Laura Scott, who also serves as Creative Director, has been designing and deploying websites for individuals and businesses since 1995. She has over a dozen years’ experience in television and video as an editor, motion-graphics artist and compositor and producer for HBO pictures, various indie film companies and a number of Fortune500 corporations. A graduate of The University of Chicago, she has a BA in English and an MFA.

Laura has been involved with Drupal since 2004, designing and developing myriad sites, including the original BlogHer community site, for whom she's also a BlogHer Contributing Editor (Technology & Web) and member of the BlogHer Conference '06 Advisory Board. She was a BlogHer Conference '06 Speaker and a double presenter at the OSCMS Summit 2007.

In the Drupal world, Laura (as laura s) is a Drupal Documentation contributor, Drupal.org site maintainer and Manager of Groups.Drupal: Community. She's an active participant on the Drupal development mailing lists and discussion forums, and (when she has a spare moment) maintains a Squidoo lens on things Drupal.

Kate Lawrence has held management positions at Hewlett-Packard, DuPont, and a number of venture capital-backed start-ups. Her background spans patented research and development, manufacturing, engineering, sales, marketing, finance, and strategic planning.

Kate holds a double-major undergraduate degree in Chemistry and History from the University of Washington, where she also did Masters Degree work in the History Department and the Far Eastern and Slavic Institute. Her post-baccalaureate academic studies have been in applied mathematics and life sciences. She holds an MBA from Harvard University, specializing in Technology Management and New Ventures.

Originally trained as an electrical engineer, Andy Kirkham specialized in power generation, transmission, automation, imaging and the black arts of analogue design. During the fifteen years he spent as a Hardware/Software Engineer designing high speed machine vision systems and process control equipment, he developed skills in C, assembler, VHDL and CISC/RISC technologies and many other hardware related techniques. In 1998 he founded his own UK-based ISP company and began working with Unix, MySQL, PHP and contributing to the open source FreeBSD project. Andy sold the company in 2000 and worked as a consultant while continuing to develop LAMP based websites.

Andy (known as "ajk" in Drupal circles) is currently a Drupal.org CVS Contributions repository manager/site maintainer and also a member of the Drupal security team.

Kevin Bridges is a 12+ year veteran of internet technology. His specialties include Linux/Apache Administration, PHP Development, Ajax/Javascript and SQL databases. He is an expert working with object oriented programming, GUI's and end user behavior patterns. Using the handle cyberswat, Kevin has been working with Drupal for several years and maintains the Picasa and Auto Assign Role modules.

Kevin began his career in the Defense Industry as a graphic designer for Enzian Technology and evolved into an applications developer that has worked providing services for companies including Charles Schwab, Collect America and Parts.com.

Ezra Gildesgame is a self taught computer user who has honed his technical skills since 1999. He has worked in a technical capacity for Amusement Consultants, the New Roc Funhouse megaplex entertainment center and the Knitting Factory music venue in New York City as a computer consultant (intern), website maintainer and music reviewer. His high school independent project was a collaboration with History professors to create an easy-to-use archival system for scanned images from a diverse library of print media using a web-server. Ezra was a presenter at the 2007 Yahoo Open Source Summit and is the maintainer of the Subgroups for Organic Groups module. He brings with him practical skills in Drupal (known as ezra-g), PHP, MySQL, Javascript (jQuery) and video .

Andy Lasda has been professionally involved in technology roles for over 12 years, serving in such diverse roles as PC technician, System Administrator, Web Developer, Application developer in PHP and Perl, and carries significant experience with Business Analysis and Project Management. In his last job, he developed a multitude of web-based e-commerce and infrastructure applications for Dalbey Education Institute. Additionally, he has been a major contributor to the success of various projects with GE Access, HP, and MCI.

Andy's interest in computers began at the tender age of 9, programming BASIC on an Apple II, and his love for technology has only grown. His thirst for knowledge and "learn-by-doing" disposition have provided him with a truly diverse range of skills and experience.

John Fiala has a solid background in software, web programming and systems administration; 12 years in all, six in web development. His professional career started in 1995 at Comprehensive Software Systems, Inc., where he was a Software Engineer for 8 years. For the last several years he was with MeetingOne as their Senior Software Engineer. His experience ranges from PHP, through Javascript, HTML, AJAX and ASP.NET. He is proficient in web programming with PHP, C# and Coldfusion, and is very experienced with various types of SQL and relational databases, including designing tables, indexes, simple and complex queries, optimizing queries, Views and Triggers.

John earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994.

