History and culture

Leapfrog Systems Consulting, LLC was founded in 2000 by Darby Westfall immediately following the era of Y2K testing. The company is founded with a grateful appreciation of loving what we do while providing a benefit to others. 

Leapfrog Systems is a woman-owned business, and Darby has a passion for making information useful and impactful.  The processes for guiding a custom solution from concept to completion had its roots in the early 1990s at the Medical University of South Carolina where Darby and a small programming team banded together to meet the ad hoc software needs of a major university, while carefully observing standardization and risk management strategies.

Darby E. Westfall, Founder

The real beginning

Darby at first computer in high school. Yes, a TRS-80! (Appreciation for teaching from Mr. Caldwell and photo credit to Kirk Frazier.)

It was love at first sight when the TRS-80 computer showed up at Darby's high school in Mississippi. Darby went on to get a B.S. in Math/Computer Science at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
 
Darby began her career as a mainframe programmer, continued to adapt to new technologies as they arrived and remains involved in technical aspects of solution delivery. During one such engagement, she was named as a contributor on a patent for "System and method for organizing managing and accessing large quantities of data from non-homogenous data sources" (US Patent 7702694).

Darby delights in bringing team members together, each with their unique skills, to meet goals in a mutually beneficial collaboration.