Exploring new ways to combine strategic data acquisition and analysis into opportunities for B2B and B2C products.

Optimal Ticketing is a multi-product company that serves the live event ticketing industry. Their clients include many of the professional sports teams and live acts we all see in stadiums around the country.I joined Optimal as the company's first CTO through the acquisition of Reveal Markets. While working to integrate day-to-day operations of Reveal, I started the process of building the initial team and taking over operations of the existing technology platform. The first step was to do a cloud migration and move the platform to AWS while consolidating operations under a structured Kubernetes cluster. Once we migrated the infrastructure, we then began to set the company up to secure strategic funding through centralized operations and financial reporting. We simultaneously started the effort to build the company's first B2C product, FlipSeats (https://flipseats.com). FlipSeats makes it easy for anyone to sell tickets across all major marketplaces with tools like pricing assistance and easy payment. I built the team and guided the initial architecture that eventually launched across web and iOS on initial launch.

Reveal Markets is a SaaS platform providing AR and AP transaction reconciliation services. I co-founded the company and led technology and operations from zero through eventual exit.What started with as a way to provide ticket sellers with better visibility into their financials turned into a platform reconciling millions of transactions per month and billions of dollars annually for hundreds of customers. This was the best-in-class product in the industry for giving sellers insights into their AR and preventing loss through AP reconciliation. Reveal Markets was acquired by Optimal Ticketing in July 2022.