We’re delighted to announce that AvantLink recently brought on board David Clark of Salt Lake City, Utah, as Chief Technology Officer. David’s skill set perfectly compliments our leading-edge Affiliate network technology and proprietary platform. He has extensive experience in web-based database-driven applications, PHP reporting systems and process automation (e.g. automated data imports/exports, statistical calculations, trigger/event notifications, etc.).
From his resume:
Experienced database developer and DBA with proven history of planning, deploying and maintaining creative solutions to business problems. Adept at individually executing projects as well as mentoring and assisting other team members with shared responsibilities. Well-versed in refactoring applications to keep pace with changing business goals without resorting to complete redesigns. Excellent troubleshooter often called upon by colleagues in “last resort” situations.
Publications:
- Use XML Query Definitions in .NET Applications, May 2004 (available at SitePoint)
- Stored Procedures on PHP and Microsoft SQL Server, November 2003 (available at SitePoint)
Education:
Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics, May 1997
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Graduated Summa Cum Laude with GPA 3.9/4.0
David’s interests include reading, hiking, camping and spending quality time with his wife and two small children.
We’re excited that David accepted the position of CTO for AvantLink and we look forward to the innovation and ideas he’s sure to bring to our team!
Congrats on the new higher. I’m sure David will be an excellent addition to the Avantlink family.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
You guys keep on growing… soon Google will want to buy you and then sell you like Performics…
April 19th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Another solid step for Avantlink. They continue to make the right decisions to continue to lead the affiliate industry. Their affiliate-centric position, advanced tool suite and overall enthusiasm for affiliate marketing keeps them at the front of the pack. Expect more from these guys…
April 20th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Guys, Thanks a ton for the encouragement and kind words. We’re thrilled to have David on board. He’s going to be doing a lot of amazing work that will ultimately help everyone involved! Gary M
April 23rd, 2007 at 5:31 pm
AvantLink has already ruined me for other networks! I look forward to seeing you guys get even stronger, and hopefully even push the industry in general forward a little on so many levels.
April 24th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
[...] We also distributed a press release at PRWeb.com this past weekend about the new API. Here is a quote from the article by David Clark: “Our API is platform-independent,” says AvantLink CTO David Clark. “We’ve opened up our system to the Affiliates rather than locking them into a ‘boxed’ feature set. For instance, if an Affiliate doesn’t like the formatting of our Product Display Builder tool, they could essentially construct their own via the API,” he adds… [...]
July 23rd, 2007 at 1:18 pm
[...] the request of Krystofer from the REI Affiliate program, and some other merchants, David added a filter option that will allow you to select from among “Available recruits”, [...]
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:56 pm
[...] datafeed script is easy to use once you get the hang of it…..I say this after putting David Clark through the paces till I learned how to install and use it. See I told you that I am not much of a [...]
October 13th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
[...] the course of the past few days David has built, tested and rolled out new functionality for handling inactive merchant links that result [...]
May 14th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
[...] Clark, our CTO, has developed a killer integrated tool that will allow our merchant partners to police their [...]
September 8th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
[...] bid monitoring. Questions, comments or suggestions are certainly encouraged. Special thanks to David Clark for his work on this [...]
September 14th, 2009 at 9:59 am