About Jesse
Jesse Lind is a software engineer and operations leader running for Arapahoe County Assessor. He lives in Littleton with his wife and four young children and has been a resident of Arapahoe County since 2013.
Before his career in software, Jesse served in the Army and worked as a Denver Paramedic. He then spent four-plus years building property appraisal software: desktop comp evaluation tools and mobile inspection apps used in the field by appraisers and homeowners. That work put him deep inside the valuation process: the relevant government forms (1004, 1073, etc.), the appraisal collection and documentation processes, and the systems that verify the integrity of data submitted to lenders. Because of that experience, he understands the work.
Jesse has spent years doing the organizational work he aims to bring to the Assessor's office: clarifying who owns what, getting critical knowledge out of individuals' heads and into shared systems, documenting processes so the work continues no matter who is present, finding and removing bottlenecks, and always stopping to ask what problem is actually being solved before generating momentum in the wrong direction. He listens to the people doing the work before making decisions about tooling or process. He focuses on automation that removes busywork so staff can do the expert work people rely on them for. He runs retrospectives. He brings teams together.
Jesse sees the Assessor role as something like a chief resource officer for the department. When the team has systems that work, documentation they can trust, and tooling built around their actual needs, the quality of property assessments follows naturally. His job is to make that possible.