Armando Guevara, PhD

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For over 25 years the group has operated across the United States, Mexico, Central America, and Venezuela. Delivering autonomous intelligent security solutions for defense, public safety, and commercial enterprises. Pioneer in geospatial robotics: the convergence of geospatial technology, location intelligence, and artificial intelligence to move security from reactive monitoring to proactive, AI-enabled prevention.

• Holds comprehensive strategic, operational, and P&L responsibility across the group's global footprint.
• Spearheaded the company's evolution from GIS and high-resolution aerial imaging integration into cutting-edge geospatial robotics and AI.
• Architected autonomous systems designed to sense, decide, and act in the field to eliminate security vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure.

Recruited to lead a strategic turnaround of this industry-leading software sensor technology company. Delivered world-class geoimaging solutions for airborne, terrestrial, and mobile platforms. Achieved official USGS Sensor Type Certification, established a landmark intellectual property portfolio, and won the prestigious World Geospatial Forum 2013 Sensor Technology Innovation Award.

• Held total corporate accountability for vision, R&D roadmap, capitalization, and global P&L management.
• Led the conception, architecture, and deployment of the patented iOne Software Sensor Tool Kit Architecture (iOne STKA).
• Engineered the industry's most economical, high-performance metric 2D, oblique, and 3D sensor products to 'geoimage the 3D world online.'
• Executed commercial OEM and licensing agreements with global partners, including SOMAG (gyro mounts), BroadSpot (retinal imaging), and Acute3D.

Led international business development with direct focus on Latin America for Intergraph's Fortune 1000 GIS/Mapping and Federal divisions. Software and hardware manufacturer serving federal defense, plant design, mapping, and emergency 911 services.

• Co-led the launch of the revolutionary GeoMedia product line and introduced the term "geospatial" into the corporate product taxonomy.
• Negotiated strategic joint ventures with regional partners, achieving 100% regional sales and distribution coverage in Latin America in under 12 months.
• Spearheaded expansion into high-growth enterprise geolocation technologies, delivering sharp competitive advantages against traditional GIS vendors.
• Advised the CEO and executive board on global product roadmap and international corporate strategy.

Provided global business and technical leadership for this pioneer of location-based wireless communication technology and spatial services.

• Established corporate commercial strategy and built high-performing sales channels throughout Latin America from the ground up.
• Within two years, scaled LATAM operations to generate revenues far exceeding annual corporate projections.
• Served on the Genasys Technical Advisory Board, establishing modern development standards based on component-ware and object-oriented architectures.

Core foundational contributor to the world leader in GIS software. One of the principal designers and software developers of ArcInfo (the technology foundation of modern ArcGIS) from Version 1 through Version 6.2.

• Co-designed the first versions of ArcView, TIN, GRID, Build, Clean, Overlay, and Librarian subsystems (computational geometry-based systems).
• Invented and developed a revolutionary sorting processor to accelerate the intersection of two planar graphs in 2D space and reconstruct the topological result.
• Created a novel geometric processor providing faster, mathematically rigorous topological overlays across Build, Clean, Intersect, Join, Update, and Erase.
• Authored the industry's first algorithm suite for Triangular Irregular Network (TIN) surface modeling.
• Co-designed the curriculum and taught ESRI's very first official ArcInfo Training Course and Systems Programming academy.
• Co-founded ESRI's first commercial Sales Distributor Network across Latin America and Spain, which remains thriving to this day.