MANAGEMENT TEAM

Terence CraigTerence Craig
Founder, CEO & CTO
LinkedIn, Twitter

"Big data analytics can be used to improve all sorts of human endeavors, from medicine to ecommerce. PatternBuilders makes big data accessible by delivering tools that lower the barriers to analyzing it."

Terence has an extensive background in building, implementing, and selling analytically-driven enterprise applications across such diverse domains as enterprise resource planning (ERP), professional services automation (PSA), and semi-conductor process control and analytics in both public and private companies. With over 20 years of experience in both executive and technical management roles with leading-edge private and public technology companies, Terence brings a unique and innovative view of what is needed—from both an operational and technology perspective—to build a world class analytics platform that is focused on the innovative development of analytic applications designed to improve companies’ and organizations’ profitability and efficiencies. He is also a speaker, blogger (on all things big data and analytics plus lots of other stuff), and author of "Privacy and Big Data" (due out this summer). Never shy to share his opinion, Terence had this to say during a round table discussion at pii2011 about big data information collection that was used to break down the door of an innocent family: “It used to be that it took weeks to accumulate that data. Now technology allows stupid people to be stupid much faster.” (T-Shirts are in the works and will be available for purchase soon). 

Most recently, as the CEO and co-founder of Optimize Solutions, Terence was responsible for all its business operations as well as the development of a professional services automation solution that captured data from key resources and provided analytics and performance metrics to ensure the success of complex projects. Optimize's unique technology won awards for innovation and was sold and deployed at leading edge companies like Veritas and Stratus Computers.

Prior to Optimize, Terence was Chief Architect and Sr. Engineering Manager at ConsenSys software, a Mayfield-backed startup, where he managed the team that successfully shipped three releases of the first Web-based product in the Product Lifecycle industry. Prior to ConsenSys, Terence was a founding member and data architect of the KLA/Tencor team that created the semi-conductor industry's first graphical yield management system, the KLA 2550, using a combination of data gathering techniques and analytics. The 2550 allowed semiconductor manufacturers to proactively manage yields via real-time data and image analysis dramatically improving ramp up times and profitability of wafer fabrication operations (we have no idea what this means but after numerous discussions, decided to quote him directly—if you’re in the semiconductor business we’re sure that you know what he’s talking about). Prior to KLA, as a senior consultant for Informix and PricewaterhouseCoopers, Terence worked for clients, such as Silicon Graphics, Muzak, and the California Public Retirement System, on their business process and technology issues, establishing metrics and performance baselines that would enable them to operate more efficiently.

Terence has a degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin with an undeclared minor in Electrical Engineering.


Mary LudloffMary Ludloff
Vice President, Marketing
LinkedIn, Twitter

"Big data and analytics are requirements for any company that wants to dominate their industry. From a BI perspective, it's very clear that current solutions are either too hard to use or require too many highly skilled resources. Our solutions fix this: they are powerful and easy-to-use, enabling every company to prosper in this new world where data is the key to success."

Mary is an innovative executive with more than 20 years of experience in the high tech industry. When it comes to marketing she has, in her own words, “been there, done that and often, with little or no budget.” Our translation: Mary understands how to develop and implement strategic program initiatives that span marketing disciplines—ranging from the traditional corporate and marketing fields to the latest developments in digital marketing (yes, much more descriptive and far less interesting than her own words). Through her work at Brio Technology (now Hyperion) and NONSTOP Solutions (now Manhattan Associates), Mary also brings a deep understanding of supply chain management issues as well as the use of business intelligence tools in data warehousing and analytic application efforts. Mary is co-author of “Informix Guide to SQL: Tutorial,” and “Privacy and Big Data” (due out from O’Reilly Media in late summer), a frequent white paper contributor, an editor of Object Request Broker (ORB) programmer reference manuals and tutorials for Visigenic Software, and a blogger on diverse topics such as big data and analytics from a technology and business perspective, data security, data privacy, and marketing in the digital age.

Mary likes to characterize herself as the non-technical member of the team (she is “in marketing” after all), but we know that if you’ve ever discussed multi-echelon inventory optimization, big data mashups, or the abuse of the word “realtime” as it applies to any analytics or business intelligence solutions, you would be rolling your eyes. In short, she is able to understand the complex technical issues we deal with on a daily basis and always brings us back to the most important question: how does this benefit our customers?

