Seattle, WA, August 28, 2009 — Bluyah, an on-demand data transformation service company based in Seattle announced today that it has tapped start-up veteran Tom Crowder as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
“Tom has a tremendous depth of experience, particularly with early-stage companies,” said Richard Luck, Bluyah’s founder. “He’s been involved at the ground level with companies like Monet and TTM and knows how to navigate the waters in the infancy stages of development. Given his history – and success – with these groups, we are thrilled to have him on our team.”
Crowder has over 15 years of finance and accounting experience in the telecommunications and real estate industries. Prior to joining Bluyah, he served as Director of Finance and Business Development at Telecom Transport Management (TTM), a telecom start-up based in Seattle. Prior to TTM, Crowder was Chief Financial Officer of iPoint Networks, until its sale to Impart Networks, and was a founding team member at Monet Mobile Networks (formerly Burst Wireless), the first wireless carrier to deploy mobile broadband services in the United States.
Crowder holds a M.S. in Finance from Seattle University and a B.S. in Business Administration from The Citadel. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
About Bluyah Bluyah provides cloud-based on-demand data transformation services for business and municipality IT teams, enabling them to dramatically decrease their development costs and speed up time to market of critical application enhancements.
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Contact Information Adam Plenkovich
206-518-3404 press@bluyah.com
Version 1.0.1 of the Bluyah app was released today. The following bug fixes and enhancements are included:
Fixed a problem where creating a new Marquee could throw a fatal error if created against an RSS feed that contained no data. [Ticket #198]
Fixed an issue with charts where IE users (gotta love IE!!) were not able to view or edit any charts. [Ticket #212]
Hardened all of the Exports to better inform the user if they were attempting to render an export against a deactivated (or deleted) report. [Ticket #85]
In a related issue, changed the list display for Reports and Exports to highlight those items where the underlying data Connector had been invalidated. This should make it easier for users to know when a connection to their data source can not be made (Feed went away, or DB password is no longer valid, etc.). [Ticket #208]
Added logic to the Report create/edit screen to prevent users from creating a report with a name that is already in use. [Ticket #187]
All exports in the Export list now contain a direct link to their underlying report. This should make it easier for you to make tweaks to the right report, if needed. [Ticket #126]
Added better messaging to the Google Docs parser to inform users if their underlying spreadsheet is in a format that can not be understood by Bluyah (hint: All reportable columns MUST have a column name in row 1). [Ticket #214]
Added support for Microsoft SQL Server database Connector. This has been a much-requested feature - so have at it. [Ticket #111]
Just to keep everyone up to date: DB2 and PostgreSQL database support is coming soon. We’re still running through all of the test cases, so thanks for your continued patience. We will let everyone know via Twitter when we have settled on the actual launch date. You are following us on Twitter, right?
Here we present a screencast demonstrating the steps you would go through to create a Google Map from an RSS feed, as was described in the post “Fun With Google Maps“:
