About erentzen.com

erentzen.com is the home of DJE Site Payments, an Ontario company owned by Darryl Erentzen.

About DJE Site Payments

DJE Site Payments is a business founded to manage billing and payment systems for online transactions. It was founded in 2011.

About Darryl Erentzen

I wrote my first computer program in 1979, when I was eleven; on a Texas Instruments TI-99/4 computer - a keyboard that plugged into the television and used tape for storage.

By 1991 it was a discarded 486 running windows 3.1. A friend and I got it online via modem and started exploring.

That experience led me to a Computer Programming Diploma program at CDI in Victoria, British Columbia, where I was employed as a bartender and felt like I was wasting my time unless I got back to school.

Professional Experience

I went from CDI straight to Manhattan during the dot com boom, had some fantastic experiences with thing.net; a web site that evolved from a BBS that served the International Fine Arts community. At thing.net, we hosted sites for some fairly well-known art concerns, Artforum magazine, PS1, Museum of Modern Art, and others.

I actually think they're doing important and meaningful work. Tthing.net got me a mention in Wikipedia.

Then I developed for fusebox.com, located in the flatiron district of Manhattan. At fusebox, we created and maintained sites for Chase Manhattan Corp, Time-Warner, NickelOdeon, CBGB, and others. I was in charge of programming and network maintenance for all of the sites.

Self Employment

In 1997 I returned to Canada with the intention of returning to Manhattan as soon as possible. I ended up operating a Web Development business called Web Plant out of an office at 600 Bay Street in Toronto.

My biggest client at that time was RDA International, who were the ad agency of record for Panasonic, Packard Bell, Hewlett-Packard, Pontiac, Bayer, GTInteractive, Microsoft, and other mainly Fortune 500 companies. Web Plant became the primary Web Development contractor for all of RDA's client sites. I hired a bunch of artists and junior programmers and together we executed multiple projects.

I decided not to return to Manhattan.

Up To Today

After parting with a business partner in 2000, I did a couple of one-year stints at startups. i|money.com specialized in portfolio management software and stock market simulations that they "white boxed" and re-designed to suit the branding of customer sites. They got bought out by Sun Media Corp., I got out just before and took a job with another startup.

ZOX Inc. specialized in business process management tools. Their goal was to build a dashboard app that would allow a real-time overview for any company. Great idea, I'm sure somebody will manage it someday.

*slaps forehead*

"It's the Internet, numbskulls! If everybody's your customer, then.. Aahhh. I see. You had no idea who your customer was. You just thought it was a neat idea and had some cash to burn. There there now. Ssshhh. It happens."

ZOX went under.

I also taught for awhile for a Youthlink program in Toronto called "Youth Skills Zone", we took street kids and taught them computer tech, as well as getting them counseling and help getting jobs and apartments.

Now I'm back to full-time contract work, and things are going well. I'm also developing an Affiliate advertising network on over 500 domains that I control.

For the past couple of years I've been working with another startup as their sole Web Developer, putting together a website application aimed at the Executive Recruiting Industry. We've finally finished a proof of concept and client reactions are overwhelmingly positive. Now I'm fleshing out the site, assisting in creating Candidate lists, and helping write the business plan.

You can get the rest from my posts. More soon.