Brian Jacobs joins Azavea as Graphic Designer with over 8 years experience designing for the web and print amidst exposure to GIS and a neuroscience education. He was recently employed by the West Virginia GIS Technical Center, a state and academic organization, where he produced user-friendly geospatial applications and their surrounding websites while enjoying regional cuisine (pepperoni rolls) and a heightened appreciation of Appalachia. At Azavea, he will be working on all aspects of print and web design activities related to the marketing and branding of Azavea, our custom web applications, and products (check out the DecisionTree website, designed by Brian). A Long Island native, Brian enjoys a great bagel, epic cinema and music, hiking in the backwoods, biking in the streets, and the future of technology.
Hatef Yamini joins Azavea as Marketing Manager with over 16 years of sales and marketing experience. He will contribute to both the online and offline efforts to communicate the value of Azavea’s services and products (including the production of several new Azavea product websites including DecisionTree®, a set of web-based planning and prioritization tools; Kaleidocade™ , a web-based software program that displays maps, charts, tables, statistics and reports for aggregated, geographic indicators; and Sajara® Azavea’s geographic asset management tool). Most recently, Hatef was employed as a Business Development Manager at Care2. In his spare time, Hatef enjoys photography, the outdoors, the performing arts and involvement in the NetImpact and NetSquared communities-and his lucky goldfish.
Kenneth Shepard joins Azavea as Software Developer on our Law Enforcement team. He previously worked in the financial services world, where he designed and developed several applications used for the automated electronic trading of various financial instruments. Several of the projects on which he will be working are the Philadelphia Police Department’s Public CrimeMap application; the HunchLab™ software system designed to identify and warn relevant authorities about changes and aberrations in the patterns of geographic events (such as crime); and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms’ Firearms Analysis System. He has recently moved to Philadelphia from Connecticut, and is having fun exploring the radically different environment. He enjoys yoga, cooking, snowboarding, and music.