HOUSTON, Feb. 6, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Schipul – The Web Marketing Company (www.schipul.com), a leading Web marketing and software development company, today announced the promotions of Aaron Long and Rodney Sabrsula to vice president. Both are senior equity partners at Schipul and both report to president and CEO Ed Schipul.
Long, who has been with Schipul since 2001, moves from Director of Business Development to Vice President, Professional Services. His new responsibilities include guiding Schipul's professional services, business development and marketing activities.
Sabrsula, previously Technical Director with Schipul, becomes Vice President, Information Technology. His new responsibilities include overseeing Schipul's SaaS software development, customer and IT support, cloud infrastructure and security. Sabrsula has been with Schipul since 2000.
"Aaron and Rodney have played key roles in our success, especially during the challenging business environment of the past two years," said Ed Schipul, President and CEO. "In that time we have revamped our core product and service offerings, including the successful introduction of a ground-up rebuild of Tendenci® (www.tendenci.com) Web content management software (CMS). Aaron and Rodney will help our team to further accelerate and effectively manage our growth."
Schipul rebuilt Tendenci on the Django open source framework, providing greater flexibility with custom Django application integration and greater integration with web applications like social media and video sites. Tendenci powers websites for Houston Technology Center (www.houstontech.org), Discovery Green (www.discoverygreen.com), and Carbo Ceramics (www.carboceramics.com), -- including both Russian and Chinese language sites. Schipul also offers a broad spectrum of Web design, social media consulting and search engine marketing services.
The Houston Business Journal listed Schipul – The Web Marketing Company among the fastest growing technology companies in Houston in the 2011 Fast Tech 50. Revenues last year exceeded $3 million for the first time.
About Schipul - The Web Marketing Company
Schipul – The Web Marketing Company develops and builds websites on the Tendenci CMS platform, a revenue generating online tool with over a half million people logging in during the past year and millions of users overall. Schipul is headquartered in Houston with an office in Silicon Valley, and provides web marketing services to an international client base that encompasses a variety of service industries in local, national and international markets. Schipul's clients include the Houston Zoo, Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles and Tony Chachere's® Creole Foods, among many others. Additional information about Schipul is available at www.schipul.com and www.tendenci.com.
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