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Rochester, Ny, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

As a member of the Senior Executive Leadership team at Insurity, provided strategic leadership across four products in the Analytics suite. Led cross-organization initiatives spanning product development, product management, information security, IT, sales, and customer success, resulting in double digit revenue growth and improved EBIDTA. • Led the seamless integration into Insurity post-acquisition, overseeing strategy for product/data, team restructuring, and budget alignment. Ensured 95%+ client retention and continued revenue growth. • Spearheaded the acquisition and integration of Maprisk into the analytics group, unifying SpatialKey and Maprisk to establish Insurity Geospatial as the industry leading solution increasing overall ARR by 70%. • As Insurity Analytics Executive, owned full lifecycle of 4 strategic products, including Valen, Maprisk, and Data Depot. Drove development, management, and budgeting to accelerate growth and market impact.• Orchestrated multiple strategic initiatives (Flash migration, Java/Postgres upgrades, data integration, AWS migration, SOC2, AI) encompassing development, architecture, security, DevOps, and governance, significantly enhancing analytics product offerings and reducing operational risk.• Led digital transformation initiatives across Valen and Data Depot, leveraging cutting-edge technologies like Snowflake, SageMaker to drive cost reduction and streamline operations with a 30% smaller team, without compromising performance or service levels. • Collaborated across product development, customer support, and sales to create a cohesive product offering, streamlining the go-to-market approach for geospatial solutions growing the business by 15-20% annually while reducing expenses year over year to improve EBITDA. • Championed company-wide transformation in cloud strategy, automation, and DevOps, reducing costs and accelerating deployment speed over 50%, while enhancing team autonomy.

Austin, Texas, Us

As CTO at SpatialKey, I was instrumental in building and scaling a high-performing team focused on driving revenue growth and innovation in the insurance sector. During my tenure, I successfully led the company through a transformative growth phase that culminated in an acquisition.My key achievements include:• Evolving vertical solutions in Underwriting, Event Response, and Portfolio Management by leveraging modern cloud technologies. This enhanced our data processing capabilities and positioned us as a market differentiator.• Designing and implementing a cloud-native, multi-peril event response solution that enabled near-real-time analysis across hundreds of millions of locations, revolutionizing our approach to event data.• Establishing a formal security program that prepared the company for SOC2 certification, significantly enhancing our commitment to data security and building customer confidence throughout the sales process.• Formalizing and scaling our development processes through the adoption of Agile methodologies, which improved consistency in product delivery and development practices.• Fostering a culture of mentorship and leadership development within the team, while also implementing a hybrid offshoring model to attract and integrate diverse talent, thereby enhancing our innovation capacity.• Leading the data practice to expand our offerings and operational effectiveness, providing support for over 25 third-party data providers.• Building a formal DevOps practice that functioned as a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) group, enabling high levels of operational stability and efficiency.My focus on continuous improvement and collaborative leadership has driven significant advancements in technology and organizational effectiveness, positioning SpatialKey as a leader in the insurance analytics market.

Austin, Texas, Us

Led a team of engineers responsible for building a game-changing product that has carved out a niche making geospatial data visualization and analytics approachable for business users. SpatialKey started as a proof of concept prototype in 2007 and grew into a full-fledged profitable business in just 3 years. Our initial foray into building the product was to build a SaaS mapping and visualization tool that was horizontally focused. After working with law enforcement, real estate, pharmaceuticals, and marketing companies, we refocused all of our energy in the insurance vertical. SpatialKey grew from a simple mapping tool into a full analytic platform with multiple solutions combining customer data, third party data and analytics. Some examples of those solutions are the Underwriting, Hazard Analyst, Hurricane Forecast, Earthquake Impact, and Wildfire apps. They allow insurers to understand risk at the point of underwriting using different hazard models as well as the impact of an event on their portfolio. We have also built several custom apps for customers, integrating their backend processes into our platform and exposing their analytics in an easy to use interface integrated into the SpatialKey experience. As VP of Engineering in a startup environment I handled a wide range of responsibilities:• Built out the software as a service infrastructure for SpatialKey from the ground up on Amazon AWS •.Created using open source software: Linux, Apache, Tomcat, Postgres, and Postgis. • Managed a distributed design and engineering team located throughout the world.•.Managed the development process for custom applications built on the SpatialKey platform. Responsibilities included onsite requirements gathering, overseeing the design, development, deployment and support. In some cases handled some of the engineering tasks and hands on deployment.

Denver, Co, Us

Market research and foundational development for a geospatial analytics platform that formed the basis for SpatialKey. SpatialKey was was spun off as a new product company in 2009 from the professional services company Universal Mind. See SpatialKey job descriptions for full details.

San Jose, Ca, Us

-Managed a geographically distributed team responsible for Enterprise support through our Technical Account Manager support offering, the highest level of support that Adobe offers.--Managed 16 employees from two separate teams through an extended transition period. Recruited and hired a replacement manager for my Mobile and Devices team while transitioning into the Technical Account Manager role.-Managed Enterprise support for Flex, ColdFusion, Connect and Lifecycle

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Managed a world wide distributed team located in San Francisco, Boston, London, Ottawa and Japan.• Responsible for the support of OEM’s and carriers porting Flash Lite and SDK source code to mobile devices such as mobile phones and consumer electronics. • Hired seven new employees and established a training plan to quickly integrate them into the team.• Responsible for the OEM mobile certification program to certify devices that integrated Flash Lite and Flash SDK. • Managed the escalation of customer issues from the world wide offices of Japan, Korea and Europe.• Worked close with the Hamburg Germany based Device Intelligence team on the creation of Device Central, a key component of CS3 for the creation of mobile content. • Responsible for the hiring and training of the FlashCast support team in preparation for several high profile launches

San Jose, Ca, Us

Worked directly with the Flex product team during the development of Flex from Alpha to release in March of 2004. I was responsible for first learning the product, then working with the existing support staff to identify and train a new support team. Worked with Macromedia Professional Service team to assist strategic customers to build proof of concepts to prove Flex as a new technology.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Responsible for supporting Enterprise Level mission critical websites running on Macromedia ColdFusion 5.0 CFMX, and CFMX for J2EE on JRun, Websphere and Weblogic. Work directly with Fortune 500 customers to review infrastructure, code, database design and Application server settings then make recommendations to improve site performance and scalability along with best coding practices. Perform problem resolution onsite engagements with customers along with documenting and examining customer environments.Recently promoted to an Escalation Engineer position responsible for working directly with engineering to resolve highly technical product support issues. Personally selected from the product support team to spearhead a special project to take the new macromedia.com live. Responsible for architecting the clustered configuration, load testing and tuning the applications and application servers.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Responsible for the development and training given to U.S. Army personnel, Department of Defense civilians and foreign national students for courses on web design, active server pages, database design, Windows NT, and network security for over 500 students a year. Served as consultant for the U.S. Army on database and web application issues for SQL Server, IIS 4.0, Active Server Pages, and Cold Fusion.Developed a dynamic web based, database driven course critique system for US Army Signal Center to provide student feedback for over 1000 classes and 30,000 students per year. The Automated End of Course Critique system put the needed information into the hands of the decision makers 300% quicker than the manual system and reduced the workload by 200% saving the Army time and over $100,000 during the life of the system. System developed with Windows NT 4.0 Server, IIS 4.0, SQL Server 7.0, and Active Server Pages.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Improved the Division infrastructure from 9600bps modems to a fully functional WAN that included 2,000 computers, 75 Cisco routers, 10 Windows servers, and 4 MS Exchange Servers spanning 20 locations over a 200 mile radius.Designed and implemented a dynamic web based, database driven, tactical command and control system providing up to the second updates of equipment, personnel, and significant activities to commanders for a unit of over 18,000 personnel. Improved the go to war capabilities by putting real time battlefield information into the hands of the commanders up to 300% faster. It has fundamentally changed how the 2nd Infantry Division uses information and automation systems. It has increased the commanders ability to make decisions by providing more accurate, timely information that could save lives during a wartime situation. Proven successful in over 7 years of use. This system or adaptations thereof is the standard for command and control systems throughout the Army.