Steven Franchi
Enterprise Software Engineering

Steven Franchi has over 30 years of experience in software development, hardware design, testing and integration.  Bring an idea to Steven that has never been done and that people say can’t be done, and he’ll do it. As Earth Knowledge breaks into innovative terrain for the financial services and corporate sectors, building our Petascale Digital Twin of the Earth, Steven is devoted to building the most powerful tools to drive a green economy.

Steven’s background includes software engineering roles at General Dynamics, Hughes Missile Systems, Raytheon Missile Systems, Roche Diagnostics-Ventana Medical Systems, Oxford International and Catalina Technologies.  His experience and expertise are in software development for new products under development and managing multiple iterations of development hardware under proof-of-concept initiatives. He has extensive experience creating embedded systems from conception to production and performing customer-forward application development using various languages and operating systems. 

Steven earned his MS in Computer Information Systems at the University of Phoenix and his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. He is trained in Six Sigma and Agile software development and received technical recognition as Engineer with Honors from Raytheon.