EventCetera (dba of EventCentrics LLC) was founded in 2006 by people with a love and commitment to
the arts and over 10 years of experience implementing software for fundraising and event production and
over 20 years of experience in computer software development.
We are here because we believe that event production and advancement of musical and theatrical
arts are vital to weaving the fabric of the communities in which they take place.
Special events get us
away from our jobs, out of our houses, release us from our rote routines and allow us to come
together in another way, as participants and celebrants of community -- whether it's an evening of theatre,
a large multi-day music festival
or an afternoon of wine tasting and jazz. Performing arts entertain
and delight us but also to allow us to gather and have an artist take
us as a group somewhere that we might not be able to go ourselves,
and in a visceral way that just can't happen through a living room TV.
At EventCetera, we've spent time in front of the stage, behind it and at times even on it. We know what it's like
to have to worry about what seems like a thousand different details of event production and work so hard for something
so ephemeral, yet so important. And we know what drives the people who do it. We know how crazy it can get
sometimes yet how satisfying it call all be -- especially when it goes smoothly!
But most of all we understand the idea of running a non-profit on a shoe-string budget. Our system
does not handle fast sellouts of 80,000 seat stadiums. We don't sport a lot of glitzy graphics or marketing
materials and we don't have a large staff. Our clients don't need that stuff. They need
someone who will work closely with them and understand their unique organization the way they do, and provide
help with a flexible but powerful ticketing and donor management system that will meet their needs.
So, we're here to help. We "get" the importance of events and performing arts. And we "get" the
lack of advanced information management systems that can be found to support them at a reasonable price.
That's why were here doing what we do.
-Dave Lewicki, President
Nevada City, CA
About Dave Lewicki, President, EventCentrics LLC
Dave received his B.S. in Computer Science from Cal State Long Beach in 1992. He moved to the Central Coast
in 1992 and worked at Quest Development and Arcada Software (the companies that became Seagate Software)
as a software developer. In 1994 he left Arcada to pursue a Master's degree in Computer Science at Cal Poly,
which he completed in 1996.
He has worked as a contract software developer for the past 10 years, and has volunteered his time for
KCBX's Live Oak Music Festival, managing the ticketing process and creating many online tools.
He developed KCBX's current pledge/donor management system, the Wine Classic event management
system which handles event registration, donations, live and silent auctions, volunteer tracking
and a wide variety of reporting, and also the Live Oak Music Festival's event management system
including online ticket ordering and processing, an intranet site for volunteer tracking,
meeting minutes, comp orders, ticket gate reporting, image repository, and much more.
Dave has done extensive software development in the wine industry, including large integrated systems
for web-based order tracking and database systems for wine distributors. In 1998, he created FreeCase
Software, selling compliance automation software to the winery industry. In 2003 FreeCase was sold to
a wine compliance consultant who now maintains and supports the product.
Dave received his B.S. in Computer Science from Cal State Long Beach in 1992. He moved to the Central Coast
in 1992 and worked at Quest Development and Arcada Software (the companies that became Seagate Software)
as a software developer. In 1994 he left Arcada to pursue a Master's degree in Computer Science at Cal Poly,
which he completed in 1996.