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Orange, California – Contest Factory, a leader in developing custom online contests, sweepstakes, and bracketed tournaments announced today that Joseph Baranauskas has joined the company as its Director of Technology. Joe will lead the technology development efforts and work with the management team to launch several new products and platforms over the coming year.

Prior to joining Contest Factory, Baranauskas was a Chief IPTV Systems Architect and Lead Developer for AT&T Laboratory’s IPTV U-Verse system and interactive applications. He has over 16 years of systems and applications development experience with companies like MessageBroadcast, GlobalLink Securities, ReactionX, Cliik Technologies, iNTELiTRAK, and Crystal Semiconductor/Cirrus Logic. Mr. Baranauskas has extensive experience in designing massive scale, enterprise communications platforms leveraging Microsoft technologies. While at iNTELiTRAK, he led the development of the world’s first ICSA certified biometric security platform called the Citadel GateKeeper.

“Joe is a seasoned technologist with extensive experience in the design and implementation of large scale enterprise systems. We are very excited to have Joe join the Contest Factory team to help take our company to the next level. Leveraging Contest Factory’s patent and many years of experience in the online contests space, Joe will help us build and release a series of innovative and exciting products in the coming months,” said Dr. Iman Foroutan, Chairman and CEO of Contest Factory.

About Contest Factory

Contest Factory has been developing proven turnkey custom online competitions and sweepstakes platforms for over nine years. Our management team has over 60 years of experience in the Digital Media, Entertainment, and Technology industries. We have utilized this human capital to benefit our clients and partners and have also developed several patents over the past few years. In short, Contest Factory platforms let you "Increase Traffic, Build Brand Awareness and Collect Marketing Information."

The Contest Factory advantage allows you to “Engage Your CustomersTM” by helping you engage them with fun, interactive and viral online contests and sweepstakes. Our platform increases user engagement, thereby enhancing brand awareness and accumulating important marketing data. Our ViralDNA^TM reporting software deciphers the data and provides to marketers important real-time information like user demographics, user behavior through surveys, questionnaires, and in-depth viral share results among others.

For more information about Contest Factory, please visit our website at www.contestfactory.com.

Iman Foroutan
Contest Factory
Iman@ContestFactory.com
714.221.0070 x211