Chas Emerick

Current

Founder and CEO at Snowtide Informatics Systems, Inc.

Past

Software Developer at The Hartford
Software Developer at High Roads (née: Insurance Engine)

Education

Hampshire College

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Industry

Computer Software

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Chas Emerick’s Summary

I founded Snowtide Informatics in 2001, which now sells PDFTextStream, an enterprise-class Java, .NET, and Python library specializing in the extraction of text and other content from PDF documents. PDFTextStream has found significant success in the marketplace, and I continue to push towards making it the gold standard in its niche.

I have a deep background in software development and computer science. My professional work has always been related to shoehorning 'intelligent' behaviour into software that can do real work.

Looking ahead, my interests and responsibilities are shifting towards software as a service (SaaS), business development, and finance within the context of a growing, bootstrapped software company.

Chas Emerick’s Specialties:

Automated extraction of content and data from unstructured documents; document management in general; legal case management; financial data analysis; adaptive systems; neural networks; genetic programming; functional programming; rule-based systems.

Chas Emerick’s Experience

Founder and CEO

Snowtide Informatics Systems, Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

May 2001 — Present (8 years 3 months)
Software Developer

The Hartford

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HIG; Insurance industry)

October 2002 — April 2005 (2 years 7 months)
Software Developer

High Roads (née: Insurance Engine)

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2001 — October 2001 (3 months)