As Founder and CEO of Govstream.ai, I lead a mission to empower local governments with AI-driven solutions that streamline permitting and urban development. Focused on innovation and efficiency, I’m dedicated to transforming permitting from a roadblock into a catalyst for growth. We’re helping cities tackle challenges around housing, workforce, and fiscal sustainability. I’m passionate about building a company that partners with civic leaders to create smarter, more responsive communities—and I’m hiring! Reach out if you're interested in joining our journey.

Tyler acquired Socrata on April 30, 2018, forming the new Data & Insights Division. We're now bringing domain-specific solutions, based on the Socrata platform, to 15,000 government customers in all th e major public sector verticals. We are always looking for talented product leaders, and UX designers who love to build great products that matter.

We designed, developed, and successfully launched the only cloud data platform of its kind, focused exclusively on the needs of 21st century government leaders. Socrata puts data at the heart of every government program, from fighting Opioids, to making our courts efficient and equitable, to optimizing revenue and community development. Every city, county, state, and Federal agency is facing a major challenge: in a world rapidly shifting from scarce data to pervasive data, how to use this asset effectively, and across silos, to improve program outcomes? Socrata and its amazing community of customers can help.

Focused on aligning product strategy and go-to-market strategy, all the way to field execution and sales. Key accomplishments include executing a successful category expansion, deeper verticalization of Socrata’s products, and transition to enterprise sales. On track to exceed $25 million goal in ARR, achieve cash-flow break-even, and maintain net dollar retention above 120%.

Focused on mainstream market adoption of open data, and building out a world-class product management and design team. Key accomplishments include the successful market introduction of two new products for Government Performance Management and Financial Transparency –which also became a their own subcategories in gov tech–; growing revenue by 101% CAGR FY13-FY17; and successfully closing a $30M C Round.

I joined Kevin Merritt, the founder of Socrata, and a talented crew of 7 engineers to develop the open data category, build the marketing engine, guide product strategy, and win the trust of the world's leading government organizations, like NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, Medicare/HHS, the World Bank and the United Nations. After 3 years, Socrata is the recognized global leader in open data, a category McKinsey Global Institute says will unlock $3 trillion to $5 trillion in economic value around the world.

I was responsible for the strategy, market success, and P&L of a portfolio of SaaS solutions and services, focused on customer experience management. Working with some very talented people, we achieved over 300% growth YoY in recurring revenue (08-09), quadrupled the number of enterprise customers, on track for a 5-year CAGR of over 40%. In the process, we also achieved the strategic goal of transforming the relationship between a Telco and its customers from commodity provider to a solution partner.

I had an opportunity to join a high-performance team to figure out how to translate the Telco core competence of running complex services at scale, into success in the software-as-a-service space. In my first year, my focus was on strategy development, organizational buy-in, and divestment from unprofitable, or off-strategy lines of business. In a short period of time, we rationalized the solution mix to align with TELUS’s core strengths as a service provider and mobile operator, sold the businesses that were no longer on strategy, and partnered with start-ups and established SaaS companies to bring to market innovative mobile solutions and business services in healthcare and financial services verticals. Even during the transition year, we still achieved double-digit growth on a $70 million book of business.

I joined the product team to manage the re-platforming of Pivotal's products from a client-server architecture to a the then new .net 'smart client' and SOA architecture. Though it was technically very difficult, considering Pivotal had ~1,800 customers on the legacy platform, our team managed to navigate the tricky transition, and eventually release the award-winning .net based Pivotal 6.0

From private company to post-IPO, Pivotal was competing for dominance in the then nascent CRM space. I was privileged to be part of that journey, leading a very high-caliber team of web/application developers, marketers and analytics professionals, to support Pivotal's growth strategy. We reached $65 million run rate in 5 years.