Ben Swenka

Current

• Principal at Barometer Group
• Owner at Swenka-Jones, LLC

Past

• Senior Principal at Trexin
• Chief Technology Officer at Parallel Technologies
• Owner at Blondies Cafe

• Director, Technology at Perficient
• Manager at Bearingpoint
• Senior Consultant at Javelin Solutions
• Prinicipal Consultant at Systems Consulting Group
• Test Engineer at Motorola
• Systems Analyst at University of Iowa College of Medicine

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Education

• University of Iowa

Recommended

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Connections

281 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Ben Swenka’s Experience

• Principal

  Barometer Group

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2008 — Present (2 years )

• Owner

  Swenka-Jones, LLC

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Real Estate industry)

  December 2005 — Present (4 years 1 month)

• Senior Principal

  Trexin

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2008 — June 2009 (8 months)

• Chief Technology Officer

  Parallel Technologies

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  May 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 8 months)

• Owner

  Blondies Cafe

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Restaurants industry)

  December 2004 — November 2007 (3 years )

• Director, Technology

  Perficient

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; PRFT; Computer Software industry)

  May 2003 — May 2006 (3 years 1 month)

• Manager

  Bearingpoint

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BE; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2001 — May 2003 (2 years 3 months)

• Senior Consultant

  Javelin Solutions

  (Computer Networking industry)

  1999 — 2001 (2 years )

• Prinicipal Consultant

  Systems Consulting Group

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 1996 — November 1999 (3 years 1 month)

• Test Engineer

  Motorola

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  May 1994 — November 1996 (2 years 7 months)

• Systems Analyst

  University of Iowa College of Medicine

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Education Management industry)

  May 1992 — May 1994 (2 years 1 month)

Ben Swenka’s Education

• University of Iowa

  BSEE , Electrical and Computer Engineering , 1991 — 1995

  Activities and Societies:

  University of Iowa Rugby Club - President, IEEE - President, Hawkeye Engineer - Treasurer

Additional Information

Ben Swenka’s Groups:

University of Iowa Rugby Football Club, Metropolis Rugby Football Club, Four Hour Work Week Readers

•    Enterprise Architect (Sparx Systems) User Group
•    BearingPoint Alumni Group
•    CISCO
•    Service Oriented Architecture Special Interest Group
•    The Enterprise Architecture Network
•    Healthcare Technology Alliance
•    Minnesota Networking Group
•    Open Source Cloud Computing & Virtualization
•    University of Iowa Alumni Networking
•    CXO (CEO, COO, CKO, CFO, CMO, CAO, CVO, CDO, CRO, CLO, CSO & CTO) Community
•    LinkedMinnesota
•    Java EE Professionals
•    Twin Cities Software Consultants
•    SOA Experts
•    Java Developers
•    Javelin Solutions Alumni
•    Perficient Alumni

Ben Swenka’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch