Companies

Professional Experience

February 2023 - Present
EasyLocates
Head of Product & Operations

Owner / Operator

Responsible for go-to-market strategy for US expansion, including revamped software architecture and unlocking 811 integrations across all 50 states.

December 2021 - February 2023
LandUp
Co-founder / Head of Product

First-time founder

Head of product & engineering for a platform designed to empower land owners to monetize their land, with a focus on sustainability and stewardship. Raised $2mm in venture funds, led by NFX.

Nov 2019 - May 2021
Granicus
Director of Engineering

Host Compliance was acquired by Granicus in November 2019.

Led all engineering efforts within the Host Compliance business line, identifying opportunites to work across the suite of government products Granicus had to offer.

Oct 2018 - Nov 2019
Host Compliance
Director of Engineering

Helped build the leading compliance platform for short-term rentals, enabling cities around the country to enforce their STR ordinances. Team built out a vast network of crawlers, ML models, hotline IVR, highly configurable registration flows, letters, and plenty of behind-the-scenes infrastructure work to keep it all running as the company grew in size and scope.

Apr 2017 - October 2018
SiriusXM
Director of Platform Engineering

Automatic Labs was acquired by SiriusXM in April 2017.

Continued my work from the Automatic Labs division, improving our integrations with auto-insurance providers while leveraging SiriusXM's reach and enteraintment expertise.

September 2014 - April 2017
Automatic Labs
Lead Enterprise Engineer

Helped build the premier connected car platform for Automatic users and developers. Managing strategic partnerships with fortune 500 companies, I led development efforts for pay as you go insurance and algorithmic insurance discounts. My first opportunity to see product obsession and IOT-scale infrastructure, data science, and mobile development.

June 2013 - August 2014
Urban Mapping
Operations Engineer

Nimble, quick startup. Learned how software was shipped in a "cloud-first" environment. AngularJS websites. Python data scraping, and learning how to keep a production system alive & beating.

January 2010 - June 2013
Bowhead
GIS Specialist

Federal contractor, worked with the fine folks of USACE and NOAA, providing spatial analysis in support of keeping our country's channels clear for commerce and our natural resources protected.


Giving Back

Volunteer Experience

Jan 2016 - Jan 2021
The Last Mile
Tutor / Mentor

Visited San Quentin Prison to provide hands-on assistance to incarcerated individuals, learning web development, with the goal of helping to reduce recidivism and bring diversity to tech. During the pandemic, I met weekly with recent graduates of the Last Mile program, working with them throughout their job search.


Education

Qualifications

Aug 2005 - December 2009
University of Kansas
B.S.

Found my passion at the intersection of maps and computers. Receiving my B.S. in Geographical Information & Analysis, I utilized spatial tools like GIS and "ArcObjects" to perform spatial analyses. The first time I saw a line of code, through the magical lens of Visual Basic 💾 -- I was hooked


Skills

Technology, Tools, & Process

Python

91%

Customer & Product Discovery

61%

Scaling bits

82%

Scaling humans

64%

Product Research

81%

Windows

11%

Typescript / Javascript

85%

HTML

65%