Experience

Nave Analytics, Inc.

• Farming
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder & CTO

  • Jun 2023 - Present

  United States Developing B2B solutions for water sustainability decision making at scale



VRS Consult Plus L

• Owner

  • Jun 2021 - Present

  St Louis, Missouri, United States - water sustainability - remote sensing technology and applications at scale - data quality and coherence



The Climate Corporation

• Canada
• Renewables & Environment

• Research Lead: Image Based Irrigation

  • Oct 2018 - Jun 2021

  Greater St. Louis Area - lead a team of PhD level researchers and geospatial engineers - developed science roadmap of image based irrigation recommendation product with defined product development priorities and timelines - performed initial customer value assessment and led field trials of alpha product version in commercial settings - designed and executed global product testing experiments across North America, South America, Europe - set up academic and industry partnerships - worked with… Show more - lead a team of PhD level researchers and geospatial engineers - developed science roadmap of image based irrigation recommendation product with defined product development priorities and timelines - performed initial customer value assessment and led field trials of alpha product version in commercial settings - designed and executed global product testing experiments across North America, South America, Europe - set up academic and industry partnerships - worked with product team stakeholders on releasing minimum viable product in target geography - set goals and lead career development of junior colleagues

• Senior Remote Sensing Scientist

  • Sep 2015 - Sep 2018

  Saint Louis, MO - led development of remote sensing based models and data assimilation frameworks for continues monitoring of crop canopy properties - designed and executed field trials, field sampling campaigns and field imaging campaigns covering wide geographies - supervised academic collaborations - led planning and analysis of customer imagery coverage, vendor evaluation and contract guidance - developed customer value based specifications for new sensor platforms



South Dakota State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Research Professor

  • Aug 2013 - Sep 2015

  Brookings, SD - refactored and optimized Global WELD production system for porting into supercomputing environment at NASA Ames Research Center - combined Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 data streams into one production line - developed compositing algorithms - developed visualization and QA tools for WELD products

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Aug 2011 - Aug 2013

  Brookings, SD - design, development, refactoring and testing of NASA funded WELD project production routines. - optimized MODIS based atmospheric correction of CONUS WELD Landsat 7 data to reduce IO and improve processing speed. - standardized production routines and product formatting for WELD Land Cover Land Use Change product

• Graduate research assistant; Scientific Programmer

  • Aug 2006 - Jul 2011

  Brookings, SD -work on PhD dissertation entitled “Development and validation of the Event Driven Phenology Model" -supported multiple NASA and USGS funded projects -begin work for Web Enabled Landsat Data (WELD) project by writing cloud mask subroutines and on-flight subsetting and mosaicking tool used for interactive product delivery



EPAM Systems

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• GUI Developer and Technical Writer

  • Sep 2004 - Jul 2006

  Kiev, Ukraine - developed web interface for FIX protocol engine - documented workflows on all FIX products - supported marketing team and helped with FPL expo presentations