Current Members


If you come by for a visit to Conjunctured, here are some of the folks you’re likely to find making big things happen! Come say HOWDY!

 

Brad Istre

The Sidedoor Studio

WHO I AM :
Located in Austin, Texas - Stamped “The Live Music Capital of the World” - I am an independent designer, thinker and creator that taps into contemporary ideas to produce a timeless experience. I have been a designer, project manager and a creative director over the past 7 years working in 2 separate design studios with a talented team of individuals. I have recently decided to take my skills and venture the world of branding on my own to create a unique, unseasoned, untouched, untried, unknown creative environment.

WHAT I DO:
I brand companies. It is that simple, but much more complicated when you look at the process. It is similar to building any structure — I start from the ground up. Creating a good foundation is the key to a successful campaign and helps carry it through to the highest level. This includes, but not limited to, logo, web, stationary, advertising, print, packaging environmental graphic design and anything else that might elevate your presence . I could even help you decide where to put that new piece of office furniture. Simply put I give you an identity that will give you a unique position in your market.

 

 

Carson Coots

Million Myles

Carson Coots is a brand identity and web designer with a specialty in new media and hyper-local marketing. He lives to work with companies, organizations and individuals that recognize the value of a great design combined with an genuine, creative message that communicates a company purpose. He advocates the use of new media to communicate and interact with peers and customers online to build relationships in an authentic way, which he believes will create lasting loyalty and increased word-of-mouth.

 

 

Cesar Torres

c3sart.com

Cesar attended The University of Texas at Austin where he received a bachelor of science degree in advertising and was part of the famed Texas Creative portfolio program. After graduation, rather than leaving Austin to work for a large ad agency, he stuck around Austin and founded kumulus: art + direction, with a strict client list of fellow entrepreneurs, tech startups and local initiatives. Cesar feels the best messages say meaningful things and do it in such a way that’s captivating and memorable. Ever the idealist and inspirer, he always tries to help people—professionally and personally—find their passions and tries to get them one step closer to changing the world. When he’s not working, Cesar loves technology, music, art, traveling and frequently likes to get away for some fresh air while camping or biking.

Cyndi Nickel

Cyndi’s linkedin

Cyndi Nickel has cross functional management experience with leadership experience in technology research, business strategy, operations management, product management, sales and R&D engineering. Cyndi was an initiator and founder in three high-tech businesses using emerging technology, while at Hewlett-Packard. Most recently she was a Strategic Planning Executive at Hewlett-Packard Research Labs. While Cyndi was at HP Labs, she improved the quality and value of transferring technology by 65% using a variety of operational changes, providing business consulting, and research project portfolio management.

Recently, Cyndi started a new venture, Telemedicine Up Close, which is focused on healthcare needs of rural Texas. The company provides virtual exam rooms that allow primary care physicians to remotely address the health needs of patients in nursing homes, hospice, or in home care situations. Also, the company is bringing to market a new point-of-care diagnostic for rapid detection of bacterial infections based on technology created at Texas A&M University. The diagnostic identifies bacteria and conclusively identifies an effective antibiotic, ruling out antibiotics to which the bacteria has resistance – all at the point-of-care, all within minutes.

Dave Winter

SEO Launchpad

Dave Winter is a 2005 graduate of Southwestern University, who has always thought big and likes to take risks and make the most out of life. After graduating Southwestern, Dave embarked on a 1-year trek across Europe, where in between hopping on trains and sleeping in hostels, he worked as a bilingual marketing coordinator in Barcelona, Spain and a tour guide marketing coordinator in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Upon returning to Texas, Dave became immersed in the world of internet marketing through working as a Web Marketing Intern for D Magazine in Dallas, TX for six months, and then joining Standing Dog Interactive as a Search Engine Optimization Copywriter. After spending 2 ½ years marketing hotels and resorts with the Standing Dog team, Dave branched out on his own in Austin, TX with SEO Launchpad. Apart from a passion for Search Engine Optimization & Web Marketing, Dave loves comic books, sailing, labrador retrievers, biking, and fishing.

