Grant Fitzsimmons
Product Manager at Specify Collections Consortium
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolGrant Fitzsimmons is a product manager with eight years of experience building and supporting biodiversity data systems, currently leading product and user success at the Specify Collections Consortium. He bridges technical operations and community engagement—supporting 400+ research collections, managing 80+ cloud-hosted Specify instances across DigitalOcean, AWS, and DreamHost, and contributing code and documentation on GitHub. Grant prioritizes features from direct user feedback, runs workshops and webinars worldwide, and maintains the active Specify Community Forum with 450+ topics to accelerate user adoption. His background in business administration and information systems informs a pragmatic approach to product strategy, while hands-on ops work (databases, SSL, web servers) keeps him close to the stack. Notably, his role combines customer success, open-source contribution, and multi-cloud infrastructure management for niche scientific software.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
CIMBA Italy Study Abroad Program, Business Economics / Global Marketing, CIMBA Italy Study Abroad Program, Business Economics / Global Marketing at CIMBABachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Administration and Management, General at Johnson County Community CollegeBachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Administration, Management and Operations at The University of Kansas School of Business
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Github Skills (35)
science10
biodiversity9
backlight8
monitors8
biodiversity-informatics8
portal8
energy-data8
brightness7
carbon-emissions7
climate-science7
renewable-energy7
energy7
photovoltaic7
ocean7
collections6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
grantfitzsimmons/grantfitzsimmons.github.io
Mar 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
grantfitzsimmons/portfolio
Aug 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:70 pushes in 5 months
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