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Windsor, Ct, Us

TRC acquired Locana in December 2023

Greenwood Village , Colorado, Us

Leading Critigen's Product Management team to enhance current products and solutions while bringing new products and services to market.

Leading Sales and Solution development for Commercial customers and State & Local Governments.

Responsible for sales and marketing to Architecture, Engineering and Consulting Firms in the United States.

Critigen is a global leader in information technology consulting and IT outsourcing. The company delivers more than 1,500 engagements each year, leveraging spatial intelligence, business analyses, and award-winning managed services to improve processes, expand capability and turn data into visual insight for public and private sector clients. Critigen's innovative solutions for its global client base integrate mature and emerging technologies such as the cloud, ground breaking mobile-based applications, data management, GIS, and mapping solutions. Learn more about Critigen: critigen.com

Develop strategic relationships with clients provide them access to Critigen services. Personally provide Management Consulting and Project management services.Critigen was divested from CH2M HILL in September 2009

Englewood, Colorado, Us

Management consulting role in CH2M Hill's Management and Information Services group. We provide our clients expert guidance and projet delivery in business process improvement, information systems and enterprise geographic information systems.

Mclean, Va, Us

Responsible for long-term strategic IT support of the industry-dominant balance-transfer product for debt repayment with revenues over $125 MM. Manage staff of 15-20 project managers, developers, analysts and contractors.• Fathered Wiki technology in the organization to capture “tribal knowledge”, index documentation of Boise site’s information systems and facilitate departmental collaboration.• Trained business and technical associates on effective application of Use Cases to make software requirements more accessible to designers and business customers.• Key organizer of IT associate morale committee.• Participated in creation and implementation of customized Project Delivery Methodology and the effort to achieve CMMI Level 2.

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Reinvented the company’s IT organization and infrastructure. Conceptualized a series of integrated services to support the company’s goal of doubling its $50+ MM business, then built staff and initiated projects to deliver them. Reformed IT culture to be customer-centric, professional and driving for excellence.• Brought IT infrastructure and processes into compliance with financial audit requirements by overseeing a total replacement of server infrastructure and creating corresponding processes, controls and documentation. Used project to organize data, provide nearly complete hardware redundancy, ensure scalability and fortify information security measures.• Presented to international business user conference for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) discussing how GIS can improve risk assessment and enable innovative insurance products.• Fostered a business intelligence initiative, investigating and prototyping data warehouses, OLAP databases and business intelligence tools.

Led a group of five international master’s students in developing a technology solution that would extend the viability of river shipping to a larger set of commodities than what is currently shipped. System has a patent pending. • Successfully brought together stakeholders with conflicting interests to develop a mutually beneficial approach to improving cargo barge transit of river locks.• Led a diverse team to define and prototype a system to move cargo barges through river locks more quickly, safely and consistently. System now has a patent pending.• Developed a prototype system expected to produce a 218% return on investment to river operators in their first year. • Project completed successful beta demonstration on the Ohio River for final pre-deployment testing in fall of 2005.

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Redesigned and implemented software user-interface for visualization of complex engineering data. Work now has a patent pending.• Quickly built confidence of sales associates for creating product demonstrations and communicating clearly about product functionality. Built a product feature promised by sales executive in 36 hours and assisted in its demonstration. The feature proved key to the sale.• Balanced computer science theory and practical skills learned in school with industry best practices and mentoring from MIT PhDs and other seasoned programmers. Assimilated Gang of Four Design Patterns and Java Design Patterns.

Ms, Mba - Cs Hybrid Degree

Msec, Ecommerce

Bs Magna Cum Laude & University Honors, Computer Science