David Walker

302designs - Organic T-Shirts, Unique Clothing

David Walker is 26 years old and a 2006 graduate of The University of Texas at Austin with a degree in marketing from the McCombs School of Business plus a concentration in sociology. Born into a family of entrepreneurs, David has been exposed to and been interested in forging new trails since a child. Passionate and progressive-minded, he despises the phrase, “it’s just business,” and believes that instead of a means towards wealth creation, business should be about forming a symbiotic relationship with society, providing a method to bring us all together and promote meaning in our lives. David is the co-founder of 302designs, an eco-friendly, positive-minded clothing company and is also the co-founder of Conjunctured, a retail coworking space in East Austin.

302designs is a clothing label whose poetic, artistic & unique designs inspire, define and push the limits of the t-shirt fashion status-quo. Our poetic & organic t-shirts convey a powerful, philosophical, and motivational message through our creative and unique approach. We successfully sell online and in about 25 retail stores across the country, most notably in Whole Foods Market.

Dusty Reagan

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Dusty is an entrepreneur, humanist, self-proclaimed “geek”, and lover of computers. He strives to add value to his community and is a proponent of the arts and local small businesses. His deepest desire is to make a substantial positive impact on society. Born and raised in Cleburne Texas, Dusty was resourceful and had a natural affinity for computers. Through high school, Dusty used his computer skills as a freelancer, providing design and technical support for local businesses. During his junior and senior years of high school Dusty fought a life-or-death battle against Ulcerative Colitis. Always the optimist, Dusty was thankful for the character he developed through his battle and for the insights he gained on life. Dusty received a bachelor of science in computer science with a minor in business from Texas A&M University in 2003. After graduating, Dusty moved to Austin, where he briefly freelanced as a web developer before landing a full-time programmer position at Direct Impact, an Austin-based direct marketing agency. In early 2007, Dusty left his full-time position to create Floating Head Studios, a web application company. Shortly afterwards, Dusty founded the Austin spinoff of “Jelly,” a community of freelancers and telecommuters who desire to work around other like-minded individuals. You can find Dusty at any of the weekly Jelly in Austin meetups consulting, working on Conjunctured, or growing Floating Head Studios.

Eric McGregor

Eric McGregor

I am a design, identity, and development freelancer located in Austin, TX that specializes in information architecture, user experience, and content management. I help individuals and companies understand the implications of media and accessibility in today’s web. I focus on simple, clear websites that are as easy to manage as they are to use.

 

Jason Derrett

Squeejee

Jason likes to dig stuff up. When presented with a mess of a project, codebase, or situation, he’s likely to just dive in and swim. After ten years of consulting experience, Jason finally decided to make the jump to the fun side of software development. He’s a pragmatist who loves elegant solutions and making code simpler. When not managing clients or cleaning up a messy Rails implementation, Jason can be found hacking away in the kitchen, snapping photos of inanimate objects, or biking all over Austin.

John Erik Metcalf

think27.com

John is a 25 year old entrepreneur and new venture enthusiast. John is a Board Member and Co-Founder of Texas Ventures, a nonprofit focused on accelerating young businesses and entrepreneurs. Texas Ventures is under the guidance of Dr. John Sibley Butler, Director of The IC2 Institute and supported by the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship. He has served as a consultant to companies such as radar.net, qipit.com and Mr. Youth. John holds an Advertising degree from The University of Texas at Austin, with a heavy concentration in Computer Science and a research emphasis in STS (Science, Technology and Society). A maven/relater, John is most excited when connecting people and businesses to form mutually beneficial relationships. John practices and holds dearly the concepts of empathy, critical thinking and awareness. Ever one for exploration and excitement, John is an avid mountain biker and a frequent skydiver.

Jon Rayphoto

Who is Jon Ray

I’m a “twenty-something” full of ideas and opinions. I’m not a judge. Given this fact, I am not qualified to determine if the aforementioned ideas and opinions are any good. But, there are companies that pay me big bucks to share these ideas and opinions. Apparently, I represent a coveted demographic and hold the answer to all of their problems. It’s all very scientific.

