Personal

Terry Cabeen (any pronouns) is a non-binary husband and father (among many other things). He has lived in the Denver, Colorado, USA area since 2008 and loves some of the outdoorsy stuff, but also digs a good deal of indoor stuff. He's a serial hobbyist, oscillating from Archery, Baking, and Carpentry to Gardening, Jewelry-making, and Painting. His hobbies are so important, he considers them proper nouns. He prefers EVs for the lower maintenance and exquisite torque. He enjoys sweets, coffee, and whiskey. Wine is ok as long as it's mulled or sparkling. He's ridden in a hot air balloon and snorkeled with a barracuda. But most of all, he wishes he could hang out with his kids right now. He is not particularly fond of referring to himself in the third person.

Professional

His career has largely been data-centric, from analysis to engineering, but he's also been making websites since the glory days of Geocities. (Area 51 represent!) Today he prefers to work with the people who work with the technology, but gets giddy about throwing together a website or ridiculously complex SQL query. He has run intern programs, managed billion-dollar teams, and served as CTO for a brilliant startup, overseeing the development of V2 application and writing the V2 website. He's actually pretty decent with everything from product knowledge to marketing skills, and he knows good UX design when he sees it. (Though he'd rather work from a style guidelines document than produce it.) He is pretty much never not thinking about how to make people's lives better and how to make computers more efficient at doing the boring things that humans don't want to do.

In his current role, he manages a team of data engineers at a virtual power plant, helping to manage energy utilization to improve grid resilience, reduce energy costs, and decarbonize electrification. The company does this by managing load through the control of smart devices through utility programs. Terry immediately connected with the company's mission and has been really enjoying the role. While he works in the realms of data and energy, he workes in the function of people leadership and in the service of improving everyone's quality of life at least a little.

His résumé can be found here.

Purpose

Terry has translated a lifetime of skills into effective leadership. With hard-won career growth, he is driven to provide better mentorship and guidance than he has. With empathy as his driving force, he earns the respect of his teams and peers, helps them excel in their work, and ensures they consistently have high satisfaction and low stress. This isn't because the work is easy, but because his teams feel fully supported.

He has ADHD and has found ways to successfully managed it. For a long time, he worked to mask it from others, concerned that the stigma would be damaging to his career. He embraces it today, however, and uses it not as an excuse, but as a superpower that comes with manageable costs. He thinks outside the box effortlessly, effectively switches context rapidly, and frequently identifies the connections between things before they are obvious. These skills lend themselves powerfully to leadership roles.

This site is a space for thinking out loud about data, leadership, the direction of technology, and creating things that (hopefully) matter. Terry is also driven to shre, mentor, and help however he can. If you're interested in tapping his galaxy brain for some out-of-the-box thinking, reach out.