Meet the AdventureTech team

Doug McDaniel — President
Doug, a founding partner of AdventureTech Group Inc., has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry, nine of those years in a consultant role. For AdventureTech, Doug wears several hats. He continues to consult with current clients on programming projects. He leads the sales and marketing team and oversees current contracts and resource scheduling for the RPG division. Before founding AdventureTech, Doug was a consultant for The PowerTech Group, providing consulting and programming services for IBM AS/400, iSeries/400, RPG400 and RPGIV projects. He also was a senior programmer and analyst for Wolferman’s, working on IBM AS/400, RPG400 and V4R4 systems. He developed detailed design, specifications, and program applications to satisfy end-user requirements supporting the Order Power and Varsity Logistics systems, and he modified source code to enhance business requirements.

Kevin Conner — Senior Vice President
A founding partner of AdventureTech, Kevin has more than 30 years of experience building applications for business practices in a wide range of industries, and more than half of his career has been in the consulting arena. He spends most of his time in the field at client sites working on long-term projects, but he also boosts AdventureTech’s sales and marketing efforts at tradeshows. Kevin’s experience is varied. In the mid-1980s, he worked for the Kansas City Royals building applications for payroll, accounts payable/receivable, incident reporting, and scouting systems. Kevin also spent time in the trucking industry where he developed a truck leasing and rental system and maintained service repairs and accounts payable applications for the Murphy-Hoffman Company. He has done work in the insurance industry and for cattle breeding associations. Currently, Kevin is working for an organization in the grain industry, writing and maintaining applications to keep track of grain as it is purchased, sold, and transported.

Tim King — Vice President of Product Development
Tim is AdventureTech’s third founding partner and has more than 20 years of experience in software development. He co-heads product development with Brett for AdventureTech and when not developing products, spends time doing consulting work for several of ATGI's customers. Tim developed iSafari, AdventureTech’s Web-enablement toolset and is the primary installer/trainer for purchasers of that software package. Tim started his programming career in 1987 coding RPGII on a S/36 at Murphy-Hoffman Company (MHC) and spent 13 years building/maintaining/rebuilding systems for every aspect of their truck dealership business. In 2000 he became a consultant for PowerTech along with Doug and Kevin. When PowerTech closed it's consulting branch in Kansas City in 2001, the three formed AdventureTech in order to provide quality consulting and programming services for their customers.

Brett Gibson — VP Software Development - iConga
Brett has more than 20 years of experience in the IT consulting industry. He joined AdventureTech in 2004 and became the fourth partner and is responsible for software development, support, and enhancements for the iConga product. He also brings international experience to the table. He left his native New Zealand when he was 22 years old to go to London where he did consulting work for several companies. At Lloyds of London, he engineered back office financial software, and at Standard Chartered Bank, he developed end-of-day automation software. Brett also worked for NZI Bank in New Zealand and Singapore where he handled software development in all facets of the banking industry. For the last 15 years, Brett has been in Kansas City where he consulted on software development projects for a variety of companies, such as Midland Loan Services, TriTech Consulting, and American Identity (now Staples), before joining AdventureTech.

Travis Dietz — Director, Consulting Services
Travis is the face of AdventureTech Group's Microsoft-based consulting division.  Brought on in August of 2006 to start this division with only himself to sell, he has grown this division into one of the most elite team of developers in the Kansas City market.  Travis has had a passion for coding since he first was exposed and has been doing consulting in and around the Kansas City area for 6 of his 10 years as a programmer/analyst.  He knows the key to being successful in any market is relationships.  It is his unyielding will to never compromise quality that has led to AdventureTech's stunning success in this market space in such a short amount of time.

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