Sean GormanCo Founder

United States - Louisville, Colorado

Currently I'm working on a new start up focusing on improving the accuracy and resiliency of GPS/GNSS for mobile phones and wearables. Most recently I was an engineering manager at Snap working at the intersection of consumer mapping and augmented reality. I joined Snap through their acquisition of the Pixel8earth, a crowdsourced and perpetually updating 3D map of the globe. Before Pixel8earth I was the Head of Technical Product Management at Maxar (nee DigitalGlobe) helping build GBDX and next generation machine learning tools for satellite imagery. Previously I was a founder of Timbr.io - a platform for enabling algorithm reusability and more accessible data science - acquired by DigitalGlobe in 2016. Before starting Timbr.io I was a founder of GeoIQ - a collaborative mapping and analytics company. GeoIQ was subsequently acquired by ESRI where I worked integrating social data and streaming analytics with ESRI's mapping technologies. I've also worked in academia serving as a research professor at George Mason University. I received my PhD from George Mason University as the Provost's High Potential Research Candidate, Fisher Prize winner and an INFORMS Dissertation Prize recipient.

Specialties: My academic research was focused on complex networks and geospatial technologies, and by bizarre circumstances was featured in various media outlets. Places I managed to get our research published included Telecommunications Policy, Environment and Planning A & B, Tijdschrift voor Economische Geografie, JCCM, Networks and Spatial Economics and I also authored the book Networks, Complexity, and Security. As a result of random media coverage I served as a subject matter expert for the Critical Infrastructure Task Force and Homeland Security Advisory Council. Full list of publications is here - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9G6MyJgAAAAJ&hl=en