David A. Chapa
Public Speaker, Musician, and Technology Executive in Denver, Colorado
Since my early teen years I wanted to be in technology.
At age 13, wrote my first program in BASIC (video game)
At 16, I started in sales with ComputerLand, Store #11
At 17, I landed my first major account, Ernst & Whinney (back in the days of the Big 8 accounting firms)
Before graduating high school at 18, I was awarded "Top Salesman for the Midwest" at ComputerLand.
I went on to study Computer Science in college.
Having held a variety of positions over the years from sales, pre-sales, product management, and marketing, today I am the Sr. Product Marketing Mgr for WEKA, a leading Data Platform solution for Next Gen workloads.
My passion is connecting business to technology and helping both end-users and the vendor community to effectively and creatively communicate the real value message. That's where the fun begins!!
I'm an author and editor, check out my publishing credits here