aaron hunt
Chief Technology Officer / Head of Product at Traction
chief technology officer / head product manager & leader agricultural technology
enjoy career bringing new innovative product market using best technology , built outstanding team . love design validate innovative concept collaboration end-users solve real-world problem . work best-in-class team trusted partner turn design reality . past 20 year , opportunity create many innovative platform helped push industry forward . pleasure work local , regional , national , multinational customer help implement platform created business . worked industry partner big small integrate value add product service . cto traction ag , excited use experience gained designing , building , releasing large-scale platform new product scratch market .
Traction
https://www.linkedin.com/company/tractionag
As CTO and Head of Product at Traction Ag, I lead a team of fantastic engineers and top-notch product and process managers to deliver a new solution to the marketplace. As a team, we are working together to build our team identity. We define agile engineering processes that work for us and our unique team makeup. And we continue to refine the product management process and style to help better communicate with the engineers along with senior leadership, investors, and customers. In addition to our internal team, I also work with several third-party suppliers and partners to add value-added services into Traction Ag to reduce engineering effort for quicker time to market. Along with leading the engineering and product teams, I help define company direction as part of the senior leadership team. 

• As part of the executive team, help to create the strategic product vision and long term roadmaps
• Identifying opportunities that lead to the growth of the product through innovation and customer discovery
• Align the company’s technology resources with the organization’s short and long-term goals
• Identifying market or technological risks that need to be managed
• Manage engineering and product management departments
• Lead the creation and implementation of development and product management process
• Serve on the executive team as the voice of the engineering and product management teams 
• Research technologies to improve the company’s products and services
• Work with outside contractors and partners to supplement and enhance our ability to deliver
• Assist in recruiting, onboarding, and training
• Mentor new product managers and engineering leads
• UI/UX Lead Designer
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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Chief Technology Officer / Head of Product
ThreePointAg Consulting
https://www.linkedin.com/company/threepointag
When I graduated 18 years ago with a degree in Meteorology, I was not expecting to end up with a career in agriculture. While unexpected, it has been a wonderful experience to work in such an essential industry with some great people. In addition, I have been fortunate enough to bring some of the most import ag technologies platforms to the market with some great companies. 

At ThreePointAg, I want to offer my skills to help others bring their ideas to life. If you’d like to learn more about how my services can help your company, please reach out via email (aaron@threepointag.com).

Services:
• Product management
• Market research
• Industry compliance
• Next-generation technologies research 
• Product roadmaps
• Product development
• Define industry best practices
• Develop open source industry standards
• Software Development
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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Owner
DTN
https://www.linkedin.com/company/dtnllc
As a Strategic Product Manager at DTN, I was responsible for managing the successful design, development, launch, and commercialization of high-impact products. I create innovative product portfolios that drive successful outcomes to optimize the customer experience. I do this by working with multiple internal and external stakeholders, along with the comprehensive voice of customer and market research, to come up with meaningful products.  

Key Responsibilities
• Strategic product portfolio and life cycle management
• Create critical relationships with influential customers and industry thought leaders
• Analyze business areas for new/existing products and give input to the overall portfolio plan
• Develop the core positioning and messaging for the product
• Responsible for analyzing market opportunities and customer needs to define new opportunities
• Drive the need for the voice of customer and market research
• Interface with colleagues across various functional groups (Sales, Marketing, R&D, RA, QA, Manufacturing, Finance, etc.) to define goals and strategies and manage projects
• Work closely with senior leaders to ensure the product strategy is aligned with the organization's strategic goals
• Collaborate with sales to set pricing and set sales production goals
West Lafayette, IN
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Strategic Product Manager
Agrian Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/agrian
• Led Product Manager for multiple products
• Develop new market segments and revenue for Agrian  
• Continually generated new ideas to grow market share, improve customer experience and drive overall growth
• Translated product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes
• Scoped and prioritized development activities based on business and customer impact
• Worked with internal and external stakeholders to coordinate the creation and maintenance of product roadmaps, feature development priorities, and release timing
• Coordinated with sales and customer support to build testing plans, scheduled releases, and overall launch plans
• Project Manager for engineering teams to lead the delivery of optimal time-to-market products
• Created / Managed  project use cases, user stories, workflows, storyboards, mockups, epics, stories 
• Agile team leader for 10+ direct and indirect reports
• Final approver for product releases 
• Educated internal and external stakeholders on new and changing features
• Extensive travel to potential and current customers
• Guided customers and users with their transition from existing software platforms 
• Lead systems implementation into customer organization
• Participated in online and in-person training of customer personnel/users
• Provided remote and on-site sales support for current and future product offerings 
• Outline potential client needs/specifications along with sales personnel
• Collaborated with third-party partners and vendors
• Presentations at Industry Events
State College, Pennsylvania Area
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Vice President of Product Management, Agronomy
Hemisphere GPS
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In February 2012, the AgJunction division of GVM Inc. was sold to Hemisphere GPS. After the acquisition, my primary duties continued to be the same.

• Creator, Product Manager, Project Manager, Development Lead, Client Support Manager of cloud platforms
• Directed Sales to regional, national and international clientele
• Worked with customers on the creation and maintenance of roadmaps, development priorities, and release timing
• Coordinated with sales and customer support to build testing plans, scheduled releases, and overall launch plans
• Owner of the cloud platform strategy roadmap
• Built and managed a remote team of developers and customer support with 12+ direct and indirect reports
• Led customer migration, onboarding, training, and change management 
• Product implementation of cloud platforms to customer organizations
• New product development scoping, feature specifications, and timelines
• Managed Third-party relationships with hardware and software partners and suppliers
State College, Pennsylvania Area
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Director Of Technology, AgJunction
GVM, Inc
https://www.linkedin.com/company/gvm-inc
• Creator, Product Manager, Project Manager, Development Lead, Client Support Manager of cloud platforms
• Directed Sales to regional, national and international clientele
• Owner of the cloud platform strategy roadmap
• Worked with customers on the creation and maintenance of roadmaps, development priorities, and release timing
• Coordinated with sales and customer support to build testing plans, scheduled releases, and overall launch plans
• Built and managed a remote team of developers and customer support with 12+ direct and indirect reports
• Led customer migration, onboarding, training, and change management 
• Product implementation of cloud platforms to customer organizations
• New product development scoping, feature specifications, and timelines
• Managed Third-party relationships with hardware and software partners and suppliers
State College, Pennsylvania Area
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Director of Technology
ZedX, Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/zedx-inc.
• Creator, Product Manager, Project Manager, and Client Support Lead of the web-based platforms
• Product and Project Management for various government contracts and projects
• Worked with customers on the creation and maintenance of roadmaps, development priorities, and release timing
• Coordinated with sales and customer support to build testing plans, scheduled releases, and overall launch plans
• Development Manager of a large team of developers on private and government projects 
• Team lead for 20+ direct and indirect reports
• Company representative on many OEM and white label client projects
• Provided in-person customer support and training
• Organized annual product customer meetings and on-site training
• Led implementation of web platforms
• Led team recruiting, training and mentorship
• Software Developer
Bellefonte, PA
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Director of Technology
BS
Meteorology
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Penn State University
https://www.linkedin.com/school/penn-state-university/
The Technology Advisory Council provides expert guidance to Field to Market’s membership on its data and technology needs, with an emphasis on the current and future state of the Fieldprint® Platform. The council discusses and provides guidance on a range of important issues including best practices for platform integration with other tools and software; development of new features and functionality and improvements to usability; and best practices related to data storage, aggregation, reporting and privacy.
Field to Market
Technology Advisory Council
Open industry standard for the reporting of field samples (soil, plant tissue, etc...) to and from test laboratories.   Now used in over 40 labs and 10 ag software platforms.

www.modusstandard.org
MODUS Standard
Founder
AgGateway
Vice-Chair ADAPT Technical Working Group
DTN AP
https://ap.dtn.com
AgFleet was the industry first web-based precision agriculture platform. Features included soil sampling, fertility, logged data, zone making, record keeping, blending, field trials, scouting, and compliance. I led the AgFleet platform development, sales, training, and support to a growth of 20 million acres.
AgFleet
AgJunction was the agricultures first telematics cloud platform that included machine tracking and wireless file transfer. AgJunction was further enhanced to become a fully featured precision ag software. I grew and led AgJunction to cover over 50 million acres across North America. AgJunction is now the EFC Systems FieldAlytics.
AgJunction
Agriwave built of the telematics developed in AgJunction, and it was packaged with GVM application machines from the factory. Not only did this include the same GPS tracking and wireless file transfer, but live streaming machine CAN data as well. Agriwave was awarded an AE50 award.
AgriWave
Led Agrian’s expansion into new technology markets in agriculture while also overseeing some of the largest data migration from legacy systems to Agrian’s platform ever done in the industry.
Agrian
HighQ was a first of its kind community analysis software. HighQ used a combination of logged data and manually entered data to create custom community analysis of varieties and practices.
HighQ
Web-based order and delivery platform for John Deere aerial imagery products and perscriptions.
John Deere Agri Services OptioGro Imagery Platform
Satloc HQ was built on top of the AgJunction telematics backend to bring it to the aerial spray market. In combination with the Staloc G4, we brought high-frequency GPS tracking and file transfer to the aerial market.
Satloc HQ
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Node.js Essential Training
http://www.linkedin.com/learning/node-js-essential-training
Pragmatic Marketing
Pragmatic Marketing's Build
Pragmatic Marketing
Pragmatic Marketing's Focus
Pragmatic Marketing
Pragmatic Marketing's Foundations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/unclimatesmart
Omaha, NE
Matthew Boulos
Head of Strategic Sales - ClimateAi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasdmorrow
Sioux Falls, SD
Nicholas Morrow
I help companies solve the right problems • Product Leadership • Ag Technology • Automation
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenschweickert
Greater Indianapolis
Ken Schweickert
Chief Technology Officer at iink Payments
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-edmondson-a244b6a8
Regina, SK
Rebecca Edmondson
New Home Sales Consultant at Daytona Homes & Glenrose
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeltwining-56a84328
Smyrna, DE
Michael Twining
Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Willard Agri-Service
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelsey-vanoverbeke-43a88493
Fairmount, ND
Kelsey VanOverbeke
Agronomist since 2006 for Farmers Union Oil of Southern Valley & Owner at Kalos Kana LLC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthurhovater
St Louis, MO
Arthur Hovater
Director, Global Financial Planning & Analysis, Grain & Protein, at AGCO Corp
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-robinson-6444b75b
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
Ryan Robinson
Aeronautical Engineer Senior (Transmission Design) at Sikorsky
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-jordan-bear
Shelby County, TN
Jennifer Jordan-Bear Formulation Chemist
Formulation Technology Manager and Regulatory Support at Helena Agri-Enterprises, LLC
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jared-bundus-hsa-ncso-ohsp-chsc-25701066
Regina, SK
Jared Bundus HSA,NCSO,OHSP,CHSC
Regional Health & Safety Advisor at Finning Canada
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/dave-mccaffrey-03b2ba1ba
Lethbridge, AB
Dave McCaffrey
Remote Sensing Scientist, Team Lead
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/harry-getliffe-3225b246
Leicester
Harry Getliffe
SkyLift UAV
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jheremybrown
Agawam, MA
Jheremy Brown
Director of College Coverage-Perfect Game
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennedyalane
Visalia, CA
Alan Kennedy
Western Region Sales Manager at UPL
https://br.linkedin.com/in/iarly
Belo Horizonte, MG
Iarly Lana Lins
CTO at Siteware
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-faleide-036b43b5
Wheatland, ND
Nathan Faleide
Independent AgTech Connoisseur and Creator of Easy Observations newsletter dealing with Agriculture and Earth Observation
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-young-usmc-raider
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
Robert Young
Talent Attraction Consultant at TE Connectivity Aerospace, Defense & Marine
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessiepotterton
Mineral Point, WI
Jessie Potterton
Empowering people and businesses through energetic and passionate organizational support and leadership.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphael-figueiredo-a2908b41
Greater Houston
Raphael Figueiredo
Sales, Service Delivery, Technical Support, Operations, Business Development, Training
https://br.linkedin.com/in/andrea-iabrudi-tavares-b2a74a25
Belo Horizonte, MG
Andrea Iabrudi Tavares
R&D Director at Cadence Design Systems
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        I had the pleasure to meet Aaron when Hemisphere GPS acquired AgJunction.  Aaron is unique in his ability to identify opportunities in agriculture and quickly solve them with software solutions in a practical low cost way.  I highly recommend his leadership, he gets results.
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Updated video on all of the Traction Field features! Use it with Traction Agronomy or the sample app for your agronomy system of choice.
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Amazing to think the time has finally come! Driveless tractors directly off the production line.
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Launceston
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Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area
Aaron H.
Lead Software Engineer, Platform Architect at InMoment
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Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
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Founder/Therapist at Aaron Hunt LPC
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Pearland, TX
Aaron Hunt
Owner, Hunt Realty
AGRI JOBS Agriculturalist Veterinary Dairy Milk Production Organic Farming Agronomist Fruit & Veg
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