Personal Mission:
To live boldly, laugh hysterically and love deeply. To lead a healthy, wealthy, and wise lifestyle by being curious and serving others.
”To honor, treasure and respect each other and listen, be there for one another through good times and bad.
Azence Team Mission Statement
Meet the Team
As a Chief Project Matchmaker at AZENCE, Tricia guides clients in applying Pareto’s 80-20 Efficiency Principles to simplify business goals and optimize workflow towards financial success. Being in the digital marketing industry for 18 years makes it easy for her to help clients evolve their business life cycle and help clients focus on achieving measurable results.
Before officially launching AZENCE in 2013, Tricia served as Marketing Director of DirectNET, managing a Professional Services Team of Data Center Engineers and its subsidiary e-commerce properties for more than 10 years. She has managed successful CRM (customer relationship management) & CMS (content management system) integrations during her tenure and was responsible for several online brands, one of which generated more than $2M in sales upon her exit. Prior to that, Tricia started her own dot com in early 2000 and developed state-of-the-art SEO techniques that propelled her career into digital marketing. She earned her undergraduate degree of BSc. In Psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder and University of Wollongong, Australia.
In addition, she has obtained her Web Development certificate, trained in html5, css, ektron CMS400.net and Hootsuite (Social Media) certified. She loves spending time with her family and travels back and forth between her family in America and Singapore where she was originally from. In her spare time, she is an avid traveler, plays tennis and hosts game nights with friends. Tricia is a self-proclaimed tree hugger and closet self-improvement geek.
Lea first worked in Finance before transitioning to the BPO Industry where she spent 12 years polishing her skills in customer service and technical support. Her love of writing opened the doors to the online world. In addition to writing and social media management, she's continuously trying to upgrade her knowledge in WordPress and maintains a blog for practice.
She loves reading, and cooking during her spare time. She's an animal lover and currently has 4 rescue dogs and one cat.
Having cut her teeth in blogging more than 10 years ago, her first foray in the professional online world was when one of her readers asked her to write for her business. Since then, Gracielle has progressed her copywriting skills into virtual assistance, content writing, social media marketing, project management and analytics. While she loves going to the beach, doing community and charity work, binge reading and hanging out with friends over good food and whisky; she still finds time to learn and is constantly looking for ways to engage her audience.
As a former instructor of a College for Information Technology, Ian is highly specialized in design & UX. He is our in-house WordPress Project Lead. He oversees our WordPress team as well as PHP projects; manages design & UX. He's definitely the CSS master of the group! He loves to go on adventures - scaling mountains, discovering uncharted places, and learning exotic culture.
Troy may be fairly new to the freelancing business but his contribution to Azence is already substantial in his one year tenure with the team. His line of expertise include html, css, php, and javascript. When not geeking out over techie stuff, he goes deep diving to visit his scaly friends or traveling abroad with his wife.
Don, as the newest member of the team, is Azence’s Video Creator and Editor. He has a deep passion for digital media and creative content with 3 years of experience in the industry. He loves taking photographs and portraits of people. He is great at doing video and photo editing, hobbies he has cultivated since high school. He loves traveling the beautiful places in the Philippines with his family.
Zvi is a Php performance nut and knows the WordPress core intimately. He's a big data expert and can usually be found detangling complex logic. He loves working with teams and solving client challenges.
Jesse is an international media arts professional and certified agile project manager. A third-culture American, Jesse has lived in Central America, Asia, Europe and across the United States and has traveled to over 40 countries. Founded in the belief that video is the paramount medium of our time, his motivation is to create a safe, loving space for people to be seen and heard without judgement. A devout minimalist, his gift is demonstrating his subject's authority by distilling their message to its essential truths.
Jesse has over 10 years experience shaping content format and delivery, including managing international enterprise web systems, instructional media to help people with autism and corporate medical device marketing.
With 25 years of experience in television news, Bill has enjoyed sharing an endless variety of stories through words, pictures and sound. A career photojournalist, Bill has spent more than 20 years at CBS-owned KCNC-TV in Denver, where his photography for documentaries and special projects has earned regional and national recognition, including two Edward R. Murrow awards and 19 regional EMMY® awards. Bill's work has also appeared on CBS’s 48 Hours program and the CBS Sunday Morning show.
When not shooting for CBS, Bill enjoys freelancing for organizations around the world and devoting time to nature photography. He also serves on the board of directors for Lalmba, a Colorado-based humanitarian organization that helps refugees and orphans in East Africa. Bill is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism.