✈ Architecting groundbreaking 4D geospatial software solutions for urban air traffic management and autonomous flight paving the way for safer, more efficient, and eco-friendly airspace utilization at lower altitudes.✈ Leveraging expertise in GIS combined with extensive aviation experience and comprehensive study in urban planning and economic, environmental, and transportation geography to strategically identify optimal vertiport locations and establish viable urban air mobility corridors and route networks.✈ Identifying talent and recruiting an elite team of engineers to build paradigm-shattering solutions that optimize the efficiency, safety, and sustainability of urban air mobility.✈ Solving the greatest challenges facing the industry by developing new concepts of operation and systems for navigation, routing, scheduling, surveillance, and air domain awareness that will ensure safe and efficient operations at vertiports and in increasingly congested and dangerous airspace.✈ Spearheading initiatives to increase adoption and public acceptance of eVTOL air taxis and drone delivery platforms by championing solutions that mitigate annoyance factors, such as prop noise and low-altitude flight over quiet residential areas, while also devising methods to minimize flight delays and cancellations, ultimately advancing the industry as a whole and reducing the burden on regulators.✈ Sharing expertise and providing thought leadership by speaking at conferences, writing articles, and delivering webinars on topics including unmanned air traffic management, BVLOS operations, counter UAS strategy, cybersecurity, and realtime V2x/I2x systems for mixed piloted and fully autonomous flight, making significant contributions to the industry's growth and success.

• Drove the adoption of Volt Active Data's NewSQL streaming data decisioning platform through effective evangelism and relationship building with customers, systems integrators, and partners globally.• Provided critical support to the sales team by researching prospects and crafting tailored pitches, identifying buyers' pain points and needs, answering technical questions, and consistently exceeding customer expectations with practical and innovative solutions.• Created compelling product demos and sales materials that demonstrated the unique value of Volt Active Data's real-time, elastically scalable, ACID-compliant platform for industries such as telco, IoT, V2X, finance, and online gaming.• Spearheaded the design and deployment of successful proofs-of-concept at customer sites and in the cloud, solidifying Volt Active Data's position as the premier platform for real-time decisioning and automation.• Demonstrated exceptional cross-cultural communication skills by delivering high-quality instructor-led training in both English and Spanish, overcoming language and cultural barriers to effectively communicate the platform's value proposition to international customers.

• Played a key role in the development of vital analytics solutions for TCB, BankDirect, and Bask Bank, utilizing Azure Machine Learning, Alteryx, SQL Server, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, and Power BI to deliver cutting-edge solutions that enabled these organizations to better understand their customers and prevent fraud.• Built and managed CI/CD pipelines for analytics and reporting workflows, streamlining the development and deployment process.• Continuously sought out new technologies and techniques to improve the analytics process and deliver greater value to customers, positioning TCB for long-term success in a rapidly evolving market especially during the pandemic.

• Played a critical role in the launch and success of a new network intelligence product, supporting sales efforts and providing expertise in developing use cases, responding to technical inquiries, and devising practical solutions throughout the sales process.• Designed and implemented proof-of-concept solutions at customer sites around the world, showcasing the product's capabilities and building trust with potential customers.• Successfully integrated DPI, policy, traffic detection, and intelligence solutions into customers' networks, working seamlessly with existing third-party OSS/BSS systems and data lakes. These efforts led to improved network performance, security, and profitability for customers.• Crafted compelling data stories that provided valuable insights for customers, highlighting opportunities for optimizing network performance and reducing operating costs.• Led the rollout of professional services for the Active Network Intelligence product, including integrations with Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Mongo, and Cisco Policy Suite, as well as dashboard development, machine learning algorithm development, and end-user training. This helped to improve the overall customer experience and drive product adoption.• Authored CBT courseware and delivered instructor-led training on Deep Insights and Insights Data Storage at workshops in multiple locations worldwide, helping to build customer expertise and drive product success.• Successfully navigated language and cultural barriers to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to international customers, building strong relationships and driving product success.

• Generated over $30 million in costs savings for field experiments by constructing recommendation engines that analyzed terrain, soil conditions, and climate to mitigate ponding/flooding risks and select better plots for each seed trial.• Achieved over 83% cost reduction and dramatic improvement in computation speeds by implementing more efficient feature selection techniques and deploying a Spark-based geospatial database for an environmental classification engine. These innovations and resulting datasets helped scientists optimize trait selection in the company's $25 billion, 15-year seed development pipeline, putting them on track to help the world double crop yields by 2030 while reducing water requirements and other inputs by 30%. This engine also assists growers in selecting the optimum seed varieties for their unique terrain, climatic, and soil conditions in each 3 meter square of their fields, enabling them to optimize crop yields and reduce waste.• Achieved millions in cost savings by reducing hardware and software licensing costs with open-source solutions and deploying an auto-scaling geospatial data analytics infrastructure on AWS, utilizing frameworks such as GeoServer, CKAN, Postgres/PostGIS, Apache Spark, Accumulo, GeoMesa, OpenLayers, and QGIS.

• Successfully migrated critical processes and data from an outdated MySQL-based loan decisioning and servicing platform to a more robust and scalable PostgreSQL-based platform. This upgrade resulted in significant improvements in system performance, data reliability, and overall efficiency.• Designed and implemented highly efficient PL/pgSQL code to solve complex business problems, streamline processes, and improve data quality. These solutions greatly improved the accuracy and speed of loan decisioning and servicing, resulting in faster loan processing times and improved customer satisfaction.• Developed and deployed comprehensive ETL solutions to securely ingest, validate, and transform vast quantities of data from multiple vendors into valuable and accessible information products and services for the business. These solutions helped the company gain valuable insights into market trends, customer behavior, and risk factors, enabling better-informed business decisions and more effective risk management.

• Crafted a revolutionary mineral rights trading platform to disrupt the traditional landmen-based approach and connected mineral owners directly with investors through a fair online marketplace, delivering significant value to both parties.• Successfully evangelized the Mineralist Marketplace through direct outreach and face-to-face meetings with over 100 farmers and ranchers who owned tens of thousands of undeveloped oil/gas-rich acres in the Bakken shale play, securing the platform’s very first listings.• Leveraged advanced web scrapers, OCR, and NLP to obtain valuable intelligence on mineral rights ownership, drilling activity, well yields, and more, enabling better-informed decision making for investors and sellers alike.• Reduced data acquisition costs by several thousand dollars by successfully petitioning the North Dakota Attorney General to take decisive action compelling local governments to release public records and invalidate contracts with third-party public record custodians that violated North Dakota’s open records laws by charging licensing fees.

• Transfigured this startup into a successful $24 million location intelligence company with notable clients such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Move (Realtor.com), Royal LePage, and Redfin.• Conceived and led the creation of Maponics' most successful location intelligence product lines and services, delivering valuable solutions to clients across industries, especially the real estate, finance, healthcare, and government sectors.• Doubled revenues and cut costs by over 50% within five months of joining the company by implementing an online store with a fully automated demographic reporting and cartographic production engine. The online store's profits fully financed the pivot to digital location intelligence data products and services without the need for angel or venture capital investors or debt.• Directly supported sales of data and professional services to major clients including Google, Fannie Mae, and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.• Successfully obtained copyright registration certificates for Maponics' unique data products, overcoming objections from US Copyright Office examiners by demonstrating their originality and meeting the standard set forth by the Supreme Court in Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co.• Slashed data acquisition costs by millions by pursuing legal actions against government entities that were denying access to public data or charging unlawful licensing fees. These efforts resulted in public records being released at the actual cost of duplication or even zero cost to the public.

• Analyzed the effects of education policies on student and community outcomes• Told compelling stories with data about impoverished schools, students, and communities primarily in the rural South to effect policy change• Conducted a workshop on the use of GIS for policy analysis and grassroots action at the annual Rural Education Working Group conference.

• Conceived MacVONK’s Weekbladservice (now Huisaanhuis.nu) to revolutionize how newspaper ads were booked and preflighted.• Guided the development of @Taker, a multiplatform ad booking solution built on top of the ECXS CRM platform. I ensured that it would be compatible with Baseview's ProductionManagerPro advertising automation solution and with major European backoffice systems.

• Provided critical support to global pre-sales and post-sales efforts for Baseview advertising production solutions, helping to secure numerous deals and drive revenue growth.• Actively evangelized Baseview's cutting-edge solutions at high-profile expos in Amsterdam and Düsseldorf, generating significant interest and new business leads.• Installed and expertly supported publishing automation solutions at customer sites around the world, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance.• Developed comprehensive end-user training materials and delivered engaging training sessions, enabling customers to fully utilize and maximize the value of Baseview's solutions.• Localized software and documentation into Dutch and Spanish, ensuring seamless adoption and ease of use for non-English-speaking customers.• Innovated solutions for supporting multiple alphabets before the operating system and Baseview applications had native Unicode support, demonstrating exceptional problem-solving and technical expertise.

• Managed a high-performing newsroom systems department supporting hundreds of users and over 200 workstations and servers distributed across multiple sites for an esteemed newspaper with a circulation of over 270,000 on Sundays and 185,000 on weekdays.• Supervised a team of support staff, ensuring timely and effective resolution of issues to maintain optimal system performance and minimize downtime.• Coordinated efforts with systems managers in advertising, circulation, the pressroom, and MIS, fostering collaboration and maximizing efficiency across departments.• Spearheaded the successful deployment of major projects including GIS and other advanced tools for computer-aided journalism, custom enhancements for the content management and layout systems delivering significant improvements in productivity, and the creation of new fonts and page layouts for enhancing legibility and improving reader experience with the new format.• Developed and implemented strategies for disaster recovery and business continuity across multiple Gannett publications in Iowa, ensuring uninterrupted operations and minimizing the impact of system disruptions such as had previously occurred during the Great Midwest Flood of 1993.• Implemented best practices for system administration and security, ensuring compliance with industry standards and protecting sensitive data.

• Transformed information and publishing systems for the newsroom, advertising, and marketing departments, introducing a new concept of operations that significantly increased efficiency.• Introduced instant/lean digital publishing methodologies with The "Instant" Tennessean, which was featured in Gannett's employee magazine and served as inspiration for similar efforts in the fully digital age to come.• Successfully trained users on the use of various applications and systems, resulting in improved productivity and performance.• Owing to my innovations and achievements, within two years of joining The Tennessean as an entry-level Systems Support Specialist, I was promoted by several pay grades to the position of Systems Editor (newsroom IT manager) at the Des Moines Register, a prestigious Gannett newspaper that has won 17 Pulitzer Prizes.

• Provided expert technical support and training to Mac users in the advertising, marketing, and audio books departments, ensuring smooth and efficient operations.• Served as the primary point of contact for all technical issues related to Mac hardware and software, diagnosing and resolving problems to minimize downtime and improve productivity.• Developed and delivered training programs on Mac OS, software applications, and hardware use, ensuring that users have the skills and knowledge necessary to perform their jobs effectively.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement new technologies and workflows, ensuring that Mac systems are integrated seamlessly with other systems and processes.• Maintained up-to-date knowledge of industry developments and emerging technologies, advising management on new trends and best practices.

• Spearheaded a major initiative to recover and reassemble lost and disorganized records from hospital systems in Utah and Louisiana, resulting in a dramatic reduction of over $2 million in write-offs.• Developed and implemented innovative solutions to streamline the process of retrieving scattered records and generating bills for individual accounts, slashing the time required from several hours to mere minutes.• Played a critical role in revamping operations, enabling billing for long-overdue outstanding balances owed by insurers and patients, leading to improved financial performance for our clients.• Provided expert training to staff on new processes and technologies, ensuring seamless adoption and maximum efficiency gains.

• Co-founded a dynamic digital startup with fellow Moody alums John Greer and Bryan Buchleiter, focused on enhancing concert performances and other large events with video, producing music videos and television spots, and designing rich web sites and interactive media.• Secured funding and raised capital to support our company's initial growth and expansion.• Demonstrated strong leadership skills, managing and motivating a team of creative professionals to achieve outstanding results.