Thoughts from the GridCure team

I’m a data scientist. We all wear many hats here, but the main tasks are to solve problems by turning raw data into useful answers by building predictive models.

As GridCure continues to grow, it’s important to stay connected across the company. It’s not always easy to chat around the water-cooler with colleagues in Brazil or Canada about non-work topics.

I am GridCure’s new Technical Project Manager. At GridCure I am optimizing the development process, ensuring the production of top-quality products, and making sure our clients are beyond totally satisfied.

In June 2016, the City of Columbus (Ohio) won the U.S. Department of Transportation’s $40 Million Smart City Challenge and has raised more than $100M in additional funding and sponsorships to continue smart city innovation!

We believe climate change is an important issue to tackle. In our blogpost ‘Five Ways GridCure Can Make a Global Impact’, we highlighted some of the ways GridCure can help fight climate change.

I thought it might be a good opportunity to introduce myself as one of GridCure's longtime advisors. My name is Jeff Downton, and I help the team work on big data and distributed processing problems here at GridCure.

I am a backend developer. This requires a wide range of work at GridCure, as is probably typical of many startups. I work on databases, REST APIs, data management, performance tuning, as well as software and system architecture.

Until recently, when utility teams were faced with a problem, they were often limited to one of two remedies: (1) building their own solutions internally, or (2) outsourcing the problem to a 3rd party consulting group.

Last year during Power Generation Week, GridCure had the honor of presenting our paper, The Innovation of Jordan’s Grid - The Macroeconomic Impact of a Distributed and Renewable Energy Strategy and the Analytics that Drive It, at the Renewable Energy World Conference.