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Conversations w/ the gurus of RVA's tech scene, including start-up founders, corporate execs, and world-class engineers. Hosted by deep learning diver + armchair movie critic - Zak Brown.
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Your new rvatech/Talks host Zak Brown kicks off season 3 by talking with Alex Miller, founder and organizer of the Strange Loop conference. Join us as we discuss what it takes to build out a truly "Strange" tech community that can withstand the test of time.
ICYMI - ProductFest RVA sold out for the first year, so catch the lunchtime roundtable episode hosted LIVE on the stage with Richmond's Product Gurus: Devin Smith - Experience Principal at Active Digital, Isaiah Harvin - Senior Product Manager at Disney Streaming, and Amy O'Callaghan - Head of Product at Vangst
Subash is an energetic and inspiring individual who can make anybody a believer in how valuable their data is. They see value in data when others just see it as a thing to retain and archive. When Subash hears of a company using an application to run their business and doesn't use any of it, they get pumped because that indicates there is a ton of valuable data.Misspellings (for search purposes): Subash, Sabash, habash, habas, datagoodness, r-coder, python, senior analyst, seeking data scienc...
Todd is the Chief Information Officer at Estes Express Lines, which is North America’s largest, privately owned freight carrier. He’s responsible for directing and developing Estes’ IT management functions to not only deliver outstanding results for the company’s business, but also to drive its culture — and the vision for Estes’ IT road map. Before joining Estes in 2020, Todd was Vice President at Celerity, responsible for leading their Enterprise Agility Service offerings and driving transf...
Brandon is an Enterprise Architect at CarMax, focusing on their software platforms that drive innovation. He is passionate about helping teams create amazing customer experiences through cloud architecture, lean software development, and product discovery. He specializes in the principles and practices that make for continuous delivery, and his team builds the tools, APIs, patterns, practices, training, and frameworks to help other teams get there. He loves helping teams achieve speed, qualit...
Andrew is a data-driven marketer, speaker, and problem solver. He co-founded Workshop Digital in 2015 and as the VP of Strategy he devotes his time to developing new tools and strategies to help Workshop Digital’s teams and clients achieve their goals. Andrew regularly speaks to marketing and professional audiences with an authentic, passionate message to raise their collective marketing intelligence.Andrew collects hobbies and devotes his time to his family, competing in triathlons, amateur ...
Ryan leads the North America practice for Accenture Security. He is responsible for nurturing the talented teams that bring transformative solutions to better defend and protect our clients. He is also accountable for delivering on our commitment to clients for high-quality, innovative delivery to address their most critical issues.Throughout his entrepreneurial career at Accenture, he has excelled at identifying new areas of opportunity, growth and under-penetrated markets and then driving t...
Tom Illmensee is a product strategist, user experience designer and researcher, startup coach, entrepreneur, music-maker, improviser, truth-seeker, and community organizer based in Richmond, Virginia. Tom is a Principal Product Strategist at Philosophie, a digital innovation studio. Tom is also co-founder and CEO of Orbital Music Park, an inclusive community and creative space for music-makers.
1Omar Ansari is a Senior Software Engineer at SVT Robotics, a startup dedicated to developing a rapid deployment platform for industrial robotics and software. Previously Omar worked as a Lead Software Engineer at CarMax. After working with robots all day he likes to hang out with with his wife, Emma, and two cats, Kisses 1 & Kisses 2. If you want to talk to him, you’ll probably find him at Mekong in Richmond, VA (post-pandemic, of course!).
Director, IT Software Engineering at the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), reports to the Chief Technology Officer and has 4 Software Engineering Managers reporting to her with an additional 60+-member team. She is responsible for directing the activities associated with programming and engineering all changes within the UNetSM platform, Salesforce platform, application architecture, and software quality assurance. Ms. Wilson has been with UNOS in IT for 5 and years. Prior to this, she...
Luke Rabin is co-founder and Product Lead of BLDR, a startup studio and product architecture firm focusing on creating new tech products from scratch. Luke is also a drummer, record producer, wood worker, and dad to his amazing little 3 year old daughter, Vera.
Ryan Shriver, Chief Technology Officer, specializes in solving complex technical problems and is a trusted partner to some of our biggest clients. Ryan is passionate about teaching and mentoring: in addition to leading our Cloud and DevOps team, Ryan teaches Problem Solving for Designers at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Arts.Chris Belyea is SingleStone’s Cloud and DevOps Technical Director. Chris guides clients through Cloud and DevOps transformations, including cloud strategy,...
Greg is a Senior Computer Scientist with broad academic, technical, research, and leadership experience. His areas of expertise include Software Engineering and Systems, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Information Assurance, and Mobile Computing. He spent over 4 years as a Master Software Engineer with Capital One and is has now been with Terazo for over 2 years where he recently moved into the role of Market Technical Director. Greg has developed graduate and undergraduate programs, curr...
Julia is an innovative leader with a rich Interdisciplinary background blending vision, strategy, systems thinking, data science, and machine-learning engineering to drive innovation within organizations. She has the ability to lead cross-functional team development and delivery of data/algorithmic products and services, influence the adoption of new technologies and organizational work structures, and evangelize the long-term vision of an augmented algorithmic organization.She is currently l...
David is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Forestry Machine Learning, which is a strategic partner for companies that seek to gain competitive advantage through data and artificial intelligence. Following the successful acquisition of his last startup and leading a consulting organization in Capital One's Center for Machine Learning, he wanted to get back to my passion as an entrepreneur. David is a former Director of Machine Learning at Capital One. His team, in the Center for Machi...
Melanie is a full time Managing Vice President of IT at Capital One where she works with the technology team that helps keep the business running. In her “spare time”, she’s volunteering for community and civic organizations. She serves as the Board Chair for Full Circle Grief Center, putting in countless hours and supporting families who have lost children, parents and loved ones. Melanie is also a member of the Westhampton Woman’s Club where she helps support a wide range of charities. She ...
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