Meet Our New Staff: Jeremy Heffner

Vol. 4 Issue 4
September 2009

Azavea Journal

Next time you drop by our Philadelphia offices to say hi, don't be surprised to find us wearing mustaches, trench coats, and conversing with our good friend Dr. Watson. For the past several months we've been sleuthing, exploring, and solving spatial mysteries. We've developed new ways to search Japanese Gardens, have traversed the entire Philadelphia map to determine the most 'walkable' neighborhoods in the city, and have added heat map 'hunch' visualizations to our HunchLab software. Our newly exercised sleuthing skills enabled us to find ourselves among the ranks of the 2009 Inc. Magazine 500|5000 list of the nation's fastest growing companies! Welcome to another edition of the Azavea Journal.

Jeremy Heffner, Business Development Associate

Jeremy Heffner joins Azavea as a Business Development Associate. Coming to us from the nonprofit technology sector, he will be supporting the marketing and business development teams with writing content for our marketing pieces, managing our web presence, developing product campaigns, and researching trends in the technologies impacting our work. He most recently worked at NPower Pennsylvania where he helped local nonprofits to better utilize technology by producing educational seminars and implementing constituent relationship management databases. When he’s not tweaking settings on our two blogs (Atlas and Labs), fiddling with our Google Analytics account, writing press releases or trying to persuade Robert to upgrade our CRM to SalesForce, he’s enjoying life in South Philadelphia writing content for his own blog on his Mac and reading about the latest tech fad. Did we mention he’s obsessed with technology?