Company
"We are very pleased with our investment. We have many more internet/intranet projects that will incorporate NetCharts….Visual Mining solutions allows this to occur while maintaining our 'thin-client' goals."
— David Reese, Chevron
Management Team
Tristan Ziegler, President and CEO
Mark Brandau, Vice President of Marketing
Jim Kitterman, Director of Channel Sales
Kevin Scott, Vice President of Engineering & Client Services
Bruce Duncan, Chief Architect and Director of Engineering
Craig E. Hohlbein, Director of Client Services
Tristan Ziegler
President and CEO
A certified public accountant with more than eighteen years of accounting, finance and operations experience, Mr. Ziegler has held several positions during his tenure at Visual Mining, previously serving as the Company's CFO and most recently its COO. He began his career with Ernst & Young, working with a variety of manufacturing and healthcare clients, then later moved into corporate and partnership taxation with the firm. Following public accounting, he gained experience in treasury management with a large utility company, responsible for daily cash management and investment decisions for a $200 million plus portfolio, banking relations, and overall responsibility for the accounting and analysis of the $700 million pension plan.
Prior to joining Visual Mining, Inc. in June 1999, Mr. Ziegler served as the Director of Corporate Accounting for Snyder Communications, Inc., a publicly traded global provider of integrated marketing solutions focusing primarily on Fortune 500 size companies. During his tenure, Mr. Ziegler gained invaluable experience with SEC reporting requirements, SEC filings, and the worldwide consolidation and integration of the accounting functions of acquired entities as Snyder grew from an $80 million company to $800 million in three years.
Mr. Ziegler holds a B.S. in accounting and finance with honors from the University of Maryland, College Park, and is a member of both the AICPA and MACPA.
Mark Brandau
Vice President of Marketing
With more than 20 years of proven marketing leadership experience, Mr. Mark Brandau directs Visual Mining’s marketing organization. Specifically, he leads corporate, product, and partner marketing in delivering tactical and strategic plans that achieve Visual Mining organizational objectives. Prior to joining Visual Mining, Mr. Brandau held senior marketing and product management positions at successful start-ups, and Fortune 1000 organizations such as LSI Logic, Inc., Softek Storage Solutions (acquired by IBM), Appfluent Technology, Inc., Legato Systems (acquired by EMC), FileTek, Inc. , and Phillips International.
Mr. Brandau holds a M.B.A. , Magna Cum Laude, from Marymount University, Arlington Virginia. He is also a published author, and frequent speaker at industry events around the world.
Jim Kitterman
Director of Channel Sales
With more than 15 years of experience in software and high technology, Mr. Kitterman brings a wealth of sales and partner management experience to Visual Mining.
Prior to joining Visual Mining, Mr. Kitterman was the Director of Partner Programs for Clarabridge, Inc. where he created and managed their partner ecosystem. His previous experience includes management positions with Oracle, Siebel Systems and Hyperion (both acquired by Oracle). Throughout his career, he has worked with and led partner programs of all types and sizes – from global systems integrators to local, niche value-added distributors.
Mr. Kitterman holds a B.A from Purdue University.
Kevin Scott
Vice President of Engineering & Client Services
Kevin Scott has 20 years experience defining software projects and leading the teams that build, deliver and support them. He has held several positions with increasing degrees of responsibility at Visual Mining, currently directing the Company's Product Development and Professional Services organizations.
Before joining Visual Mining, Mr. Scott spent two years conducting telemedicine research at the U.S. Government's National Library of Medicine.
Mr. Scott is also co-inventor of software that allows networked computers to cooperatively monitor complex real-time systems. In 1995 this software was adopted by NASA as the mechanism to distribute real-time information in the Space Shuttle Mission Control Center. It currently acquires 28,000 Space Shuttle sensor values per second and distributes them across the Internet to research facilities worldwide. This software is also in use in the Hubble Space Telescope Control Center, in Russia's space program, and is a component of the onboard software for the International Space Station.
Mr. Scott has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois.
Bruce Duncan
Chief Architect and Director of Engineering
Bruce Duncan serves as Visual Mining's Chief Architect and Director of Engineering. He joined Visual Mining in 1998 and has served as the lead programmer on NetCharts Applets, principal engineer on NetCharts Server and architect and principal engineer for NetCharts Performance Dashboards.
In 2004 he was appointed Chief Architect for all of Visual Mining's software products. Mr. Duncan also oversees Visual Mining's use of and contributions to Open Source software.
Mr. Duncan holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science from Loyola College in Maryland and has had research published in the proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Program Comprehension.
Craig E. Hohlbein
Director of Client Services
As Director of Client Services, Craig E. Hohlbein is currently responsible for leading the Professional Services team. Mr. Hohlbein oversees consulting engagements with clients, as well as product support. Since joining Visual Mining in January 2002 as a Senior Software Engineer, Craig has participated in the development of each of Visual Mining's products.
Before joining Visual Mining, Mr. Hohlbein worked with both public and private companies to develop reporting and portal software using various technologies. Mr. Hohlbein's background experience with Microsoft platform development, wireless technologies and both client and server-based solutions has enhanced the output and integration of NetCharts Server. These implementations now allow NetCharts Server to be a flexible solution, that is compatible with a wide variety of platforms and servers.