Daryl Marietta

Daryl has a far and deep reach of systems development and communications that has grown out of a passion for technology since an early age. Coming of age at the dawn of personal computing provided him with some unique opportunities to learn from the hardware level up in a hands-on manner which is uncommon to the majority of other software developers. For example while still in school, he took an integrated circuit chip from a Texas Instruments Speak and Spell, and built his own allophone based speech synthesizer for his computer at a time when similar devices were prohibitively expensive.

As an operator of a popular regional Bulletin Board System (BBS) in the pre-web internet days, Daryl was interviewed about early electronic messaging systems. Daryl also is a published author and wrote a number of articles for early computing periodicals. Daryl continued to work on the hardware side of computing and performed component level repair and maintenance of systems for a number of years. (We fix boards, we don’t swap them!)

Daryl’s entrepreneurial interests led to many opportunities in his early years which eventually led to founding XCENT in 1990 with William Butler. While both XCENT’s and Daryl’s endeavors quickly migrated into the software development realm, his background and familiarity with systems development from the bottom up, allows him to provide robust and reliable solutions time and time again.

Daryl’s experience in software development and communications served well with the public proliferation of the internet and the web. It was a nearly natural progression that he built and worked on many early online e-Commerce systems and continues to do so today. Having experience working with companies and teams both local and around the globe, Daryl has the proven ability to coordinate and work well with diverse teams.