Cooper Stevenson

Cooper is a leading expert in Information Technology systems for business automation. His award winning designs focus on expanding business intelligence and automation for medium and large industry. He moved Legislation through the Oregon Legislature and has written over ten publications for online resources. He is also featured in CNET News, Linux Today, and Linux.com. Recently, Cooper developed the first automated artificial neural network system for predicting financial securities price fluctuations and business process intelligence.

Project Management, System Administration, High Availability

Chris Harder

Manager at the Portland Development Commission

Providing business development assistance to startup firms; access to public/private resources

Susan Petersen

Hardware Solution Provider-susanpcfilters@gmail.com

Dust, preventative maintenance, education

Tony Seminary (tony@itmotives.com)

CEO at IT Motives Co-Founder at Wuhcage Technologies

Business Development Building a new Business Networking

Tim Krajcar

Technical Director at The New Group. Technologist, husband, father, musician, and aspiring pilot.

cto, architecture, mysql, engineering management, development management, devops, APIs

Eric Drechsel

amywoodward

Office Lead and AppCloud Ruby Developer at Engine Yard PDX.

Ruby, agile development, women in technology

John Tortorici

John has over thirty years of successful management experience in IT most recently in his own consultancy, Chart Solutions. For thirteen months until August 2010 he had been Executive Director of the Oregon Bioscience Association. And for two years, until Feb.2007 he had been President of the Software Association of Oregon. For the three years prior to its acquisition by WebMD in 2003, he had been a VP at WellMed Inc, with roles including Operations, Marketing and Strategic Business Affairs. Prior to joining WellMed in 2000 John was VP and GM of the Blood Bank Division of Mediware Information Systems Inc. (NASDAQ MEDW) a health information systems company which had acquired John’s company in 1998. Since its inception in 1980 John had been founder Chairman and CEO of Informedics, Inc, (formerly known as Western Star, Inc.). Informedics provided medical laboratory software to healthcare customers in six countries. The Company completed an IPO in 1983 and made three strategic acquisitions before merging with Mediware. John’s career in IT began at Burroughs Corporation where, as an Account Manager in San Francisco, he headed a team of professionals who sold and serviced mainframe computers. He then moved to Raytheon Data Systems as the Western Regional Manager and, prior to founding Western Star, John was the Bay Area Manager for Durango Systems, Inc. a manufacturer and distributor of business computers.

Executive Management, Strategic or Business Planning, Operations, Budgeting, Business Development, M&A, Team Building, Negotiation, Business Restructuring, Change Management, Contract Negotiation

Aimee Fahey

Talent Acquisition Manager at Puppet Labs.

Resume & Interview skills, Career Coaching, Girls in Tech, Students/Interns getting into the workforce

Brandon D. Wick

Technology marketer @McBru, global citizen, proud Portlander, new dad, Ducks & Timbers fan.

Marty Matheny

Manager of Software Engineering with experience developing on the .NET stack building collaborative health-care software.

.NET development. I've heard some feedback from the from folks new to the .NET stack that it can be tough to know where to start. I'd be happy to share some cheap and/or free ways to get up to speed.

Ryan Snyder

A Simpleton at @simplify, and a former Mozillian. On the side, tinkers on @foodgeeks and @nomsin. Spends way too much time thinking about food.

Tyler Hurst

Actual writer. Domino Street teamer. Inspirator. Opens bananas like a monkey. (almost)barefooter. Has name on shirt. Knows all the words to Baby Got Back.

Business writing, blogging, internet marketing best practices

Grace Ewura-Esi Andrews

Cofounder and communications lead @Wikisway, a Portland based data visualization tech company. Wikisway generates fun and interactive visual graphs based on various types of content.

Social media, Crowdsourcing/crowdfunding, Presenting, Public Speaking

Thompson Morrison

CEO of FUSE Insight. FUSE's easy to use Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM) platform helps companies quickly gain strategic insights into customer needs.

