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Jane Devon: Design
An established and innovative web site creator and designer, Jane has worked with many brands, large and small. She is an expert in both brand creation and caretaking. Jane led creative groups at CKS, USWeb/CKS, Liquid Thinking and Pearson Branded. She has worked with the SpanStrategies team for over 5 years as Creative Director.
Jane was Creative Director/Partner at USWeb/CKS where she was best known for her web site creations, including Timberland, Fujitsu, Macromedia and Clinique. The Clinique site in 1996 was one of the first to incorporate database-driven content and personalization. Another account she and her team of designers were responsible for was Mazda, including two complete redesigns of mazdausa.com, as well as numerous on-line marketing initiatives.
During this time she helped brand egg.com, an innovative U.K. bank. She was also worldwide creative director of the USWeb/CKS team responsible for the creation of the on-line European trade magazine, Trader.com. To do this, she led creative teams in Paris, Geneva, Belgium, Cupertino and Seattle.
At Liquid Thinking she helped grow the agency to 98 people including a strong creative and UI team of 24. There she helped many start-up companies brand themselves from the ground up, as well as established companies such as Asera, Cypress SemiConductor and Wrigley.
At Pearson Branded, Jane was hired to build a creative team that would compliment the technical and strategic teams already there. During this period she worked primarily on Hewlett Packard accounts and internal marketing. One of these marketing efforts recently won an Addy Award.
Jane’s earlier experience includes designing multi-media projects in London for American Express, Conde Nast, Omega, and Pentax.
She received her B.A. (hons) in graphic design from Humberside University in England.
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Sameer Patel: Strategy and Numbers
Sameer is the CEO and Co-Founder of ZapTXT. Sameer has spent 9 years consulting to sales and marketing units of large enterprises, helping them define and source applications that enable content creation, management and dissemination to improve lead and revenue generation. Over the course of his consulting career Sameer has sourced over 40 million in new technology investments that improve ROI on lead generation, field marketing communication, sales operations, marketing spend forecasting and customer relationship management.
Sameer’s client roster has included BitTorrent, Sun Microsystems, Ingres, McKessonHBOC, WR Wrigley Jr. Co., The Sabre Group, Grupo Televisa (Mx), and Cardinal Health. He also helped build technology-enabled business execution consulting practices for Liquid Thinking and for marchFIRST (formerly USWeb/CKS) before founding SpanStrategies.
His client advisory work has included the following: Business Intelligence for Direct Sales Force for a Fortune 500 high-tech company. Field Marketing Communication and Collaboration for a leading high-tech company. Unified Customer and Partner Interaction for an entertainment and media start-up with $350 million in funding. Marketing Collateral Management and Global Fulfillment Sourcing for a Fortune 500 hi-tech company. Global Marketing Spend Forecasting and Reporting for a Fortune 500 hi-tech company. ROI sales tool for global sales force of a leading hi-tech company. Sales and Marketing Business Intelligence for Channel Sales for a Fortune 500 high-tech company. Employee Collaboration and Communication for a Fortune 500 healthcare company Enterprise Knowledge Management for a Fortune 500 consumer products company. Sameer holds a Bachelors degree in Corporate Finance and Economics from Babson College in Wellesley, MA and a Masters degree in Management Information Systems (MIS) from Boston University’s School of Management (Masters thesis in Knowledge Management), in Boston MA. He is also a certified Associate in Risk Management (ARM) by the AICPCU.
Sameer is a former state-ranked swimmer and a former nationally ranked squash player when he lived in India.
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Eduard Sherstnev: Application Development
Eduard is the application developer that keeps ZapTXT up and running.
He spent his early career as a database architect and later building database driven applications, working as an in house engineer and a consultant for companies such as Sybase, USWeb/CKS and Liquid Thinking. Some of his clients have included Sybase, Williams Sonoma and Cypress Semiconductor.
Eduard has a computer science degree and comes to the United States from the Ural Mountains in Russia.
Eduard is an avid tri-athlete and a former competitive swimmer from St. Petersburg, Russia. He wrote the first incarnation of ZapTXT so he could monitor new gigs on Craigslist from his mobile phone whilst training for triathlons.
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Paul Vaillant: Enterprise Architecture
Paul oversees Enterprise Architecture and Integration at ZapTXT. Paul brings 10 years of Application Architecture and Infrastructure Management experience to ZapTXT. Most recently Paul has been an Advisory and
Architect for organizations such as ZCL Composites, The Edmonton Police Service, Royal Canadian Mounted Police & The Edmonton Economic Development Corp. Previously, Paul was an Infrastructure/Security Architect at PCL
Constructors Worldwide and CTO at Ekota Central.
A native of Edmonton, Paul received his degree in Computer Engineering from
the University of Alberta.
Paul is an avid diy'er with an interest in offgrid and renewable energy
systems.
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Xavier Vanvlasselaer: Production
Xavier has worked for large web-development and technology consulting companies, including USWeb and Liquid Thinking in San Francisco. Xavier serves as Director of Web Production at SpanStrategies where he manages a team of web producers.
Xavier’s competencies extend across a broad set of presentation layer and other technologies. He leverages his hands on knowledge of PHP, JavaScript (Ajax), Ruby, Cold Fusion, ASP, JSP, XHTML, CSS, VB Script, XML, XSLT, SQL, etc, to tailor his solutions to user requirements as well as technical realities of the underlying system.
Xavier has led presentation layer engagements for leading clients including:
Ingres, BitTorrent, Sun Microsystems, ZapTxt, Certicom, The Information Week Portal, J.M. Wrigley Jr. Company, Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Cypress Semiconductor, The Computer World Information Portal, The James Irvine Foundation, Octane Ventures, Mirion Technologies and Global Dosimetry Solutions.
He was educated in Belgium with a degree in graphic arts from HIGRO (High Institute for Graphical Arts).
Xavier is an avid triathlete who in 2004 competed for Team USA in the World Championships Long Course ITU in Sweden.
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