Efinitytech
Monroe, WA 98272
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Mark DeLong's Bio
Mark was born in Everett and raised in Monroe Washington. He joined the Marine Corps a year after graduating High School and had the opportunity to see a good amount of the United States and the world as a KC-130 Aerial Navigator. He had the opportunity to see many exciting andinteresting, albeit some dangerous, countries of the world as far west as Japan, above the Arctic Circle in Norway, east as far as Kuwait, and south of the equator along with a multitude of Military Bases around the globe.
While greatly enjoying his travel and opportunities in the military; in his view; there are very few places that compare to beautiful Western Washington. Mark has always had an interest in graphic design and was fortunate to find full-time employment as a graphic designer in Seattle after his service in the Marines.
After three years in the industry, his initiative led him to cofound DMgraphics in 1998; later incorporated as Efinity Technologies in 2001! As the company has grown over the years his role has transformed from graphics to programming, at which he excels and greatly enjoys. Perhaps his most significant work among many projects for our clients in the programming field is the fully supported Content Management System, VSM Tools, our CMS, which he largely wrote single handedly and which, with the help of our current team of programmers, he directly supports and enhances on an ongoing basis. This CMS runs and supports virtually every one of the well over 500 websites produced by Efinitytech since 2004 when it was first launched.
Mark has numerous hobbies (too many really). He enjoys shooting, hiking/camping, and more recently custom furniture building. More than anything, Mark enjoys spending time with his wife and 6 children.
In addition to being the cofounder, President and Senior Programmer at Efinitytech, Mark also serves as a deacon of his church, Pinehurst Baptist, and serves as a Board Member on the Snohomish County Veterans Assistance Fund Executive Board.
Business Development, Marketing & Sales
Vaughan Seifert's Bio
Vaughan was born and raised on the East Coast in the middle of the last century, then on to college in Boston, earning a BS and MS in Manufacturing Engineering along with an MBA, all from Boston University. He worked nights at UPS loading tractor trailers to help finance his education. After college, Vaughan worked at Gillette, as an Industrial Engineer, followed by Parker Brothers and General Mills. Then on to C R Bard, a medical device manufacturer specializing in Angioplasty and Radio Frequency Catheters and devices for electrical mapping of the heart.
At C R Bard, he progressed from manufacturing to product design and development and finally to R&D and Management. Subsequently, he accepted a management position in Smith & Nephew in their surgical device group. While working in the Medical Device Industry, Vaughan earned a suite of patents for Catheters and Surgical Devices, with rights belonging to those corporations.
Then; breaking from the corporate world, Vaughan co-published a cookbook, and worked in real estate, where he built his very first extremely simple websites to promote properties!
Taking an exciting opportunity as a co-founder of a startup was pivotal in his career. Dishes Direct, was an early Ecommerce website and fine china retail shop based in Kennebunkport Maine. The website comprised some 10,000 items from over 14 manufacturers, which had to be procured, photographed and databased for website sales. Along the way there was the build out andrunning of the retail store and the management of the New York based website programmers. Unfortunately; the timing and funding for the venture were caught in the dot-com crash, precipitating the dismantling of the business and website. Nonetheless, that experience was the fundamental springboard to his current endeavors at Efinitytech, which are unequivocally the best and most rewarding of his long career!
Thereafter he relocated to the Seattle area, a much more opportune locale for working in the web and tech field. There, as a project manager for a small group of investors, he first met and hired Mark at Efinitytech to design and develop a highly functional website in the real estate field. The project was involved and innovative, enabling the transaction of properties on line. The investor group lost interest after he and Mark delivered the fully functioning site and back end. While the site worked exceptionally well, external factors, such as a change in support from eBay anddifferences in objectives of the investors led to the dissolution of the venture.
With over 6 months working together, he and Mark had developed a great working relationship. At that juncture, Mark asked Vaughan to work with him at Efinitytech. Vaughan reports that since then, (June of 2004), developing the business and working with clients to meet their website needs andobjectives is the most rewarding work of his career! Helping clients achieve their goals andproviding them with high quality websites, is tremendously satisfying for them and for Efinitytech!
Currently; a great amount of his recreational time is spent Golfing! As he reports; Pam, his spouse and incredibly wonderful woman, golfs with him almost every weekend!
In addition, he serves as the Board President of Grass Roots Junior Golf Foundation, a charity to enable and encourage children to learn golf through affordable coaching, play and competition with real equipment on real golf courses!
Finance & Accounting
Jared Ackles's Bio
Born in Washington D.C. and lived there half his childhood; then moved to Illinois when he was 10 and was surrounded by corn. He was a performing artist throughout his college career and even wanted to go to Broadway. After High School he became more practical and began to study Philosophy and Theology, which of course turned out to be not much more practical. He received his Bachelor's of Arts from North Park University in Chicago. During his college years, he was very involved in the community doing volunteer work and occasionally going abroad for mission trips. To get by during this time he worked in the hospitality industry. After that he graduated andtransitioned into customer service. He is excited to begin working in this growing field of SEO andhas been loving every minute.
He is a history nerd. He will watch documentaries all day and he is not ashamed of it. However, he would interrupt a string of documentaries to watch Star Wars (originals only) in a heartbeat. He mostly likes to spend time with his wife and use his free time to visit different cities in the area finding new places to eat and take pictures.
His primary focus is working with SEO clients. He works to create strategies that improve their websites and increase visibility on search engines. He generates reports based on analytics of traffic, keywords, and goals to come up with new opportunities to increase conversions.