Jeff Schwaber

I thought this was funny when I wrote it, but now I think I was just being contrary: I was born, learned how to walk and talk and, some days, feed myself, and almost lost it all to the mysterious hole of programming. I received a degree that should really have been labeled BS, at least for its initials, and then moved to Portland to pursue I wasn't sure what. Since then I've been (among other things) a system administrator, database munger, and programmer, as well as a mushroom hunter, everything pickler and teacher.

python, programming, web programming, basic linux administration, fermentation, mushroom hunting

Benjamin Kerensa

Benjamin Kerensa is an internationally recognized open source evangelist, community manager, author and speaker with experience in systems administration, project management and open source development that spans a decade. In April 2012 he joined OpenPhoto where he is a Commmunity Manager focusing on furthering the Open Photo Project. Additionally he is involved in the Ubuntu Community as a Developer and Community Evangelist and is a member of Mozilla’s WebFWD Open Innovation Program where he identifies open source projects that are well aligned with the goals Mozilla aims to achieve with WebFWD. In his spare time Benjamin Kerensa champions social causes through activism and engagement with elected officials in his region.

Ubuntu, Wordpress Development, WP Optimization, Content Delivery, High Level Availability

Mandy McClausky

I'm a front-end designer currently working in web-based software development.

Photoshop, web design best practices/UX, CSS

Chris Johnson

We make world class, high end demo movies. Nobody does it better. (If you want my blog with sales stuff...http://instigate.me/)

sales, marketing, key account management, CRM,

Ryan Urabe

Hi! I'm Ryan. I used to be an accountant, but then I realized that building data models and coding was what I loved to do most. Now I'm learning Ruby, Rails, and Javascript, and getting better every day.

Jitendra Kumar

i M craZy

Peter W

For fun and profit, in no particular order: web & mobile developer, and active transportation advocate.

bikes, politics

Alex Linsker

community organizer, organizational democracy, self-organizing teams, federations, work, cities, UX, coworking, Contact Perks, "Collective Agency"

Community organizing.

Josh Blank

General Manager at OpenSesame

start-up, product development, agile product management, general business operations, general technology,

John Tortorici

John has over thirty years of successful management experience in IT most recently in his own consultancy, Chart Solutions. For thirteen months until August 2010 he had been Executive Director of the Oregon Bioscience Association. And for two years, until Feb.2007 he had been President of the Software Association of Oregon. For the three years prior to its acquisition by WebMD in 2003, he had been a VP at WellMed Inc, with roles including Operations, Marketing and Strategic Business Affairs. Prior to joining WellMed in 2000 John was VP and GM of the Blood Bank Division of Mediware Information Systems Inc. (NASDAQ MEDW) a health information systems company which had acquired John’s company in 1998. Since its inception in 1980 John had been founder Chairman and CEO of Informedics, Inc, (formerly known as Western Star, Inc.). Informedics provided medical laboratory software to healthcare customers in six countries. The Company completed an IPO in 1983 and made three strategic acquisitions before merging with Mediware. John’s career in IT began at Burroughs Corporation where, as an Account Manager in San Francisco, he headed a team of professionals who sold and serviced mainframe computers. He then moved to Raytheon Data Systems as the Western Regional Manager and, prior to founding Western Star, John was the Bay Area Manager for Durango Systems, Inc. a manufacturer and distributor of business computers.

Executive Management, Strategic or Business Planning, Operations, Budgeting, Business Development, M&A, Team Building, Negotiation, Business Restructuring, Change Management, Contract Negotiation

Jennifer Adams

I like computers. and startups. and cheese.

Linux/Unix, SystemVerilog, hardware, electronics, startups, resumes

chimaobi Kanu

Sam Livingston-Gray

Rubyist, papa, fair-weather cyclist.

Ruby, programming

Chuck Vose

Ruby, rails, web development

Thor Prichard

I lead a team of folks with blended expertise in education and technology to transform the process and practice of teaching in a global society.

Working with the K12 education market.