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Lancaster, PA

• Founded mapping services and solutions company, managing all facets of day to day operations.
• Designed and managed the development of OnScene Xplorer in-vehicle pre-incident planning, hydrant management, and mapping system for emergency responders, with over 1700 installations in the U.S and Canada.
• Designed and managed the development of OnScene Xplorer Mobile Viewer mobile applications published at the Apple App Store and Google Play.
• Built seamless U.S./Canada Microsoft SQL Server spatial mapping database of customer areas to support OnScene Xplorer product line with automated deployment of spatial updates to remote clients.
• Created company and product marketing programs including print advertising, trade magazine articles, internet keyword advertising and SEO.
• Designed and implemented license tracking and maintenance billing system generating 60% of revenue monthly.

Harrisburg, PA

• Provide strategic direction for critical enterprise applications and spatial databases.
• Conducts annual release planning to prioritize high value application changes.
• Developed relationships with business process owners to improve the communication between and effectiveness of the applications maintenance team.
• Manage the application release lifecycle from initiating scoping meetings to final acceptance sign off utilizing both waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Manage team of software developers, database administrators and business analysts.
• Conduct new hire screenings, interviews, and selections.

Mountville, PA

Sold custom mapping services and spatial data driven projects to a variety of customers and markets.Used technical background to design better project approaches, which enabled projects to be completed under budget.

Lancaster, PA

Managed GIS staff and large mapping projects, most notable was the conversion of the National Geographic Atlas of the World from a conventional film based product to a digital spatial database used to produce the 7th edition revised and forward editionsLead the team to develop CartoTools, a spatial database and cartographic production system used.

Lancaster, PA

Worked on spatial data development activities to support software products and custom cartographic projects. Created many processes and technologies to increase efficiency in mapping data development.

Lancaster, PA

Planner involved in long range comprehensive planning actives. Developed GIS capabilities to effectively model ground breaking Urban Growth Boundaries.

Education record

9-12

Activities and Societies: Football, Stage Crew