Ethan Brown

Bio

As founder of OptionLab Inc., I am responsible for the growth of the company and direction of the product. I have a passion for helping people and organizations make better decisions, and OptionLab is software that facilitates data-driven, collaborative decisions. For the last four years, I served as a Vice President at VMS, a consulting firm that helped multidisciplinary teams make decisions about large transportation and infrastructure projects (among others). We recognized that the same techniques that can help government agencies make better project decisions could help so many people in so many industries. Even personal decisions! It was from this collaboration that OptionLab was born. I have many years of experience in web-based software development. I am the author of two O'Reilly Press titles, Learning JavaScript, 3rd Edition, and Web Development With Node and Express. My undergraduate work was in mathematics and computer science, and I have a broad and diverse background in software technologies. I also hold an MBA from Portland State University.