Our blog has been kinda quiet lately and for that I apologize. I plan on making sure that changes and we’re back to the regularly active blog you’ve come to love. On to the topic at hand…
Traditionally, spring is the time of renewal and rebirth, but CRT has never been one to follow some conventions. While we’ve been quiet, CRT has been in the process of what we’ve affectionately called rebooting.
5 years ago this past August, CRT was created. In the beginning CRT was just two people: Mark Lesswing and myself. Over time we added staff. As we hit our five year anniversary, Mark was promoted to NAR’s CTO. I was then asked to head up CRT and I accepted the challenge. At first, due to various staffing changes, CRT was back down to two people: myself and Ian Smith. Luckily this has changed.
I’m happy to announce that Chris McKeever (who’s been mentioned here before) has joined us. Chris was the Shiva of Prudential Preferred Properties - Chicago. We would call this role the Director of Technology. During his 5 years with Prudential, he worked closely with other senior management to develop the strategic vision for the company. He played key roles in integrating Prudential with the eRealty Platform, as well as their relationship with Google, which eventually went on to be launched as one of the first Real Estate applications based on Google Earth.
If you remember when Google Earth was first released as a free product, Chris was clearly leading the pack by having this application out within 12 hours. It became an Internet sensation. Of course, this caused him extra work trying to keep the servers up since the whole net was hitting them at once.
Congratulations Keith!
Congratulations on acquiring Chris McKeever. Although I haven't had contact with him in years, my IT staff has had very positive things to say about him. On the other hand, we hate to see a client lose someone like Chris.