A serial entrepreneur with 4 successful products, 3 companies and 2 exits under my belt. I'm a designer, turned coder, turned CTO, turned CEO. I'm passionate about creating products people love and make the world better.Today, I am co-founder and CEO of Crelate. Crelate exists to help businesses continuously align people with opportunity. By providing fast, flexible recruiting software, Crelate helps over 1500 talent-focused businesses engage and hire great people.I love building products. It’s hard, but one of the best parts of my life. To create something amazing, someone must will it into existence, balancing an endless stream of priorities with limited resources. I pride myself on being that someone. I'm at my best working in teams where I can leverage my background in design, customer empathy, technical expertise and business mind. Mix in a lot of hard work and the help of a great team and anything is possible.My career started at a young age; by 19 I was consulting for the Fortune 100 via FTI Consulting. Combining my creative and technical skills, I helped clients express and defend their points of view. I taught myself to code and was recruited to form the Web Development practice of The Alpha Group. Next, I co-founded my 1st product company: iCommunicate. Here we pushed the limits of the web and developed a cutting-edge hosted customer service offering. We sold to Microsoft in 2001, and I became Lead Application Architect of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. In 2004, I co-founded Invoke Systems— determined to be the #1 Dynamics CRM partner in the world. We grew rapidly, merged with Ascentium in 2007 and finally sold to Avanade in 2010. Along the way, we pioneered Dynamics CRM as a development platform, coining the term XRM and building the Tasker Management Tool, a CRM-based product now deployed Air Force-wide. I left Avanade to start Crelate and now enjoy creating products that help more people connect with more opportunity more often.