re: #198 BeachDem

From 2016:

On Brad Parscale:

For starters, like Trump, he’s a political novice who has built a professional reputation for himself in Texas but has never worked in Washington…

He began by cold-calling local clients but soon graduated to major contracts with the likes of the Trump Organization, which led to gigs building websites for Trump Winery and the Eric Trump Foundation.
wired.com

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee hired Parscale in 2012 to build a website for Trump International Realty. Parscale went on to work on sites for Trump Winery, the Eric Trump Foundation and a site for Trump’s wife, Melania.
mysanantonio.com

Sound like they first used Parscale because he had low overhead, being in San Antonio—not sure how they found them.

IIRC, as part of his duties as IT for the Trump 2016 campaign, Parscale was signed off for 10,000 motel stays in Texas. Even then that was suggested to have a Russian connection.