Duane Wrobel

Duane Wrobel is the current CEO at Avantility. Duane has previous experience as an engineer lead at Jookster Networks, Inc and as a software design engineer at Microsoft.

Duane Wrobel has been in the tech industry for over 15 years. Duane started their career as an engineer lead at Jookster Networks, Inc, where they were responsible for designing and developing the database, web service, and UI for the Jookster website (www.jookster.com), a social-networking search engine. Duane's design efforts entailed defining and documenting user workflows, user requirements, business requirements, database schema, and middle-tier and front-tier code designs. Development utilized C#, SQL, Javascript, and AJAX skills to materialize the designs and specifications of the web application.

After their time at Jookster Networks, Inc, Duane Wrobel took on a role as a software design engineer at Microsoft. There they were responsible for designing and developing server controls, middle-tier logic, and database stored procedures, functions, and triggers for CStar, a Microsoft internal enterprise solution used for tracking marketing campaigns. Work allocation was 80% database with emphasis on query optimization and performance enhancements to existing functions and stored procedures, while creating new stored procedures and scripts to meet new functionality. The remainder 20% was ASP.NET with emphasis on UI enhancements to the performance and user experience using techniques such as AJAX and DHTML.

Duane Wrobel's experience as an engineer lead and software design engineer has given him the skills

Duane Wrobel has an AA in IT Programming and Database Theory from Bellevue College as well as a degree from ASIJ.

Some individuals on their team include Othniel Palomino - VP, Business Development, Chuck Wrobel - Director, International Development & Operations, and Kapenda Thomas - EVP, Technology.