JOHN BELLONE
John is a technical lead at zinkk, and works part-time as a quantitative analyst for a large financial corporation in Manhattan, New York City. When he is not creating beautiful software he enjoys writing, reading, photography, tea, racquetball, and bicyling. He is an avid supporter of open source but understands the need for closed source software; he is a user of Ubuntu, Windows, and Mac OS X.
DANIEL BOSTON
Daniel is the CTO of zinkk, and currently a PhD candidate in the College of Computer Science under the advisory of Dr. Cristian Borcea at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Besides a lot of studying, reading, and writing, he enjoys music, art and games. He plays violin and piano semi-professionally, is an amateur artist and photographer, and dabbles at woodworking for fun and enjoyment.
JOHN CREPEZZI
John is CEO of zinkk, and a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. He enjoys thinking, mountain climbing, and countless hours of work. He can be found hacking away on code concerning pretty much anything, and is always willing to talk about any of his current projects over a nice huge cup of good coffee.
KENNY KATZGRAU
Kenny is the current CFO of zinkk, and the lead developer of Teaches.It. Prior to his involvement with zinkk, he most recently wrote wpSearch, a lucene-based search plugin for Wordpress, the first StandardAnalyzer for PHP Lucene, PowerPolls, a poll-taking application for the Facebook platform, and SimpleSample, an online survey engine. He previously worked as a software developer at LTech, a Google Partner specializing in both search and cloud computing.
TARCISIO NUNES
Tarcisio is the CMO of zinkk. He ran the NJIT Vector, the campus newspaper,for three years and remained active as a graduate student as the business manager.He has worked for Johnson and Johnson as a software developer and project manager.He currently holds both a BA in Computer Science with a minor in Business Management and a MS in Information System with a specialization in data management.
HISTORY
Zinkk inc. was founded in May of 2008 to deliver semantic processing solutions with the sole intention of building technology that is able to find relationships between information sources and build meaningful visualizations for our customers.
DIARIESOFASTARTUP.COM
If starting a business was easy the state of New Jersey would be rolling in cash due to incorporation fees. Anyone that knows a little about the great State of New Jersey knows that we're in debt therefore simple logic told us that starting a business isn't easy.
We decided early on that we were going to chronicle our adventures through the startup phase of our business at our blog, Diaries of a Startup, where we have been slowly adding articles that highlight some of the emotions, successes and failures of starting a technology business.
Our hopes of this project is to provide some insight, hindsight and foresight into all the aspects of today's challenging world of business.