The LCT Family - Charity Hutchings (Strategic Team)

When you meet Charity Hutchings you immediately sense that she is much more than your typical 22 year old.

A quiet, hard working young woman with a work ethic that few can match, Charity regularly defines and meets deadlines in her position as a Strategic Team Associate and Bid Specialist for Logical Choice.

The Strategic Team is an integral part of the life of LCT because it seeks out requests for proposals and bids by using services that assist in finding opportunities and it relies on LCT’s sales team to bring in bids. Bids in turn, become long term business and revenue for Logical Choice. So, the Strategic Team members are very important people at LCT.

A tight knit group including, Charity Hutchings, Keila Johnson, and Jeff Wilson and managed by Christine DeYoung, the Strategic Team meshes well with one another.

“I was hired originally to be Ronnie Bertucci’s assistant four years ago, but within two months I began to work for Christine,” Charity said.  “I love working for Christine. I wouldn’t want to work for anyone else because she’s a great boss. She’s understanding, patient, helpful, and she explains things. She taught me my most important lesson – that there is no “I” in TEAM.”

The Strategic team certainly works according to the no “I in TEAM rule”. It is one group that pitches in to help each other whenever there is a job to be done and they work hard to make each bid perfect and to gather all the information needed to demonstrate LCT’s best effort each and every time. They even get coffee together (at 3 pm every day!) and eat lunch together.

The most challenging part of Charity’s job is waiting on information to meet a deadline. “Bids are a very deadline driven area and it is hard to get everyone together to work on a bid when each person has so many other things to do,” Charity said.

But one of the things that Charity likes best about Logical Choice is that everyone here is nice and they don’t leave anyone out, “It’s a put-your-arms-around-each-other kind of place. LCT has ruined me for ever wanting to work anywhere else in corporate America,” Charity declared.

But Charity isn’t all work; she is also a trainer and accomplished rider and owner of a beautiful Appendix Quarter Horse, Mojo that she rides four to five times a week.

Born in North Carolina but growing up in Utah, Charity is part of a family of 6 brothers and both parents who all ride, not only horses but also bulls. This is a family who have made rodeo a way of life. Charity began riding at 7 years old on her horse, Tinkerbell, and knew she would do this for life.

When she graduated from High School at Faith Academy in Loganville, she immediately went to work for Michael Colvin, a world renowned trainer of American Quarter Horse Association horses.

Charity and her father rode for and trained with Michael Colvin until she met Kevin Shupenia, COO of Logical Choice, through the stable where she boards her horse, and he let her know about a job opportunity at LCT. She embarked on a career here and divided her time between her beloved horses and her work with the Strategic Team.

Three years ago, Charity’s time began to be taken up with a young man named Brandon Malcom, to whom she became engaged and plans to marry when a wedding date can be set. Brandon shares her love for horses and rodeo and is a former bull rider.

Charity is not your typical 22 year old, she’s a person with a lot of experience and talent to offer and we at Logical Choice Technologies are excited that happy trails led her to us.