We offer quality archival services for your community.

We also offer your community something even more valuable: Us!

Meet Our Team!

Chris Donohue

Co-Founder, Chief Financial Officer

Chris has been the Chief Financial Officer at Advantage Archives since 2010. Chris has over 20 years of business experience, most of which comes from the manufacturing and document imaging industries.

Chris graduated from Simpson College in 1994 with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Accounting. Chris played baseball at Simpson and served as Team Captain his senior year.

When not at work, Chris spends time with his wife and 3 children and is an avid runner having run half-marathons in the past.
Phone: 319-363-5266 x103
e-mail: Chris.Donohue@advantagearchives.com

Jeffrey Kiley

Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer

Jeffrey Kiley is the Co-Founder and COO of Advantage Archives and was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where he still lives with his family.

Jeff has a passion for history; specifically the history contained in the pages of old newspapers.
As an Iowan, he believes that the preservation of our collective history is a shared responsibility. He wants other like-minded Iowans to join the State Historical Society of Iowa and Advantage Archives in their mission to ensure that Iowa’s “first draft of history” is available for current and future generations.

Phone: 319-363-5266 x105
e-mail: Jeff.Kiley@advantagearchives.com

Matt Usher

General Manager

For 23 years Matt has been involved in image capture, document management, records warehousing and business process solution creation in both a sales and operations capacity.

Phone: 855-303-2727 x157
e-mail: Matt.Usher@advantagearchives.com

Lenny Ague

Production Manager

Lenny has 11 years experience in the scanning and document managment industry. He has established procedures to maximize production efficiencies and has utilized a variety of scanning and data capturing software. He has managed processes that include prepping, scanning, quality control, and both in-house and off-shore indexing. Clients include Healthcare, Finance, Manufacturing, Bio Tech, Government, Law Firms, and Education.Lenny has coordinated several coding projects. He has worked with clients and internal team members to establish documentation to allow for efficient, accuracy and consistency objective coding and subjective coding. Lenny has built coding teams to meet the client’s expectations for product delivery and costs. He has managed multiple levels of legal coders with various legal skills and backgrounds.

Phone: 855-303-2727 x169
e-mail: Lenny.Ague@advantagearchives.com

Derek Fiscus

Digital Assets & Preservation

Derek is responsible for the digital assets and presentation of such through our custom developed web portals. Derek has been involved in digital preservation of documents since 2004, with over 200 million documents processed under his detailed care.

His technical experience ranges from Scanning and OCR software through web development and Enterprise level Search Engine and Database development and maintenance.

When not obsessing over the documents in his care, Derek can be found at a local CrossFit Gym or at home cooking and spending time with his family of 4.

Phone: 855-303-2727
e-mail: Derek.Fiscus@advantagearchives.com

Shar Melsha

Account Manager

Shar Melsha has over twenty two years of experience in providing document management solutions. In 2003 Shar and several partners formed The Advantage Companies a provider of document management solutions. Shar was responsible for sales for the Advantage Information Management Solutions (AIMS) which converted paper, microfilm, and microfiche to digital images and paper documents to microfilm. She has signed several Fortune 500 companies as clients delivering a vast array of solutions to Healthcare, Manufacturing, Insurance, Investment and Financial institutions.

Phone: 855-303-2727 x153
e-mail: Shar.Melsha@advantagearchives.com

Jeff Brown

Manager - Advantage Preservation

Jeff currently manages the Preservation Sales and Production teams at Advantage Archives as well as consulting on all Iowa preservation needs. Jeff has been in the Newspaper Preservation Industry for over 12 years. Working in the Newspaper Preservation Industry allows Jeff to utilize his History degree and his Economics degree from Cornell College as well as fuel his interest in Genealogical research.

Jeff is an expert in Microfilming Historical Newspapers or Documents on 35 mm Silver Halide (ANSI and AIIMS specifications). You can expect a fast turnaround time for your microfilm as most projects take no longer than 30 days for us to complete and ship the film.

Phone: 855-303-2727 x100
e-mail: Jeff.Brown@advantagearchives.com

Michelle Maltas

Account Manager

Michelle has been in the Newspaper Preservation Industry for over 11 years. Prior to entering the industry Michelle was an Education Software consultant working with School District from around the United States. Michelle works with Public Libraries, University Libraries, Historical Societies, Genealogical Societies, and Newspaper Publishers across the United States providing institutions with a long term preservation model (Microfilm) as well as a user friendly model (Digitization).

Michelle will work with you on a one to one basis from beginning to end of each project, assuring the outcome you want and expect.

Phone: 855-303-2727 x156
e-mail: michelle@advantagearchives.com

Larry Eckhardt

Account Manager

Larry has been in the Newspaper Preservation Industry for over 12 years. Larry feels at home in The Newspaper Preservation Industry, combining his love of technology with his love of history. Larry works with Public Libraries, College and University Libraries, Historical Societies, Genealogical Societies, and Newspaper Publishers across the United States and Canada, providing institutions with a long term preservation model (Microfilm) as well as a user friendly model (Digitization).

Larry will work with you through a collaborative approach. When working with Larry you’re involved from the initial specifications to the delivery of the products, thus assuring the outcome you want and expect.

Phone: 855-303-2727 x107
e-mail: Larry.Eckhardt@advantagearchives.com

Grant Kaestner

Account Manager

Grant has been in the Newspaper Preservation Industry for over 5 years. Grant feels at home in The Newspaper Preservation Industry, combining his love of technology with his love of history. Grant works with Public Libraries, College and University Libraries, Historical Societies, Genealogical Societies, and Newspaper Publishers across the United States and Canada, providing institutions with a long term preservation model (Microfilm) as well as a user friendly model (Digitization).

Grant will work with you through a collaborative approach. When working with Grant you’re involved from the initial specifications to the delivery of the products, thus assuring the outcome you want and expect.

Phone: 855-303-2727 x152
e-mail: Grant.Kaestner@advantagearchives.com