Greg Hines has been designing and developing web sites for eight years and he's been active in the Web Standards community since before it was fashionable. He excels at standards-compatible design, cross-browser compatibility, and semantic markup, working in PHP and ASP.NET. Before joining pingVision, Greg worked on web sites such as Ars Technica and FilmWad.

Ben Jeavons joins pingVision after building grassroots-media, online communities for the Enthusiast Group in Boulder, Colorado. Since high-school he has had an interest in the web, from first learning basic HTML and CSS to now building web applications in PHP. A Colorado native, Ben is a graduate from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a degree in Computer Science.

Al Steffen is an experienced webmaster and designer with experience in site implementation. Al combines expertise in xhtml and CSS to construct semantic designs that maximize web accessibility and cross-platform functionality. In 3D, Al is an expert animator and modeler, with experience on multiple systems, including the top-line open source application, Blender.

Before joining pingVision, Al worked in content management systems for Endoze, LLC. An aficionado of all forms of animation, Al continues as webmaster of Denver’s premiere anime convention, Nan Desu Kan.

Al holds an Associate Degree in Computer Animation from the Art Institute of Colorado.

Donald Hajicek is a designer, photographer, and videographer, with a career that spans 20 years. He has worked as an illustrator, copywriter, Creative Director and Art Director. His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Bostonia, and other leading publications. He has a design eye that captures both urban and rural scenes, from the streets of New York City to the wide open spaces of Wyoming through his continuing work on Cheyenne’s Frontier Days. Leo Burnett, Inc., Ogilvy and Mather, Foote, Cone and Blending, and J. Walter Thompson are also among his past clients.

Don studied at the School at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.

Matthew Saunders has been working and studying Technology for over 12 years. Most recently, he served as the Senior Director of Technology for WESTAF (the Western States Arts Federation) for eight years, where he conceptualized, wrote specifications, sold, and oversaw the build of the highly successful online application system ZAPPlication.org, a revolutionary jury system in the arts industry currently used by over 100 art shows and 30,000 artists world wide. He also conceptualized the cutting edge CultureGrants Online grants management system employed by 20 state and regional granting organizations, led the development of sites such as ArtistsRegister.com and Artjob Online, initiated and oversaw the implementation of a fully redundant, server cluster for WESTAF's online systems, consulted with local and state arts agencies in the development of technology plans and Web based grants programs, managed of the online TourWest Grant Program, overseeing $430K of grant dispersals each cycle, and led WESTAF's Web 2.0 Team focused on Community Building through use of Drupal.

In other areas, Matthew acts as a moderator in the TechSoup Emerging Technologies Forum where nonprofits from around the world gather. He is on the management team for NonProfits in SecondLife, an international community of nonprofit organizations. Matthew holds a Studio Arts B.A. from Bishop's University, a Certificate of Arts Administration from the University of Ottawa and a Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Tech focusing on Internet technologies.

Kandee DeGraw joins pingVision with 19 years' experience in administration and event/project coordination. Prior to pingVision, Kandee worked in the executive offices of Wild Oats Markets, and for 16 years in Telluride, Colorado, worked with several theatrical and environmental non-profits, creating and implementing administrative systems joining diverse groups and organizations. At 22 Kandee founded a benefit for the Western Colorado AIDS Project “WestCAP” and Denver Children’s Hospital Immunodeficiency Program “CHIP”, which is now celebrating its 15th year. She currently is contributing columnist to The Watch, a western Colorado regional publication. Kandee majored in Theatre from Southern Utah University.

Greg Knaddison has been contributing to Open Source projects since 1999. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School with a degree in Information Systems, Greg’s technology experience spans the gamut from profitability models built with Excel macros to web-based decision engines built on top of Oracle. He has worked for large firms, including Arthur Andersen and Price Waterhouse Coopers, as well as for Azure Solutions and Charter Communications.

After years of building web applications inside the intranets of the world’s telecommunications companies, Greg now creates interactive websites enabling easy publishing and community interaction. Greg (who is known on Drupal.org as "greggles") is an expert in Drupal, Linux, PHP, Python/Jython and MySQL.

In the Drupal world, Greg is the maintainer or co-maintainer of several modules including

• Pathauto
• Microsummary
• Nofollow List
• Meez Integration
• Token Module
• S5 Presentation Module

Outside of contributed modules, Greg is a member of the Drupal security team, site maintainer for Drupal.org, a Moderator for Groups.Drupal, "disorganizer" of the Denver/Boulder Drupal User's Group and an active patcher for myriad issues.