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TRAPPER MARKELZ

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    • About Me
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    TRAPPER MARKELZ

    • Welcome
    • About Me
    • Instagram
    • Poetry
    • Music
    • Projects
    • Contact Me
    • …  
      • Welcome
      • About Me
      • Instagram
      • Poetry
      • Music
      • Projects
      • Contact Me

      TRAPPER MARKELZ

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        TRAPPER MARKELZ

        HUSBAND. FATHER OF FOUR.

        POET. MUSICIAN. CYCLIST.

        SOFTWARE STARTUP LEADER

      • About Me

        HUSBAND. FATHER OF FOUR. POET. MUSICIAN. CYCLIST.

        SOFTWARE STARTUP LEADER

        Trapper was born in Alaska, educated at RIT in New York, worked in enterprise IT in Chicago, and entered the consumer web/mobile/startup scene via Boston. He completed the Harvard Business School GMP program in 2015 and has lived the ups and downs (mostly ups!) of a startup CEO. He spends his free time writing poetry (check out my book Childproof Sky!), cycling when he can, producing techno music when inspired, plays video games, appreciates a good Bourbon, and reads/watches anything science fiction.

         

        Trapper has 23 years of direct experience building teams, companies, and shipping consumer-facing software products and experiences, many built around online communities. He is currently the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Beamable, a gaming development technology company based in Boston, MA.

         

        Prior to Beamable, Trapper was Chief Product Officer (CPO) of Disruptor Beam where he served as Game Director on Star Trek Timelines, worked with blockchain gaming technology, and managed studio production across multiple AAA mobile IP licenses game titles.

         

        Prior to Disruptor Beam, Trapper was the CEO of MeYou Health, working with large employers, small employers, health plans, benefits brokers, and consultants to deliver a wide range of clinically validated online communities that helped people move more, quit smoking, and improve their overall well-being.

         

        Prior to MeYou Health, Trapper was co-founder of GamerDNA, a digital gaming media company that derived insights on the gaming community. This intelligence was applied to many businesses in social media, online content, and advertising solutions for publishers and brands.

         

        Prior to GamerDNA, Trapper co-founded 360voice.com, an online Xbox gaming community that pioneered auto-blogging technology to drive new ways of interacting around games using data. As part of that project, he designed and coded a data-driven competitive gaming system for Proctor & Gamble that integrated into the Xbox 360 game console as part of a large media campaign that handed out over $100k in prizes.

         

        Trapper also worked in Chicago, IL for Spencer Stuart and Associates for over 8 years, pioneering agile development methods and the adoption of enterprise technology.

         

        Trapper lives in Arlington, MA with his wife Maureen, three daughters Hannah, Lucy, Alice, and his son Jack.

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      • Poetry

        Here is a selection of published works available online and in print.

        Childproof Sky, a Cherry Dress Chapbooks 2023 Selection, is planned for release in July 2023. Sign up for the mailing list to be notified. https://childproofsky.com

        Expected July 2023

        Demons Everywhere is forthcoming from Pangyrus literary magazine.

        Expected April 2023

        I'm Alive and So Are You is forthcoming from Poetry Online.

        Expected February 2023

        Passengers is available in the November 2022 #7 Issue of Hare's Paw Literary Journal.

        November 2022

        A reading of All I Have Left, performed at Follen Community Church, Lexinginton, MA, is available online.

        October 2022

        Anxious Prayer, Place of Stones, and On the Line are available in Issue #11 of The Banyan Review.

        September 2022

        Negative Land is available in Issue #16 of Wild Roof Journal. You can listen to a reading of this poem on their podcast. My reading is at 18:38. You can also watch the reading on YouTube at 18:45

        September 2022

        Rich People is available in Vol. X | Issue 3 of The Bangalore Review.

        August 2022

        The Longest Echo is available in Issue #17 of The Closed Eye Open Web Micros

        July 2022

        Will I Be Your Tragedy?, The Day We Talked About Death At Church, and End of an Era are available in Issue #37 of Shot Glass Journal

        June 2022

        Childproof Sky is available in print issue 45.2 of The Journal

        May 2022

        See You at the Air Down and Glass Coffin are in the January 2022 issue of The Write Launch

        January 2022

        Nowhere on All Sides is available in Issue 5 Fall/Winter 2021 of the The Moving Force Journal

        December 2021

        An Orange in the Sun is available in the Fall 2021 Issue 110 of The Greensboro Review

        December 2021

        Snow-Colored Home is available in the October 2021 issue of Dillydoun Review.

        Published October 2021

        Who Goes First, Scrolling, and When She Looked Over the Expanse is available from Cathexis Northwest Press.

        Published October 2021

        You Will Need Foor For The Journey is available in Issue XXXIII of High Shelf Press.

        Published August 2021

        End of the Road is available in Volume 11 of the The Stillwater Review

        Published May 2021

        A Midnight Clear, It seems like the back wheel got him, and Off to war, daughter are available in Vol 2 No 2 of Hole in the Head Review

        Published May 2021

        Marlborough is available in Issue 4 Vol 2 of Passengers Journal

        Published April 2021

        Summer Camp is available in the journal Prometheus Dreaming

        Published March 2021

        Walls is available in Issue 2 Vol 2 of The Dillydoun Review

        Published March 2021

        First Snow is available in the Winter 2021 issue of The Baltimore Review

        Published January 2021

        Boundaries is available online and in the compilation Words of Power edited by Kevin Watt

        Published October 2020

        Various new and experimental work is available on Medium.

        Some poetry work is available as NFTs on the Polygon Chain at InWriting.com

      • Music

        Check out my electronic music album Above available on Bandcamp, Soundcloud, and Spotify

      • Projects

        A few things I'm always working on...

        Poetry Collection: Childproof Sky

        Childproof Sky (published by Cherry Dress Chapbooks) is a 22-poem, 31-page chapbook about the loss of my daughter from SIDS in 2009 captured from the perspective of myself as a father and husband. The poems span 13 years and touch on moments of loss, sadness, resilience, love, and hope.

         

        Sign up for the mailing list at https://childproofsky.com

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        Poetry NFTs @ InWriting

        I'm always interested in experimenting with the latest technology. I have a number of poems available.

         

        A number of my poems are printed as non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) on the blockchain (Polygon) and can be swapped/purchased with MATIC.

        Read the poems

        My Company @ Beamable

        Beamable's mission is to enable Unity game developers to easily add social, commerce, and content management features to their games. If you are a game maker, come check us out! Maybe we can help!

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        My Discogs Vinyl Collection

        I did some Trace/Prog/House DJing back in the early 2000s. I still have over 250 albums and 300 records that I've put up on Discorgs. It is all classic electronica from 1999-2003

        Take a look

        My NFT Collection

        As a technology enthusiast, I love exploring the latest trends. NFTs are lighting the crypto world on fire and I am involved in a number of communities and projects. You can see a portion of my collection in this 3D gallery.

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        My Original Star Wars RPG Campaign

        In 2021, I wrote up a custom four-session campaign for Fantasy Flight Games' Star Wars RPG system. I borrowed heavily from ideas, text, and images across the internet to put all their pieces together for my players. I present that campaign here as a Google Doc and supporting Google Sheet and Google Slides to provide ideas for other players. If you use anything from my campaign, I'd love to hear about it!

        Check it out

        My TEDx Talk @ Youtube

        Fulfillment Mechanics

        In 2010, I gave a TEDx Nashville talk on the role of gamification in product design. It was an amazing experience.

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