Digital mapping software company Deep Local has quietly grown in East Liberty, more than doubling in size since it started up in September 2006, hiring 3 new software engineers and several staff, bringing the team to nine.
Joining the company is David Evans, a senior software engineer who previously worked for local startup Health Monitoring Systems. Evans joins other senior software engineer hires Mark Nutter, who has more than 25 years of experience with Marconi, and Scott Connelly, who has a decade of experience with local companies FORE Systems and CSC. Greg Mueller, who is finishing his degree at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), joins as an interaction designer and Beth Friel is the new chief financial officer, previously COO of local software company MAYA Viz where she played a key role in its acquisition by General Dynamics. Todd Graf, owner of HiFade.com, will assist part-time with sales.
“Watching our company grow to include so many talented designers and technologists from within this region has been exciting for me both as a CEO and as an avid promoter of Pittsburgh,” says Nathan Martin, chief executive officer. “Smart creative people live here.”
The company develops web-based collaborative mapping software with support from local funder, Idea Foundry. Its innovative, social network based Maphub makes it possible for users to contribute, visualize, and validate information from disparate data sources and user-generated knowledge, offering a level of interaction unmatched by broad based maps built on top of Google, Yahoo, Mapquest and Microsoft, adds Martin.
Writer: Debra Diamond Smit
Source: Nathan Martin, DeepLocal
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