O2CM is a software package designed and built to aid in the running of ballroom "DanceSport" events
Without the help of many independant contractors, there would not be enough support for all the events that use O2CM. Below you will find a listing of our team, where they are generally located and how to get in touch with them. Find one that works best for your event.
Standard rates for the technicians listed below are $525/day plus travel expenses. Feel free to contact one of them to help support your event onsite with Computer systems and Scrutineering Services.
Certified Scrutineer (through NDCA, recognized by WDSF). WDSF Adjudicator in Standard and Latin. Championship Certified Adjudicator in all styles (NADTA).
Software developer by day, head coach of the 125 member Purdue Latin & Ballroom Dance Team by night. Daniel has been scrutineering using O2CM since 2012, including WDSF Open Championship events, USADance Nationals and Regionals, MAC, and many midwest college comps. Like several other affiliates, Daniel owns all the equipment needed to set up a wireless competition, including enough tablets for 30 or more judges. Peaceful under pressure, he has enough experience to recover from any suprises, and to keep the show rolling, and as a former Pro competitor, a complete understanding for the dancers.
He is based in Indiana, and since he will often be using vacation days, prefers to travel with his wife Yuehwern Yih, who is also a WDSF Chair and Adjudicator. Daniel also co-organizes the annual Purdue Ballroom Classic, which attracts more than 400 collegiate ballroom dance competitors each year.
Joe Huesmann began ballroom social dancing in grad school at the University of Maryland. He was drawn into the competitive ballroom world a year later and has been involved ever since. In 2009, as part of the Mid-Atlantic Championships organizing committee, he took on the task of setting up all the hardware to run the O2CM system for that competition. He scrutineered several unsanctioned competitions over the following years, and in 2014 passed his USA Dance scrutineering exam.
Christopher Sayotovich has been involved in ballroom as a social dancer, a competitor, and currently as a scrutineer. He has scrutineered for Collegiate, Amateur, and Studio competitions all around the East Coast and Midwest including the DC Dancesport Inferno, the Harvard Invitational, and the MIT Open.
(2239)Amanda Ashcraft has been involved in the Ballroom community for over 15 years both socially and competitively. About 6 years ago, she has moved into the organizational side of competitions serving in various positions at competitions including Deck Captain, Awards Coordinator, Registration & Scrutineer. Amanda has been scrutineering for about 6 years and received her certification in ‘13. She has been the scrutineer at such collegiate competitions as DC DanceSport Inferno (University of Maryland), NYU, Harvard Beginners Syllabus Challenge, Holy Cross Ballroom, Harvard Invitational, Cornell University, Boston University, University of Connecticut Husky Challenge and MIT Open, as well as many other collegiate competitions. In the NDCA, she has scrutineered at the Caribbean DanceSport Championships, Wisconsin State DanceSport Championships, American Star Ball Championships, Colorado Star Ball Championships and Massachusetts DanceSport Challenge. She is also the registrar at the Easter US DanceSport Championships, Washington Open and Canadance.
Christopher founded the DanceSport Team at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 2003 and is their head coach and instructor. He started the annual Cal Poly Mustang Ball DanceSport Competition and was the competition organizer for the past six years.
Introduced to ballroom dancing in 1993, Mark became involved in competition, and competed for over 15 years. Beginning in 2000, he organized 18 chapter competitions and Six USA Dance Regional Competitions. Throughout this experience, he developed the O2CM system for DanceSport competition management and began scrutineering. Mark moved to Oregon and began teaching at The Ballroom Dance Company in 2008. In 2013, Moved to Fort Worth Texas to better serve O2CM clients across the country at events nearly every other week. He works all levels of events as a scrutineer, including NDCA pro/am events, USA Dance National Championships and WDSF World Championship and World Cups.
