Laura Scott

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.

Katherine Lawrence

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.

Andy Kirkham

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.

Kevin Bridges

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.

John Fiala

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.

Al Steffen

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.

Andy Lasda

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.

J. Matthew Saunders

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.

Ben Jeavons

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.

Matt Tucker

Matt Tucker brings entrepreneurial experience going back to when he was 13 years old, producing videos for local middle and high schools. In high school, Matthew developed several dynamic applications using PHP. Matt previously worked at Monarch Digital in Colorado Springs. Matt is currently majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Colorado.

Michael Trim

Michael Trim (Systems Administrator) has worked as a Linux/UNIX Systems Administrator professionally for 12 years after cutting his teeth on Slackware in ‘94. Since then, he has centered his career around contributing his expertise of LAMP systems for start-up companies in the Denver Metro area.

Stacey Harrison

has thirteen years of experience in the fields of technology and media. As Director of Writing at Ninth House Network, a corporate on-line training company, she co-created and produced an interactive web-based TV series and New Media Gold award-winner. Before that she worked as a producer, editor and writer on prime-time TV shows, including Full House and Home Improvement. Stacey received her B.A. in American and Film Studies from Yale University.

Elizabeth Hause

An East Coast transplant to Boulder, Elizabeth Hause brings over 10 years of solid experience in technology, engineering and business.

Before joining pingVision, she spent over 4 years at Six88 Solutions in various roles culminating in VP of Marketing. Her earlier career experiences span engineering and finance, including the Colorado Department of Human Services where she worked in planning and budgeting, Sapient, where she was Internet Engineer, and Arthur D. Little (ADL) where she was an Analyst in Telecommunications.

Elizabeth earned her Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Cornell University in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering. She holds an MBA from the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder.