Keith Hanson Email & Phone Number

Shreveport, LA, US

With almost 20 years in tech, I've done a lot—from writing code to managing tech strategy as a CTO for a mid-sized city. I've seen firsthand how new technologies can change how we work and live, and have seen firsthand what happens to organizations who do not adopt those advances. Right now, I'm focused on the practical uses of AI and Large Language Models.

Building on the open-source work I spearheaded within my government role, I have created a lower-cost and simpler-to-deploy device that uses broadcast SSIDs all around the city to map adoption gaps. This technique helped me to obtain grants and justification for utilizing funds to bring free internet options to some of the lowest areas of adoption. My hope.

Serving as a committee member with Municipal insight and reviewing grant applications for the Helium network's non-profit foundation, DeWi.org

Shreveport, Louisiana, US

As the first Chief Technology Officer, my department and I have (so far) been able to:- Reorganize staff and modernize positions, pay, and upward mobility for my department- Reduced HR complaints originating from IT to nearly zero by improving culture and transparency within IT- Corrected toxic attitudes by reassigning staff to roles they loved or removing.

CodePilot is a general automation framework which allows businesses to make their processes completely automated. CodePilot creates re-usable scenarios for our customers, or completely custom scenarios specific to their needs.CodePilot is also the backend automation engine that makes projects like LeadBots.io (coming soon) possible.The major contribution I.

Shreveport, LA, US

Twin Engine Labs designs and develops mobile applications. In less than two years, Twin Engine Labs has grown from two to sixteen employees, producing several award winning applications, including The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore based on the Oscar winning short. Twin Engine Labs has also worked with brands large and small, working with.

Founding member of the Shreveport Charter Foundation established this year (2012). We are the governing board for the NEW Magnolia School of Excellence (M.S.E.) Charter School. We are in the process of building TWO separate brand new, state of the art schools for the students of Caddo Parish in Shreveport, LA. One building will accommodate over 600 k-8.

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Design and Developed services for many entrepreneurs, utilizing complex technology stacks via Ruby and several NoSQL back-ends, including: Redis, CouchDB, and MongoDB.In particular among these projects were several which required full text analysis and artificial intelligence programming, including Naive Bayes Classifiers as well as Sentiment Analysis..

Richardson, TX, US

- Ensured the software engineering team has a steady, managed flow of tasks that moved projects towards their finish lines at an optimal pace for both the engineers and stake holders- Ensured the was enough communication between the customers and engineers, and removed road blocks from the engineering team's path- Established deployment strategies and.

Tweetingtoohard.com interfaces with twitter for authentication as well as displaying tweets on the site, and was recently (August, 2009) featured in an issue of Wired Magazine.Users submit tweets to the site, and the community logs in and votes them up or down. It utilizes the hacker news algorithm for point worth.I developed the entire site in Ruby using.

http://unt.findmytxt.comTook a generally lack-luster and feature incomplete first iteration of Highform's initial product offering and brought it far closer to a working product and closer to the vision of the co-founders. Implemented EC2 based scaling and lightweight operations to enable an operating cost of $40/month on low traffic times, while allowing.

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.NET Software Engineer. Worked primarily on SocialCash.com website doing SQL Server, Linq, and Webforms based development. Worked on experimental and prototype releases of WPF software. Helped move from Visual Source Safe to Subversion based source control.

Richardson, TX, US

Client Management, team management, lead development in Ruby;Production Unix Server Maintenance, DB maintenance (postgresql, mysql);Experience setting up a standard Ruby on Rails stack as well as a standard Ruby/Datamapper/Merb/Swiftiply stack, along with Capistrano deploys for both.

Worked in a custom framework built with C#/.NET. Took project requirements and worked largely on my own with little direction from management. Worked with MSSQL, IIS, and other server maintenance when needed. Built custom software that monitored multiple servers with minimal installation or no installation on each server.

Worked in multiple languages (C#, VB.NET, ColdFusion, ASP Classic) each and every day. Was given tasks to fix and deploy bugs in software that was not created by me. I rarely worked on any one project for very long before being assigned to the next big problem to fix.

Rexburg, Idaho, US