Nathaniel Smith

I am a constant learner, I love science, math, music, and puzzles, and I moved to Portland from Arkansas less than a year ago. It might please my fellow citizens to know that I had not heard of Portlandia until I had already made the decision to move. I am anti-hipster, but that doesn't stop me seeming like one on occasion.

Kate Bagoy

Design Geek. Oversees UX @wikisway.

Minu Oh

<h3 style="margin:0;">I AM:</h3><p style="margin:0;">A web creator with 9 years experience leading in UI, Visual Design and Frontend Dev capacities for 80+ projects (from scratch to final product) in retail, software, education, non-profit and ecommerce, from small to Fortune 500 companies.</p><h3 style="margin:0;">COMPANIES I LOVE:</h3><ul style="margin:0;"><li>Value 100 year old brand recognition over big exits.<li>Value evolution and innovation over expansion of institution.<li>Understands design is a strategy, involving creation of effective and meaningful experience, as well as emotion-driven aesthetics.</ul><h3 style="margin:0;">MY STRENGTHS:</h3><ul style="margin:0;"><li>Intuitive understanding of team dynamics and able to seamlessly adapt between agency, startup and enterprise environment.<li>Product minded. Fast. Iteration over perfection. "Ship it" mindset. I'm still a stickler for details (thank you, OCD).<li>Fast learner, growth-minded and excel in exploring new personal frontiers.<li>Proven record of vision, communication and execution.<br/>Partial Client list: Magento, Yves Rochers, Xerox, Hollywood Reporter, Zend, Foodzie, Pepe Aguilar, Conns, Portero, MetalDetector.com, Pebble Beach Concours, Popcornopolis</ul><h3 style="margin:0;">MY WEAKNESSES:</h3><p style="margin:0;">Spreading myself too thin (Solution: Create a set of short term goals based on long term vision. Take intelligent risks. Say "No".)</p><h3 style="margin:0;">BRAGGING RIGHTS:</h3><p style="margin:0;">I was the #1 lead designer + frontend developer of Magento's original core dev team and was responsible for much of the designs and HTML/CSS structure you see in Magento today.</p><h3 style="margin:0;">I BELIEVE:</h3><ul style="margin:0;"><li>Where I am and what I know now, is the perfect place to begin.<li>It's not just about working hard, but doing it for the right things, in an effective way, that brings meaningful results.<li>Knowing when to pivot or persevere, is an art on its own!<li>Personal fulfillment comes from building and maintaining meaningful relationship.</ul><h3 style="margin:0;">INTERESTS:</h3><p>I find it fulfilling to practice, or at least be aware of the common discourse across disciplines. I love going to museums, engaging in the Portland tech community, working out, philosophising, learning about business, economy and history, and general aviation.</p>

Megan McKissack

New media artist and aspiring Ruby developer

Noah Manger

Creative Projects Director / lead designer / brand manager at the Bus Project, freelance web & print designer, UI designer of TheBallot.org.

Eric Paxton

Little Rock native, husband of @nikkimopc, Ruby lover and UX Designer at Oregon Interactive. Say what again!

Brennan Aitken-Gantz

Entrepreneur. Pro-Hobo. Photographic Creative. Websites. Curious.

Nate Goldman

Web developer and perpetual student.

Emma McCreary

UX geek, personal growth junkie, meat lover.

Christopher Bloom

Drupaler

Robin Phillips Studio

Robin Phillips Studio specializes in inspirational imagery- design services to promote your business and unique visionary art and gifts. Robin Phillips is an artist/designer who enjoys working in a variety of media, focusing on inspirational themes in her mixed media painting and graphic design. Robin’s background includes studying art, design and psychology, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1997. Robin has 13 years combined experience in graphic/web design, writing, and fine art/illustration. Robin has participated in over 30 art shows and has worked with a variety of businesses and non-profit organizations.

Nancy Wirsig McClure

Piet van Zoen

Portland based englishman and web developer at @daylightstudio.

