Dean Powers, the founder and CEO of Zojax, is originally from Bellevue, Washington. He received his MBA from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. Dean is a veteran of the internet, having started his career in the days of CP/M and 10 megabyte hard drives! Besides being the CEO of Zojax, Dean is active in the “alternatives” community and commissioned Zojax developers and developed a social networking site for individuals interested in alternatives. The site was developed using the Buddyboss implementation of WordPress.

Dean is a “hands-on” CEO who works with customers and developers on a daily basis and responds to email and chat requests.

After a technical career with US WEST in Seattle, Washington, Dean worked with several Silicon Valley startups (Connexion/Reliant) as a Sales Engineer and Product Manager. In 2005, 17 years ago, Dean created a small Web application development company, incorporated in Bellevue, Washington.

Starting with one software developer and one client, Zojax now has a dozen developers. The active client list of Zojax includes:

• TRAC Intermodal and FYX Fleet in New Jersey
• Institute for Knowledge Management (ISKME) in Half Moon Bay, California
• Mookai, a Marketing Agency in Toronto, Canada
• Kuehne, global logistics company

Web Development Software Platforms

Zojax began developing Content Management Systems using Open Source Web Frameworks including Plone, Zope, and Pyramid. Today, our preferred web frameworks are:

• Django
• Wagtail (An extension of Django)
• Zojax supports Amazon AWS for deployment of both Websites and Custom Web Applications

We are not great fans of WordPress (we think that Django is superior), but we have a few clients that have asked us to support this CMS. This support of WordPress has led us to develop a social network on the Buddyboss platform for the “Alternatives” community at http://community.alternatives.network.

We are prepared to develop and support any website using WordPress or Buddyboss and have dedicated WordPress Developers for this purpose. Our WordPress services include:

• Deployment of WordPress Code at WPEngine.com
• Custom WordPress Development

Zojax also provides Web Design Services (this site was designed by our web designer) as was community.alternatives.network. Our web design and UI work is enhanced by a dedicated front-end developer who ensures that implementations are responsive on desktop and mobile devices on a variety of web browsers and screen dimensions.

Our work with enterprise level customers has enabled us to develop services specifically for marketing divisions of large companies. Our services include:

• Salesforce support (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Salesforce Administration)
• Pardot website integration, Contact Forms, and Email Blasts
• Hubspot website integration (Contact Form and Chat interface on this site use HubSpot)