
President / CEO at Markzware
Greater Los Angeles Area

President / CEO at Markzware
Greater Los Angeles Area
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1993 — Present (16 years)
I am President of Markzware, the company that I co-founded in 1993. Markzware became incorporated in 1995. We develop data conversion and quality control (preflight) software (FlightCheck) for the graphic arts, printing and publishing industries. Our target audiences include users of Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, and Microsoft Publisher.
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
1989 — 1995 (6 years)
Created layouts for Mazda print brochures.
(Graphic Design industry)
1986 — 1989 (3 years)
Created advertising, business forms and corporate branding.
(Publishing industry)
July 1989 — November 1989 (5 months)
Created pages for "F.I.G.S Form," a daily horseracing newspaper where I met my future partner of Markzware, Ron Crandall.
(Computer Software industry)
1984 — 1987 (3 years)
Conceptualizing and markup for typesetting of advertisements for the newspaper.
(Graphic Design industry)
July 1985 — July 1986 (1 year 1 month)
Designed and typeset insurance forms. (Worked at the Register Newspaper simultaneously.)
(Graphic Design industry)
January 1984 — August 1984 (8 months)
Typeset advertisements and full-production for the Horsetrader Magazine, a publication for trade printers.
(Graphic Design industry)
August 1983 — August 1984 (1 year 1 month)
Created artwork for sand-blasted wooden signs.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Hospitality industry)
February 1983 — August 1983 (7 months)
Design and layout type for in-house collateral material. Assisted printshop manager preparing for print and printing.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Hospitality industry)
November 1979 — February 1983 (3 years 4 months)
Performed various duties of parking control at the hotel while attending college.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; KM; Retail industry)
March 1979 — October 1979 (8 months)
Fast food cook while attending college in Chula Vista, California
(Restaurants industry)
September 1978 — March 1979 (7 months)
Bused tables for restaurant within a major department store in San Antonio, Texas.
(Restaurants industry)
1977 — 1978 (1 year)
Dishwash for restaurant catering to wine merchants in Denver, Colorado
(Construction industry)
March 1976 — July 1977 (1 year 5 months)
Production spray painter for products used in commercial construction in Irving, Texas
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