I began my career as a commercial real estate developer because I wanted to build big beautiful buildings for people to live and work in. Over time my focus has evolved to the intersection between the built environment, information technology, and data science. I still want to build something beautiful that changes the way people live and work; only these days my work is just as likely to involve API docs as architectural drawings.ExperienceI am an entrepreneur at heart and I have the scars on my back to prove it. I have been the CEO of three companies and the founder of two. I have recruited and led teams of four up to forty, from data science and data engineering to inside sales and customer service. I have raised equity funding from angel investors, institutional investors, and publicly traded companies. I have sourced and closed partnerships deals with familiar names such as H&R Block, Realtor.com, and Microsoft.I have created new web services for homeowners, SAAS products for accountants, and new propensity data products for real estate agents and mortgage banks. I built a hotel, opened a restaurant, and built my own home twice.I have built and managed two different inside sales teams. One sold legacy data products to the Fortune 500; the other sold cutting edge predictive analytics to real estate professionals. I have been a Salesforce.com administrator and power user at two companies. I grew a direct mail campaign from twenty thousand letters per year to over five million by developing a random forest model to predict which recipients were most likely to respond. I have international business experience from the two years I spent living and working in Vina del Mar, Chile. I’m also a husband, and father to four great kids.
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