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.

Brad Cohen

Half cyborg, half bionic... All organic biodynamic. Storyteller. Portland-based Director of Strategy @ JESS3.

Fitzhugh Ryland

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

Jake Olsen

Technologist. DJ. Hacker. Father. Carpenter. Portland native. Co-founded Platial.

Jennifer Adams

I like computers. and startups. and cheese.

Aimee Fahey

Talent Acquisition Manager at Puppet Labs.

Tony Seminary (tony@itmotives.com)

CEO at IT Motives Co-Founder at Wuhcage Technologies

Tony Seminary (tony@itmotives.com)

CEO at IT Motives Co-Founder at Wuhcage Technologies

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.

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.

Jon Prettyman

Stephen A. Goss

Programmer.

Patrick Logan

Jonathan Bell

I am a start-up veteran who has recently relocated from Silicon Valley to the Portland area. My primary area of expertise is building early stage sales teams and process. I am anxious to find a suitable start-up opportunity in Portland which will allow me to utilize my past experiences with both "booms" (Neoforma) and "busts" (several).

Mohammad Hashash

Tim Krajcar

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

Dann Stayskal

Digital Craftsman. artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, internationalization, localization, web app development, cryptography

Kevin Meichtry

Ben Prew

Renaissance technologist. Amateur soccer player and fan. Imbiber.

Jeff Lavallee

print qw/code bikes beer perl8/[rand 4]

LukeOrdway

Growing and gaining momentum as a person. Tons of opportunities and motivation being finely tuned and focused everyday. Building my life. :-)

Luke Ordway

Founder of MyReplayLIve

Bill Burcham

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

Micah Elliott

Entrepreneurship (@Membean), Data Mining, Ruby/Rails, R, Clojure, Vim, Zsh, Gimp, Git, Ubuntu, FOSS, SysAdmin, Clouds, Vocabulary, Ukulele, Esperanto

Kelsey New

Pete Keen

Burgoning polyglot software developer that works at Emma, Inc (http://www.myemma.com)

Andrew Hay Kurtz

amywoodward

Office Lead and AppCloud Ruby Developer at Engine Yard PDX.

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.

Andrew Lorente