executive team

Simeon Cathey, Chief Software Architect

Avitiva’s Chief Software Architect is partner and co-founder Simeon Cathey. Simeon’s responsibilities include account management, technical sales and oversight of software and product development.

Simeon has nine years of experience building information and document management applications for businesses. Prior to co-founding Avitiva, Simeon was a software engineer and product manager for the Microsoft Publishing and Knowledge Management team.

Simeon began architecting SharePoint^© Server technologies well before the launch of SharePoint^©; by the time Microsoft released versions 1 and 2, he recognized a great opportunity to help businesses increase productivity through these technologies both as an internal and external hosted offering. During his Microsoft tenure, Simeon developed an intimate understanding of the business needs that prompt the evolution of portal and search technologies.

As a graphic designer, Simeon also brings sound technical understanding, creativity and fun to his leadership role at Avitiva. Embracing the ever-changing nature of technology, he thrives on mental challenges and finds excitement and professional rewards in solving new problems, helping others around him become successful, and improving business processes at the core level. He is co-author of Wiley Publishing’s Microsoft^© SharePoint^© Server 2007 Bible.