SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Oct. 11, 2023 — Zark, a groundbreaking service that increases parking availability at multifamily communities by empowering residents to reserve parking spaces affordably, today announced the hiring of three new employees to their engineering and accounts teams to help as the company’s substantial growth continues. Landon Poch was named as the Director of Engineering, Ray Phelan has joined as the Senior Software Engineering Lead and Adalene Keller is the newest Account Manager.
“We are delighted to welcome Landon, Ray and Adelene to the Zark family,” said Todd Katler, CEO of Zark. “Much of Zark’s success is rooted in its ability to reduce the friction of under-parking without imposing monthly fees for the operator or residents. Each brings a specific and impressive set of skills that will be critical to our mission as we experience significant growth and provide the multifamily industry with much-needed parking solutions for their communities.”
Zark has nearly doubled the contracted units over the last few months, including full portfolio rollouts for Nextmetro and Catalysts. In addition, they are partnering with MG. The company will be rolling out several features this fall including Apple Pay, Google Pay and more.
As Director of Engineering, Poch’s focus will be building competencies, instituting best practices and expanding on how Zark’s solutions help clients and residents. Prior to Zark, he was the Principal Software Engineer at Cvent and brings more than 15 years of hands-on software engineering experience, delivering solutions in a wide variety of industries. In addition to his work in systems design and architecture to support web-scale products, Poch has released applications spanning an extensive variety of native and web platforms.
Phelan was the Senior Frontend Developer at Avantgarde Finance before moving to Zark. He has more than 20 years of professional experience as a software engineer focusing on frontend and full-stack development. Phelan possesses an extensive history of working in both start-ups and established businesses from multiple industries including blockchain, airline analytics, logistics software, hotel bookings and more.
Before joining Zark as an Account Manager, Adalene Keller worked the same position at Anyone Home. She has over 10 years of experience in customer success, managing a large portfolio of CRM SaaS accounts at Anyone Home. Keller was an integral part of the start-up and helped the company grow from one major single-family client to a successful multi-family property management solution.
Zark empowers properties to lease vacant parking spaces to residents and guests for a low daily rate. This enables the properties to provide a simple, elegant solution to residents risk-free — properties even get a revenue share — without burdening the residents with a fee that feels like a rent increase.The result is a reduction in resident frustration and negative reviews. The powerful solution is free of cost to apartment operators, and properties participate in a revenue share from the reservations.
