College
University of Chicago
University of Houston-Downtown
University of Mary
University of Mount Olive
University of Mount Union
University of New Haven
University of Saint Francis
Upper Iowa University
Urbana University
Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology
Victoria College
Warren Wilson College
Wartburg College
Washington University in St. Louis
Wayland Baptist University
Waynesburg College
Wellesley College
Western Oregon University
Western Technical College
Wheelock College
Wilberforce University