OpenGeoCode - About the People and Story behind OpenGeoCode

Founders

Andrew Ferlitsch, Co-Founder, Research Scientist
Andrew Ferlitsch
  • Product Manager & Principal Researcher, Sharp Labs of America, Camas, WA.
  • Member of Sharp's Emerging Technology Committee, headed by CEO Emeritus.
  • Sharp Labs of America's Corporate Inventor of the Year - 2001.
  • Sharp Labs of America's DIS Invention of the Year, Co-Recipient - 2007.
  • 67 issued US Patents, 150+ pending patent applications.
  • Co-founded professional networking site Fashions.Org (2008-2010), with over 4,500 members.
  • Founded Silicon Valley startup QASE (1993-1996), 5 employees, upwards 7 contractors.
  • Operated variety of S-Corps, professional services companies.
  • Wrote software at home in his 20s that he sold to Veritas as a startup company, which licensed it to IBM for $1 million as-is.
  • Masters of Computer Science, Oregon State University, 1987

Other Experiences
  • Oversee Product and Research Development.
  • Outsourcing Manager for product development in India.
  • Owned S-Corps in California and Oregon with multiple employees.
  • Expericenced with hiring, payroll and corporate legal matters.
  • Organized tradeshows and produced demos, product information, product training and other marketing activities.
  • Experienced with patent office actions (OAs).
  • Experienced with litigation/arbitration on employment, intellectual property, unemployment insurance, declarative actions.
  • Co-partnered in a web investment fund, which invested in web related startup companies in late 1990s.

Karl Wischnofske, Co-Founder, Marketing/Planning
Karl Wischnofske
  • Director of Marketing, Inventist. Global marketing and sales campaign for www.aquaskipper.com and other innovative inventions.
  • Co-founded professional networking site Fashions.Org (2008-2010), with over 4,500 members.
  • Inventor of the Garden Sock - GardenSock.com
  • Founder of GroEasy, producing and distributing products to the garden nursery retail industry.
  • Created and implemented strategic plans for successful launch and promotion of new products.
  • Developed and sold premier product lines to clients.
  • Communicator and presenter; establish rapport with individuals and groups at all organizational levels.
  • TV commercial script writer, producer and technical instructions writer.
  • VP of Marketing & Research - Transcontinental Imports.
  • Sales & Marketing - England Enterprises, Creative Edge Imports. Branded and developed the "SILK FIRE" clothing line.
  • Small Business Owner - Pacific Northwest Painting
  • Bachelor of Arts, Communications degree in Public Relations, 1990 Pacific Lutheran University

Will Mayall, Co-Founder, Master Database Designer
Will Mayall
  • Senior MySQL DBA for IBM in charge of Major Accounts, specializing in Backup, Recovery and Tuning.
  • Principal in professional networking site Fashions.Org (2008-2010), with over 4,500 members.
  • Oracle and MySQL DBA contractor, spent time tuning databases for Regence Blue Cross, Clear Access, Conway International, Kimera Systems, and Schnitzer Steel.
  • Oracle/MySQL database engineer at Sun Microsystems.
  • While at DecisionPoint Applications, he focused on Oracle Data Warehouses and Data Marts.
  • Mr. Mayall spent three years at eFusion in the mid 1990's installing Internet Telephony Servers at domestic and international telephone companies.
  • Database engineer at Atlas Telecom, supporting Oracle databases at Hong Kong Telecom, China Telecom, Korea Telecom, and other Asian telecoms.
  • Database engineer at Sidereal Corporation in the early 1980's.
  • Bachelors of Business Administration from University of Portland, 1982.

Contributers

Leah Laņojan Sodhi, Site/Data Assistant (Chandigarh, India)
Leigh Lanz
  • Site/Data Assistant (Fashions.Org) 2008- Present
  • Marketing Manager of StayLoadedCanada.com 2008-2010
  • Lead Generator of Global Efficiency Inc.-2007-2008
  • Market Researcher of Opinion Outpost/Western Wats-2005-2007
  • English Teacher of Phil-Inter Korean Academy 2006
  • High School Science Teacher of University of San Jose Recoletos 2004-2006
  • Elementary Science Teacher of Indiana Aerospace University 2002-2004
  • Bachelor of Secondary Education major in General Sciences from Cebu Normal University, 2002

Experience: Teaching English (Online & Classroom Settings), Social Network Marketing, Data Entry, Blogging, Admin Support, Article Writing, Proofreading, Web Concept Designing Market Research, Lead Generation

 
Andrew Mayall, Site/Data Assistant
Drew Mayall
  • Verifies daily Unix and MySQL backups were successful.
  • Responds to customer inquires and creates Incident Reports.
  • In charge of Quality Assurance for LAMP stack and Data Integrity.