Brandi Vandegriff

Practitioner

Crosslake Technologies

Jul 2025 - Current (1 year 1 month)

Crosslake Practitioner partnering with PE firms & portfolio companies on a project basis for Tech Due Diligence and product/engineering/tech-ops advisory. My focus areas include: - Buy-side and sell-side diligence: Evaluating scalability, architecture, team structure, technical debt, and integration risk. - Technology strategy: Advising leadership teams on product modernization, AI/ML initiatives, cloud migration, and offshore team design. - Value creation planning: Identifying opportunities to accelerate growth, streamline operations, and unlock platform value. I bring hands-on CTO experience scaling SaaS companies and transforming service-based businesses into software-driven platforms. At Crosslake, I apply that experience to help inv

Chief Technology Advisor, Fractional CTO

Ajax Analytics Inc

Mar 2025 - Current (1 year 5 months)

Chief Technical Advisor at Ajax Analytics, leveraging data analytics and AI to drive innovation in clean technology. Passionate about using cutting-edge technology to optimize sustainability, enhance environmental insights, and accelerate the transition to a greener future. Focused on guiding technical strategies, optimizing product development, and delivering scalable solutions that make a real impact.

Chief Technology Officer

Alchemer

May 2021 - Mar 2025 (3 years 11 months)

As Chief Technology Officer at Alchemer, I led the development of a world-class technology organization that enhanced our product offerings with meaningful and innovative functionalities. My leadership focused on driving business growth through strategic planning and the integration of cutting-edge technologies, including the launch of Alchemer Workflow, Alchemer Pulse and Alchemer Digital. Under my guidance, our team delivered solutions that empowered our customers to transition seamlessly from data collection to informed action. My efforts were recognized when I received the CIO of the Year award from the Colorado Technology Association, acknowledging my role in using technology as a catalyst for organizational efficiency and growth. - S

Chief Technology Officer - CTO

KPA

Jan 2019 - May 2021 (2 years 5 months)

• Built a world-class development team and managed 80 team members. • Led company’s digital transformation to a fully-integrated customer journey. • Launched and integrated Salesforce Lightning across the organization. • Developed mobile application rewrite and launched mobile app.

Vice President Of Technology

KPA LLC

Nov 2015 - Dec 2018 (3 years 2 months)

• Led technology teams to optimize development practices, processes, and application architecture. • Collaborated with senior business executives to increase the value of technology in the organization. • Oversaw the development and rationalization of a three-year product roadmap. • Implemented process and business improvements including Salesforce and new ERP tools.

Director of Information Technology

Level Communications

Oct 2012 - Oct 2015 (3 years 1 month)

• Led development, deployment, and support of revenue-generating customer applications for Level 3, overseeing a portfolio of 27 applications. • Managed architecture teams to deliver top 10 customer applications and provided technical direction in M&A projects. • Supervised resource management for a staff of 27 directly and 120 indirectly.

Director of Technology

Location

Jul 2010 - Oct 2012 (2 years 4 months)

• Rebuilt Location3 Media's data management platform and infrastructure to support advanced applications. • Oversaw selection and management of vendors for new data management platform implementation. • Directed project to consolidate data center to privately-hosted Cloud, reducing operational costs.

Development Team Lead

Level Communications

Jul 2007 - Jun 2010 (3 years)

Performed development planning and leadership for a team of software developers both on and offshore. - Worked heavily with the business stakeholders to align UI Development team requirements with the system specifications for a Business Process Management application. - Ensured all deliverables are prepared to satisfy the project requirements, schedule. - Coordinated and tracked the reviews, documentation, test activities. - Coordinated meetings with the functional management to discuss project impediments, needed resources and issues/delays in meeting release deadlines.

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Consultant

Laurel Hill GIS

Mar 2007 - Mar 2009 (2 years 1 month)

Collaborated on custom GIS Application Development. Using Agile Practices delivered stable, responsive applications that utilized ArcGIS technologies. Developed integrated a suite of GIS Quality Assurance applications that helps customers audit the quality of their data on both Java and .net platforms.

Sr Software Engineer

Level Communications

Jul 2005 - Jul 2007 (2 years 1 month)

Assigned, coordinated and reviewed the work of employees and contractors on a .net development team. Consulted with management and systems analysis personnel to clarify programming and coding requirements. Developed on multiple .net web applications as well as contributed to a customized .net framework that provided custom web controls and security. Designed user interfaces for consumer-facing- business applications as well as business-facing-business applications to drive Business Process Management.

Consultant

Software Architect

Dec 2004 - Jul 2005 (8 months)

Designed and developed software for the Telecommunications Industry. Applied the theories and principles of computer science and mathematical analysis to create, test, and evaluate the software applications and systems. My role quickly transitioned into systems analysis as the changes in technology and new areas of specialization arose with the contracts.

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