Augsburg University

Tech and Biz Solution Provider

Manage dev teams on various software development projects.

Scalable Path

Strategic Advisor

• Hired gun for all matters related to web and mobile technologies.

Trevor Wencl consulting

Principal

North American representative, manager, and evangelist.

TRISOFT Group

General Manager

• Transformed an idea and zero code to viability by interviewing, hiring, managing and mentoring an engineering and design team both local and distributed throughout the US, Europe and South America.
• Responsible for everything relating to the tech department including financial planning and operational expenses, budgeting, team management, internal support, software architecture, AWS system administration, release, monitoring, performance, security and scalability.
• Responsible for all design & tech deliverables from concept, business impact, prioritization, architecture, specs, agile development and release.
• Traveled to promote and evangelize Vacatia as well as do due diligence on 3rd party companies to determine technical viability, profitability, risk assessment, and implementation challenges for join venture and strategic partnerships.

Vacatia

Director Of Engineering

Lead a distributed team of developers across various timezones and continents. Administered servers, release management and more. Technologies include Symfony2, PHP, MySQL, Joyent Cloud, JQuery, CSS, Assetic, AWS, S3, Git, etc.

Storevantage

Lead Developer

SEO driven website builder for the Attorney vertical. Technologies include: Symfony1.4, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, JQuery, SASS, CSS, Assetic, Twig, Handlebars, Duplicity, S3, Chargify, Zendesk, Bluga, Rackspace, OpenSRS, and more.

Sites For Law Firms

Software Architect

Software development with large data sets. Parallel processing with Gearman. SEO and SEM analytics reporting for high volume clients. Built muti-tiered invoicing system.

Acquired by Q3 Digital to form the Bay Area's largest media company: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/220056/3q-digital-acquires-isearch-media.html

Isearch Media, Inc

Software Consultant

Click Group, Inc.

• Co-Founded, conceptualized, boostrapped, lead development on and maintained this website builder for independent bands.
• Participated in all aspects of business development, legal issues, strategic partnering, product road mapping, budgeting,
overseeing customer support, design and marketing voice, SEO/SEM and market research.
• Innovated in a crowded market place by being the first to provide a basic website builder to bands using the freemium model,
thus taking advantage of the long tail economic paradigm to quickly grab market share.
• Managed and mentored a distributed team of developers and support staff across California and India.
• Architected the system, designed database schema, system architecture, release & rollback procedures, work flow processes,
and ergency contingency plans.
• Built a rewarding and productive work environment that is purely remote and virtual without the cost of a central meeting place
or office.
• Heavily integrated with 3rd party APIs including Bitly, Twitter, PayPal, Google Analytics, Google Maps, Artist Data, ZenDesk,
Tunezee and more.

Pencl Labs, Inc.

Co-Founder & CTO

• Built and launched full-featured, high-traffic LAMP stack artist fanclubs as ticketing pass-throughs to Ticketmaster in extremely short timeframes and with shifting requirements. Sites include thewho.com, u2.com, kissonline.com, justintimberlakefanclub.com, zztop.com, and many more.
• Significantly advanced the custom framework and administrative back-end CMS application.
• Learned WebObjects and rebuilt the front-end commerce system, fanfire.com, in less than 2 weeks. At the time, FanFire was
the 3rd largest WebObjects site in terms of traffic and revenue (next to iTunes.com and Apple.com).
• Built authentication API using PHP and a custom Apache module written in C to allow 3rd party content providers to provide
protected, expire-able URLs to their content.
• Introduced coding practices and workflow procedures to make configuration environmentally generic to ensure sites are
developed and deployed in a consistent manor.
• Created multiple APIs that allow for various levels of interaction between the WebObjects commerce system and over 20 high-
traffic PHP based artist fan club sites.

Signatures Network

Senior Application Engineer

World Of Good

Web Engineer

• Responsible for full life cycle development, from initial conceptual architecture through documentation, development, testing and release. Managed large releases and ensured that target dates and projects requirements were always met.
• Built and managed high traffic commerce, provisioning, fulfillment, and reporting systems back-end to front-end.
• Developed a commerce framework which provided the ability to serve multiple websites with different product suites and different fulfillment requirements off of one code-base, attaining nearly 100% core code reuse. Products included domain
registration, hosting, email and DNS products as well as a geo-centric yellow page product.
• Built a flexible scalable messaging and queue infrastructure to contend with integrated, disparate systems and their inherent
network failures. Systems include multiple registries, multiple web hosting providers, DNS, WHOIS and email servers, and 3rd
party resellers.
• Built XML/Java Servlet WebService APIs, including a RPC order API used by 3rd party domain resellers.