Winery Quest iPhone app
is a mobile real-time marketing platform for wineries with tasting rooms and a navigation and winery information platform for wine tasters. Other advanced features are being added. It is integrated into WineQuesters.com's database.
Innovation: Mobile real-time marketing platform.
WineQuesters.com
is a platform for wineries to directly promote their tasting rooms in real time and wine tasting trip planning tools for tasters. It is initially focused on the California wine regions but may expand outside California. The project began in September 2007 and launched in March 2008.
Innovation: Integrating consumers and an industry in real time.
Intiri Designs
is focused our lifestyle residential product design project. The first designs available now are California Wine Country table setting kits. Innovative designs for residential lighting and other interior products are in development.
Innovations: Product design to improve human well-being in built environments. Development of a new conceptual framework for interior design. Design based on scientific research instead of aesthetics
DisasterPost.net
was created for mapping the progress of the 2008 Basin Complex Fire in the Ventana Wilderness near Big Sur, CA. It evolved into a real-time disaster mapping and communication platform during the fire. The project is currently on hold as we explore revenue models for it. The California Office of Emergency Services is not interested in helping to make this valuable service available to the public.
Innovation: Using maps as a real time disaster communication platform. Successfully prototyped.
A brief history of Intiri
Intiri started in 1995 to export remodeling products to Russia. During 1996 and 1997 Jim and Katya Preston owned a remodeling and interior design firm in Vladivostok, Russia. They also attempted to start a chain of hardware stores and import of construction materials. These projects were too early for the market so they moved to Seattle in late 1997. After a couple of years of self-study of Internet technologies and business concepts at Microsoft seminars they began the Intiri Designs project in Silicon Valley, CA in 1999.
Intiri.com is our corporate site. Intiri, Inc. is the corporate container for our projects.
A brief history of management - 1
Jim Preston, co-founder, CEO,
Jim has some 40 years of business experience in construction, public accounting, retail, and other industries. During college in the 1970's he co-built Preston Pipelines into one of California's largest underground utility companies, in the 1980's and 90's he was a CPA with KPMG, his own CPA firm for 12 years and an office director for Deloitte and Touche in Russia.
His own CPA firm was a part-time lab during the 1980's to research user needs and assist programmers to develop desktop computer software for over a dozen industries. Since 1998 Jim as acquired a working knowledge of 46 disciplines which he currently works in, along with some of the 5 disciplines he previously worked in. He works full-time on the projects.
A brief history of management - 2
Katya Preston, co-founder, VP, product designer:
Katya's day job is with a national employee benefits firm as the senior manager for strategic initiatives. In that role she develops a wide variety of projects in business analytics, productivity, reporting, and application development.
Katya works part-time on Intiri projects. She designs tabletop settings for Intiri and helps with other design, technical, and administrative issues. For WineQuesters.com she assists with mapping, data collection, photography, and videography.
Additional board members
Dr. Michael Preis
Dr. Michael Preis is our mad professor with a PhD. in customer service / marketing from George Washington University, a Harvard MBA, and a B.S. in mechanical engineering. Mike currently teaches at the University of Illinois. He was our VP of purchasing and logistics at our Seattle office during our Russian phase. He previously owned an industrial supply store in Anchorage, Alaska, and was a management consultant with KPMG.
Fred Walker
Fred is a former KPMG CPA and VP of accounting at General Communication, Inc. in Anchorage, Alaska. Fred has extensive experience with SEC accounting for this highly successful telecom. Fred has a B.S. in Economics and a Masters in Accounting from the University of Utah. He is currently retired.
Contact Us
info (at) intiridesigns.com
Intiri, Inc.
2464 El Camino Real #80
Santa Clara, CA 95051-3002
iPhone app development
We successfully developed our Winery Quest iPhone app and we are available for developing similar apps. Our focus is on apps that use maps with GPS and live data from a Web server.