Team

Chas Emerick, Founder

Snowtide Informatics Systems is led by President and Founder, Chas Emerick. Chas designed and implemented PDFTextStream in 2003, and remains its primary architect. He continues to direct ongoing PDFTextStream development, but is more often found working on ways to leverage PDFTextStream's capabilities to solve extremely difficult mission-critical content extraction and conversion problems for large organizations of all kinds.

Chas dropped out of Hampshire College to found Snowtide in 2001 after studying artificial intelligence, neural networks, and philosophy of mind for 3.5 years.

Will Morgan, Member of Technical Staff

Will maintains and extends PDFTextStream, adding the features that allow customers to achieve their content extraction goals. He is also actively involved in the development of other Snowtide tools and services on the cutting edge of automated data retrieval from documents. From time to time he contributes to the internal tools that help to make the Snowtide team the model of efficiency and organization in an increasingly-complex world.

Will graduated from the University of Massachusetts' Computer Science program in 2007. He uses a wide variety of programming languages to get things done, but has a particular affinity for the more functional ones. Always learning, Will is happy to have the opportunity to solve difficult problems with smart people.

Ed Gandia, Marketing Communications Manager

As Marketing Communications Manager for Snowtide Informatics, Ed Gandia is responsible for the company's marketing materials, advertising, and public relations efforts. (We actually believe he went for the job because he ended up having the most impressive title of all of us.)

Also a freelance copywriter and marketing consultant specializing in software and technology, Ed helps high-tech companies write direct-response and marketing communications pieces that help feed pipelines and drive revenue. His focus on producing results-oriented campaigns and materials stems from a successful 11-year career in IT and industrial sales.

Ed earned a B.A. in Finance from the University of South Florida. He is an active member in Georgia's technology community, and is a member of the board of directors of the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Marketing Society.