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    John Hsu

    John Hsu

    Managing Partner

    Joined 1998

    Super Powers: Product Management, Strategic Vision, Company Operations, PR & Events Coordination, Recruiting … but mostly being “Chairman of Picking This Week’s Lunch Caterer”.

    Tony Felos

    Tony Felos

    Managing Partner

    Joined 1998

    Super Powers: Staring at the same excel sheet for many hours and still being able to remember my name, finding simple solutions to complex problems, and the uncanny knack to be able to eat a full dinner, and still be the last one standing at the “all you can eat” rib joint.

    Colleen Mirabello

    Colleen Mirabello

    Co-Director of Engineering

    Joined 2001

    Super Powers: PHP Programming, MySQL/PostgreSQL databases, builder of many reports.

    Kurt Milligan

    Kurt Milligan

    Co-Director of Engineering

    Joined 2002

    Super Powers: System & database architecture, programming in various languages, and the ability to consume more Mountain Dew in one day then should be humanly possible.

    Robert Swalley

    Robert Swalley

    Director of Operations

    Joined 2003

    Super Powers: Trouble-shooting problems and coming up with creative solutions.

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    Jim Pogozelski

    Graphic Designer

    Joined 2004

    Super Powers: All that visual stuff — Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Web Design, css, actionscript…

    Marko Bukovac

    Marko Bukovac

    Account Manager/ Developer

    Joined 2004

    Super Powers: Project management, PHP/MySQL programming, ability to be funny without other people realizing it.

    Matt DeChellis

    Matt DeChellis

    Quality Assurance Engineer

    Joined 2004

    Marc Galbraith

    Marc Galbraith

    Quality Assurance (Group Leader)

    Joined 2005

    Super Powers: Trussing a chicken with my eyes closed, flipping food in my sauté pan, a high tolerance to hot surfaces and being ONE with my knives. I also have the unique ability to know when beer:30 starts without ever looking at a clock.

    David Gucwa

    David Gucwa

    Developer (Dragon)

    Joined 2006

    Super Power: Software Architecture and Engineering

    Mary Malmros

    Mary Malmros

    Product Guru (Presto)

    Joined 2006

    Super Powers: Herding cats, the written word, distorting the truth in color with Excel, member of the CST (the Cheat Surgical Team), reading and understanding specs, writing specs that other people can understand, brewing beer, pratfalls, impact injuries and lacerations, teaching people how to ski, and determining the breaking point of any given piece of software.

    Scott Yaffe

    Scott Yaffe

    Account Manager (Group Leader)

    Joined 2006

    Super Powers: Knowing when things are about to go sideways and stepping in to prevent that from happening. Taking one for the team. Assuring clients that “we got this”.

    Matthew Lerner

    Matthew Lerner

    Developer (Presto)

    Joined 2008

    Super Powers: Codes tall buildings in a single bound, more knowledgeable than a locomotive, types faster than a speeding bullet.

    Molly Montgomery

    Molly Montgomery

    Technical Support

    Joined 2008

    Super Power: Support for SASSIE.

    Andreea Olea

    Andreea Olea

    Developer

    Joined 2010

    Eric Chan

    Eric Chan

    Developer

    Joined 2011

    Ken Morino

    Ken Morino

    Project Manager

    Joined 2011

    Super Power: Things and Stuff.

    Val Galbraith

    Valerie Galbraith

    Quality Assurance Engineer

    Joined 2012

    Super Power: QA for mostly Core projects, Master of test plans and organization.

    Ben Nowak

    Ben Nowak

    Controller

    Joined 2012

    Super Power: Accounting and Finance

    Cara Cunningham

    Cara Cunningham

    Technical Support

    Joined 2012

    Super Powers: Troubleshooting, problem solving, maximizing efficiency, locating solutions from the depths of the internet.

    Ryan McClure

    Ryan McClure

    Developer (Group Leader)

    Joined 2012

    Audrey Mosher

    Audrey Mosher

    Developer

    Joined 2013

    Super Power: Writing Toolz Reports, Answering Your Questions About Toolz Reports, Fixing HTML/CSS, Shoveling Data Around With A SQL-Spade

    Jonathan Bergstrom

    Jonathan Bergstrom (Bergie)

    Quality Assurance Engineer

    Joined 2014

    Super Power: Quality Testing, Automation, and occasional Server Killer (sorry!).

    Toby

    Toby

    Chief Canine Officer

    Joined 2014

    Super Power: Can catch any throw in a game of fetch.

    Elise Ratchford

    Elise Ratchford

    Director of Business Development

    Joined 2015

    Super Power: Hyping up awesome new features, turning ideas into concrete results.

    Amy Braley

    Amy Braley

    Project Manager

    Joined 2016

    Super Power: Working with our clients to provide solutions for all their clients’ needs.

    Rodrigo Vieira

    Rodrigo Vieira

    Systems Engineer

    Joined 2016

    Super Power: I just try to keep all our things running well, like our AWS instances, our data center and Linode servers, and our network services.

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    Katie Coleman

    Quality Assurance

    Joined 2018

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