Career

Experience

20+ years of building, leading, and delivering.

Chief Technology Officer

September 2021 — Present

National Land Realty · Omaha, NE and Greenville, SC

  • Rearchitected legacy platforms to Laravel on AWS, achieving 99.9% uptime through zero downtime deployments
  • Cut annual hosting costs and improved page load speeds by 40% through cloud consolidation and autoscaling
  • Built and shipped BI dashboards and interactive mapping platforms used by 450+ agents nationwide
  • Increased deployment frequency by 300% and reduced defect rates by 28% through DevSecOps and CI/CD implementation
  • Built and mentored a high performing agile engineering team from the ground up
  • Translate business strategy into technical roadmaps directly with executive leadership

Director of GIS and Technology

2017 — 2021

National Land Realty · Omaha, NE

  • Architected Land Tour 360, an immersive 360 degree property touring platform integrating imagery, video, and spatial data
  • Built LandBase, a free public land sales platform that drove 150% organic traffic growth
  • Managed 800+ GIS projects annually delivering client facing data products and spatial intelligence solutions

Director of Operations

2009 — 2017

The Mapping Network · Omaha, NE

  • Led 1,700+ hydrographic surveys and sediment studies from RFP through final delivery
  • Introduced 3D modeling, drone based aerial imagery, and point cloud processing
  • Built and managed a nationwide vendor network

Co Founder and GIS Consultant

2013 — 2016

Velosys · Omaha, NE

  • Co founded and developed an online real estate and land management GIS application
  • Automated manual workflows using Python and ModelBuilder, saving 60+ hours per state per year

GIS Analyst

2007 — 2009

Cabelas Trophy Properties · Sidney, NE

  • Maintained enterprise GIS databases and designed 3D visualizations for Cabelas Outdoor Adventures
  • Delivered GIS training programs for 300+ real estate agents

GIS Technician

2004 — 2007

Farmers National Company · Omaha, NE

  • Created 1,200+ soil and crop yield maps for farm management and real estate use
  • Developed Python and SQL automation tools saving 65+ hours of manual data entry

Education

Foundations

  • Master of Arts in Geography, University of Nebraska at Omaha
  • Bachelor of Science in Geography, University of Nebraska at Omaha
  • GIScience Certificate, University of Nebraska at Omaha