His 6-foot-5 frame hunched towards a laptop, Ressi trains a finger at a column of numbers, each data point like a genetic marker in the DNA of an entrepreneur.
The challenge for the designer is to choose the right marker with which to represent the data point, with size and color being the most prominent considerations.
Walking among the headstones recently, Silvia who was among the first female West Point graduates in 1980 points out Revolutionary War-era dead and stoops down to tidy the marker for a recently deceased colonel she admired.