Most recently, Mary served as Senior Director of Corporate Marketing at NONSTOP Solutions (now Evant), a leading provider of demand chain management solutions for retailers and distributors of finished goods. Prior to Evant, Mary served as Vice President of Marketing for Optimize Solutions, a professional services automation solution provider where she was responsible for all aspects of marketing and technical communications. Prior to Optimize, as Senior Director of Marketing at Brio Technology (now Hyperion), a leading provider of business intelligence tools, Mary spearheaded marketing efforts geared at establishing the use of business intelligence tools in the development of analytic applications that analyzed key business performance indicators and provided ways in which to achieve operational efficiencies. In addition, Mary served as a Director in a variety of marketing and technical communications disciplines at RightWorks, SQRIBE Technologies, and Visigenic Software (now Borland Software Corporation).

Mary received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Stanford University.


Andy LyakhovetskiyAndy Lyakhovetskiy
Senior Director, Network Operations and Infrastructure

“Today, companies are offered many different solution deployment options. Those options should be backed by deep and broad infrastructure expertise to ensure security and performance. I was deploying secure, scalable, hosted systems around the world while most of the cloud ‘experts’ were still in their nappies. When it comes to your infrastructure, however you chose to do it, experience matters.”

Andy has over 20 years experience (and more than 100 installations) in network design and development, troubleshooting, and administration. Andy is responsible for designing, developing, managing, and scaling PatternBuilders own network as well as all of its customers’ installations for PatternBuilders’ cloud, hybrid, and dedicated colocation models. He has managed global infrastructure and database rollouts for many large companies including Cisco, Clorox, Visx, Netgear, Safeway, and others (the list goes on and on). Quite frankly, we think of him as the best “network and infrastructure guy” in the Fortune 500.

Andy's knowledge of networks, storage, hosted systems, SaaS, virtualization, computer and security infrastructure of all kinds, is both broad and deep. At Netgear, Inc., a worldwide leader in networking products, Andy designed and implemented a global infrastructure that supports multiple business applications and data sources while providing secure remote access for corporate resources from multiple sites. He was also responsible for integrating Ironport's and Cisco's corporate networks after Cisco acquired Ironport Systems.

Andy has also worked as a senior network consultant and architect for system integration companies Net4Bay, LLC, and Edge Information Systems. While there, he worked on and managed projects for clients such as American Licorice, California Micro Devices, Command Audio Corporation, Cardiac Pathways Corp., First Franklin Financial, Gymboree, and Samsung Corp.

A computer engineering graduate from the Aviation Engineering Institute in Moscow, Russia, Andy also helped to develop the programs and infrastructure for Russia's Space Shuttle and HPC program.


Tim LyakhovetskiyTim Lyakhovetskiy
Lead Server Developer
LinkedIn

“Analytic solutions should be like cars—there’s a powerful engine under the hood but anyone can drive it. We take care of the engine, you know how to drive your business.”

Tim is responsible for much of the performance and flexibility of the PatternBuilders platform – developing the algorithms and systems that power our highly scalable analytics, web services, and user interfaces. While the list of Tim’s skills is very long (if you are interested, please see his LinkedIn profile), it is safe to say that his major focus is on .NET/C# programming in client/server environments using XML technologies and web services as well as the design, development, testing and support of application software.

We think of Tim as the PatternBuilders wunderkind (in his opinion, a bit over the top but bear with us). If you look up wunderkind in Wikipedia, you will find this definition:  someone, typically younger than 18 years old, who is performing at the level of a highly trained adult in a very demanding field of endeavor. While in high school, Tim worked as a developer for Stanford University’s Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) program, developed sample applications for Hawk Software’s Open Network Library, created a game engine, was a contributing author for "Game Programming How To’s" (his topic: Polygon Culling using OctTrees), won the Davidson Fellowship Award for Computer Science, and was a recipient of the California Governor’s Scholarship Award (multiple times). In our opinion, he certainly meets the criteria!

Most recently, Tim worked for Control Point Corporation, an engineering firm that specialized in the design and integration of complex systems for the Department Of Defense. As a software engineer there, Tim helped to design and develop next generation maintenance/logistics information systems for the Future Combat Systems project commissioned by the United States Army. Prior to Control Point, Tim worked for ThinkingVOICE Networks, integrating web-based CRM data from a number of different sources into a VoIP platform as well as designing and developing parts of their Software Development Kit and back end. The system he helped architect  survived for three years (and was used by thousands of customers) without any further engineering effort or customer service support.

In his copious amounts of spare time, Tim is a co-founder and guitarist of the metal band Nekrogoblikon and has performed almost 100 West Coast concerts with them over the past five years. One more thing: although Tim may be one of the smartest programmers we know, unlike many others with these kinds of credentials, he is also one of the nicest people and a consummate team player (there may be an “I” in Tim but with him, it’s all about the team).