Jim Welch
Engineering and Pre-Sales Solutions Leader
About
At leading mobility and location based services companies, I've recruited, mentored and led technical teams to deliver cloud native solutions that drive sales results. Primary focus areas include new mobility services (MaaS), autonomous mobility on demand, location based services (LBS) and last mile logistics.Work Experience
Head of Solutions Engineering
Lead sales/services technical team in positioning customized mapping stack for last mile delivery and logistics service customers and prospects. Evangelize APIs and SDKs to developer community across multiple industry verticals and use cases.
Highlights
- Cross-organizational responsibilities for map data production, machine learning models, and SaaS based location based services platform
- Lead product initiatives in development of mapping and navigation SDK's
- Spearhead the development of new product initiatives for complex vehicle routing problem use cases
Head of Mobility Platform Services Architecture
Member of leadership team tasked with defining all operational support models, customer engagement processes, and associated monitoring metrics for SaaS mobility and logistics services platform.
Highlights
- Responsibility for launch of new mobility service initiatives in coordination with OEM partners and platform providers.
- Successful launch in partnership with leading mobility company of an on-demand, last mile delivery truck sharing service.
Global Director Solutions Engineering
Global director of all pre-sales and launch activities focused on autonomous shuttle programs for public transit agencies/operators and private shared mobility services.
Highlights
- Successful launch of a high-growth, differentiated ride hailing mobility service currently launched in six(6) major US markets - Alto - Rideshare. Refined
Senior Director Solutions Engineering
Grew and led a distributed pre-sales engineering team responsible for all technical aspects of pipeline sales opportunities. Acted as player-coach working with the complete end-to-end mobility solution provided by Ridecell - full stack and mobile environments
Highlights
- Defined, developed, and delivered the initial version of mobility management platform. Result: close of the contract with the highest profile company in the on-demand, autonomous vehicle space
Senior Director Professional Services
Manage a combined team of internal project managers, offshore development resources, and third party contractors in specifying, designing, and delivering LBS solutions that leverage deCarta's products and services.
Highlights
- Coordinated the development and delivery of four private label personal navigation and connected navigation products to a leading consumer electronics retailer in the US. Result: Genesis of a new category of connected personal navigation device for a major US consumer electronics retailer.
- Spearheaded the pre-sales, solution architecture, and delivery of a mobile, online navigation application for the leading personal navigation provider in Europe. Result: Opened new partnerships and sales channels for the company.
CTO - Founder
Dublin, OH/Seattle, WA
CTO and founder of company providing fleet management and mobility applications to the transportation industry. Supervise the specification,development,testing,delivery and service of on-demand dispatch solutions.
Highlights
- Develop sales and distribution channels for wireless solutions through international divisions of Motorola, Inc. in Europe and the Pacific Rim. Result:launched products in seven international markets with more than 75,000 mobile subscribers.
- Successfully launched a suite of mobile messaging products in partnership with a major European carrier that leveraged location based services(LBS) and mobile payment services(m-payment).
- Coordinated the successful partnership among technology providers in the development of a mobility product for a major European transit agency.Result:Solution exceeded the requirements of all of the stakeholders.
Contact
Dublin, Ohio
US
+1-614-596-9141
Education
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United States Naval Academy
BS Computer Science
Annapolis, MD
Highlights- #1 graduate in major
- Top 5% of all graduates
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The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business
Masters Business Administration
Columbus, OH
Highlights- Entrepreneurship emphasis
Skills
Location Based Services
Geospatial Technologies
Telematics
Navigation Systems
Map Data Production/ML Pipelines
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud Native Architecture
Software Development
Mobile Applications
Enterprise Software
Solution Selling
Integration
Military Leadership
SaaS
Technical Project Leadership
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Professional Services
Agile Methodologies
Cloud Development
Product Management
Mobile Technology
Mobile Devices
Speaking/Articles
2019 Texas Mobility Summit
Plenary sessions and presentation on Bestmile Service Design
Smart Columbus - Mobility Hackathon
Sponsor, speaking and mentoring
NB.ai VRP Product Video
NB.ai brings together a collection of services to deliver an end-to-end optimization solution for last mile delivery.
Spatial Insider Webinar - No-Code/Low-Code Location Based Services Development
Online webinar, video and code walkthrough.
Spatial Insider Webinar - Making the Change
Why (& How) To Break Up With Mapbox’s Proprietary License
References
'...incredibly dedicated hard worker, outstanding technical professional and consummate professional.'
'...works exceedingly well with customers.'
'...would re-hire Jim in an instant.'
'...smart and creative great at engaging with customers.'
'...truly professional in all his interactions with colleagues and customers.
'...very good at everything I have seen him do.'
'...a tireless advocate for customers inside the company and a tactful representative of the company in front of them.'
'....a great technical leader.'
'...hands-on when needed and otherwise comfortable in delegating.'
'...would love to work with him again.'