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Greater Boston Area

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Groft Consulting provides data analysis and product development consultation services to emerging technologies. With almost 10 years of experience in building complex systems and analyzing the effectiveness of those systems in real-world conditions, we can offer a unique work-bench to end-user perspective for new products.

Boston, Ma

Manage the development and operational activities of a new urban data collection system and its commercialized parking products. Delivering a unique set of integrated parking rules and options to allow motorists to quickly find parking options that meet their needs in difficult parking situations:• Product Development - Oversee several teams of technology developers to manage geospatial data, mobile data collection, web applications and operational management portals.• Business and Strategic Planning - key contributor to strategic planning of corporate growth and product scaling• Financial Modeling - prepare financial modeling to guide product, market and financing execution for expansion• Investor Relations - report to current and prospective investors and present business strategy and status of current operations• Day to Day Operations

Beverly, Ma

Engage promising early stage cleantech companies to promote the value our incubator facility and services to their development. Participate in candidate technology evaluation and selection process. Provide mentoring support to member companies for business strategy and planning, intellectual property review, market research, and team building.

Key contributor to the management, design and technical support for this developer of parking telemetry sensors and networks. Deployed the largest installation in the world for remote parking management while participating in corporate strategy development, product management and patent/intellectual property development. Data Management Product Development – Developed a patented data analysis process for parking event data. Created a method for calculating all statistics for each motorist and aggregation techniques to summarize the data for municipal customers. Delivered a valid reporting technology ahead of a short deadline creating a core value proposition for StreetSmart and its customers.  Customer Acceptance Testing Process – Developed automated tools to validate data streams against field observations for StreetSmart’s first large scale deployment.  Customer Support – Developed a new pricing model for an open access parking facility to improve the customer’s revenue.  Field Service Management – Improved the maintenance reporting and alerts system for Street Smart’s major installation. Reduced outstanding maintenance issues by over 50% within 3 weeks while identifying specific causes for false positives and reducing field service expense. Service Management – Identified and executed on an opportunity to internalize customer support.  Failure/Quality Management – Identified key trends within failed testing observations for a project which was in danger of failing customer acceptance. Entrepreneurial Business Support – Addressed lack of communications and coordination among contractors working from home offices and geographically dispersed employees.

Promoted from entry level administration position through 2 promotions to Team Manager leading a team which provided account reconciliation, discrepancy resolution and answering queries. Became a subject matter expert for complex international investment accounts with differing based currencies and unconventional bank reporting.

Bachelors, Small Business Management

Associates, Computer Network Administration