Ethan Brown

Chris Ackerman

I work for Bonzi Sports Software out in Tualatin, doing mostly web app development and a little C++ tool and php plugin hacking here and there. Also some Oracle voodoo occasionally. On my own time I'm playing with Node and Minecraft.

Dan Novak

e-Learning developer, recently moved here from Mystic, CT. I work with a lot of technologies, and hungry to learn more. Specializing mostly in SCORM and AICC, have a lot of experience forcing courses to play nice with Learning Management Systems (LMSes) like Plateau, SumTotal, and Oracle iLearning. Getting my feet wet in C# and ASP.NET in my new role, along with more advanced OOP in ActionScript. Got a hosting account supporting JSP, but haven't figured out what I want to do with it yet. Was playing wth Drupal and other PHP things, but my heart's not really in it.

Fitzhugh Ryland

@fitzhuge: @CollectiveAcenC Coordinating Council member, Artist, Designer

Bill Burcham

The closest I come to balance is obsessive interest in about five things at once.

Kenyon Gwillim

I am a developer with 16 years of experience, 13 of those specifically building and deploying websites and web applications. My experience was initially in the auto finance world. I started writing and maintaining windows and DOS applications in C, C++, and Pascal. During that time the company phased out their windows client based software into web based applications. That thrust me into the world of web development and Adobe Coldfusion (then Allaire). I primarily did Coldfusion development for many years and then another technology shift had me change directions and move into .NET development. Occasional forays into the open source world (PHP, Perl, MySQL, Apache) based on client requests. I also had a brief stint as the server administrator in addition to my development duties as small shops often require. I have familiarity with the complete life cycle of website development. From an idea to architecting, coding, QA, deployment and ongoing maintenance. I have worked alongside everyone involved with getting a website off the ground. Creative, Flash/Flex developers, my developer peers, project managers, account executives, directors of technology, as well as the clients themselves. Exposure to tight deadlines, long hours, quick turnarounds (eg fast paced environment) is something I am quite familiar with and willing to do when it is necessary to do a project right, make the deadline, or calm an upset client.

amandablum

The Suck Stops Here. I help businesses do it all better through tough love.

Matthew Wayne Johnson

Principal, Arutai Studios

Ramiro Jr. Franco

Front end web developer, rails /sass / jquery lover.

Jacob Reiff

Design, development, curation: @Wantist. Design, customer service: @keyboardtray.

Adam Edgerton

Project Manager at Metal Toad Media. Passionate about technology, the Internets, mobile, and digital marketing. An avid bike racer, photographer, outdoors-lover, pretend coder, and PDX explorer.

Alex Linsker

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

Jason LaPier

Web developer. Open source citizen. Author. Gardener. Homebrewer.

Mike Pacific

CT transplant now living in NW PDX. LAMP developer with Mobile experience. Learning the way of the Rails.

Kenn Wilson

Web development, primarily using WordPress and Ruby on Rails; web application deployment; open source web server stacks (http://www.corvidworks.com/). Also founder of Basil & Co., a cocktail writing and events group (http://www.basilandco.com/). Also one part of Colette Media, a small sewing pattern design and educational media publishing company (http://www.colettepatterns.com/). I also really like cats.

Kyle Drake

"This man had none of the attributes of the traditional scholar. He was highstrung, unruly, occasionally hard and insolent; he did not fit the image of wise, disciplined men of science. He loved games, the company of women, travels by land and sea; he was a free spirit in an impetuous body. No comparison with the austere scientist, struggling with stubborn mysteries. His discoveries were not the result of long sleepless nights spent in a laboratory, or of complicated scientific demonstrations. He loved life, and could not have borne such restrictions. Instead, his inventions appeared suddenly, out of the blue, a stroke of common sense, or of genius, sometimes during a lively game of billiards, his favorite pastime."

sandra

woman coder, web developer, soccer player, vegetarian, reader, thinker, movie addict, music enthusiast, nature lover, and appreciator of all things artistic.