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Jan 27 • Join members of Tessitura's Product and Technology Teams as we review our current product roadmap, show progress on v16, and briefly review the new acknowledgment rules screen.

Open Studio January 2021: TNEW HTML templates update, v16 membership benefits

Chris S.

Vice President, Engineering, Tessitura Network

Nara Z.

Group Product Manager, Tessitura Network

Heather L.K.

Product Manager, Tessitura Network

Chris W.

Product Manager, Data & Reporting, Tessitura Network

Mark R.

Product Analyst, Tessitura Network

Billy W.

Software Engineer, Tessitura Network

Open Studio January 2021: TNEW HTML templates update, v16 membership benefits

1/27/2021

90 MIN

Open Studio: January 2021

Join members of Tessitura's Product and Technology Teams at our monthly Open Studio. This month we will review our current product roadmap, show progress on TN Express Web HTML Templates for v16, demonstrate the new benefits management features of v16, and briefly review the new acknowledgment rules screen.

Live Webinar
Wednesday, January 27, 10:00-11:30am EST (3:00pm GMT)

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Chris S.

Chris Szalaj

Vice President, Engineering
Tessitura Network

As Vice President of Engineering, Chris leads the Engineering and Quality Assurance teams of the Innovation Group at Tessitura Network.

He brings over 18 years of experience building and delivering software in the arts and culture sector.

Prior to joining Tessitura Network, Chris worked at L2 Interactive, delivering Tessitura-integrated digital products and overseeing the engineering group. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Tennessee State University with emphases in computer science and music.

Outside of work, Chris enjoys spending time with his family, deep water fishing, cooking, a cappella music, and playing the ’cello.

Nara Z.

Nara Zitner

Group Product Manager
Tessitura Network

Nara joined the Web Products team in January 2017 as Product Owner for TN Express Web.

Nara returned from London where she worked for the UK Parliament in their digital services department as a portfolio manager and the Royal Academy of Art as a systems analyst. Prior to that, she worked over 9 years at POP (a web and interactive agency in Seattle) where she worked with Tessitura on early SOAP API and Kiosk development as well as working directly with licensees on custom website development and integrations with Tessitura; she has survived many an onsale.
Heather L.K.

Heather Laidlaw Kraft

Product Manager
Tessitura Network

Heather joined the Tessitura Network in December 2014 as a Project Manager and Consultant after being a user on the system for almost 10 years.
After holding several director level positions in Consulting, Heather is currently Product Owner for Integrations.

Prior to joining the network, Heather worked for Seattle Repertory Theatre for 16 years. In 2005, Heather became the Seattle Rep lead for their conversion to Tessitura. She was also instrumental in guiding Seattle Children’s Theatre, Intiman, and ACT (members of the Seattle Tessitura Consortium) in their conversions to Tessitura. Heather was also one of the founding members of the MAC committee and on the leading edges of adopters for the Next Generation of Tessitura (v11 & v12).

Residing just north of Seattle in Shoreline, Washington, Heather enjoys gardening and playing with her furry friends - rain or shine!
Chris W.

Chris Wallingford

Product Manager, Data & Reporting
Tessitura Network

Chris Wallingford is the Product Owner for Data and Reporting in the Tessitura Network Innovation Group.
Chris started at Tessitura as Director, Business Intelligence in January 2018 after 10 years with Jacobson Consulting Applications, Inc. (JCA). His first six years at JCA primarily focused on managing Tessitura Business Intelligence application development and support, including T-Stats, Tessitura Dashboards, and the Revenue Management Application (RMA). For the remainder of his time he oversaw all of JCA’s product lines as Director of Products. Prior to JCA, Chris spent eight years developing and supporting technology solutions for arts organizations, including The Adrienne Arsht Center and New World Symphony.
Mark R.

Mark Rhodes

Product Analyst
Tessitura Network

Mark Rhodes has been working in the IT field since 1995 and was Lead Developer of the programming team that originally created the ticketing functionality in Tessitura (then called Impresario) for the Metropolitan Opera.

After the Impresario project concluded, Mark, as was customary for that time period, spent a year at a dot com venture that failed and after that worked as a consultant in the field of corporate governance. In 2002, Mark was happily pulled back into the world of arts organizations by the Network, where, as the son of ballet dancers, he feels particularly at home. In what spare time is left over after work and spending time with his wife and daughter, Mark enjoys playing wind synthesizer, composing music, and gaming.
Billy W.

Billy White

Software Engineer
Tessitura Network

Billy joined the Tessitura Network in 2017 as a Web Developer for the TN Express Web (TNEW) product.
Billy resides in Monona, Wisconsin with his wife and two kids.

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