 

 

Kevin Scottphoto

link coming soon

Kevin Scott is a web developer originally hailing from Connecticut via NYC. He worked at Edulence for most of 2009 while freelancing on the side. In December he moved to Austin to pursue music and work as a full-time freelancer. He works primarily with the LAMP stack and Flash, and is looking to learn Python and Rails in 2010. He also plays guitar, bass, and piano. In 2008 he made a music video which can be found on here: http://vimeo.com/2105645

 

 

Lee Harper

451 Group

The 451 Group is an independent IT analyst company focused on innovation as it affects the way businesses consume technology. The insights of the analysts are delivered to our clients via syndicated research and advisory services. The 451 Group is known for its delivery of information with an emphasis on value-for-time, allowing quick consumption of business critical information.

 

 

Nik Daftary

Turn2Live- Discover Your Austin Live Music Experience

Turn2Live is online tool that allows concertgoers to find live-music by a “mood search.” In contrast to current live-music search offerings both locally and nationally, Turn2Live allows live-music goers to painlessly sift through the hundreds of live-music showings per week based simply on what mood of live-music they are feeling by means of an intuitive mood-wheel. Feeling like some live-music great for a date-night? Try searching for a combination of mellow + sensual and check out who’s playing in your neck of the woods tonight.

 

 

Riley Lynch

Teleological Software

Riley makes domain-driven, database-backed software for a variety of platforms. He’s currently working on web applications in Ruby on Rails. He has also worked in Java, Python, C, Objective C, PHP and Perl, and developed for Mac OS X and Palm OS.

Riley grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, and later moved to Seattle, Washington where he worked for Amazon.com. He developed the customizable database architecture used by Rhode Island’s BatchBlue Software.

When he’s not building software, Riley likes to play guitar, travel, take photographs and study foreign languages. He arrived in Austin, Texas in September 2009, after seven months learning Spanish and teaching English in Guatemala.

Sarah Vela

SarahVela

Sarah is a content strategist and developer for community building, marketing, and branding. She consults with organizations and individuals looking to beef up their internet presence through new media and web 2.0 strategies. She co-hosts the podcasts “Push My Follow,” “Back off Man, I’m a Scientist,” produces interviews for StartupLucky.com, Austin’s Social Media Club, and her own video interview show, “Too Much Information.” Her favorite dessert is mango slices drenched in lime juice accompanied by sticky rice.

Orchid 8 Consulting provides content development and strategy with a focus on marketing, branding, and community building. We help businesses and non-profits create a long-term, comprehensive game plan that focuses on website copy and design, blogging, and social media tools.

At POGO Creative, we want to know what makes your band tick, how you work together, and where you want to go. That’s what POGO is here for. Combined we have over 25 years working in music, media and web. We get it. We’ve played in bands, managed bands, run record labels, toured, and watched our friends succeed and fail. We love music and we know it’s tough out there. Let us help you do better. In the end every band has a story to tell. What’s yours?

Shelly Leonard

SparkNight

I’m Shelly, a freelance writer born and raised in Iowa. I graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in marketing and journalism, then worked for Principal Financial and ITAGroup before realizing the 9 to 5 wasn’t for me. In late July 2009, I co-founded SparkNight, a business that aims to create spontaneous, fun dates for couples. We’re currently putting our focus on the Des Moines market but will eventually branch out to other U.S. cities. I moved to Austin on a whim in September 2009 - right now, I like spending my time exploring the city, running and discovering Austin’s awesome restaurants.

 

Thomas Umstattd

Thomas Umstattd

Thomas Umstattd is a wordpress developer and social media coach. He helps authors and small business sell more books and make more money online using tools like Twitter, Blogging and Facebook. He also runs AuthorTechTips

 

 

Zach Taylor

Gnourg

Zach writes and draws comics. He’s been self-publishing since 2003 and is the author of books such as The Miner and the Cave That Ate Time and Bear Quest

 

 

Lifetime Members


These particular individuals have been integral to the beginning stages of Conjunctured. Without their guidance and support Austin’s first coworking space would not have been possible.

Jim Hillhouse

jdhouse4.com

Jim is a pilot, a photographer, and an areospace engineer. He’s also got a thing for coworking and Cocoa development. Jim has been with Conjunctured from the beginning. He helped in every way possible to get us on our feet.

 

 

Rajat Datta

rajat’s linkedin

bio coming soon

 

 

Sherry Lowry

Sherry Lowry

Sherry Lowry, MCC, is a lifetime serial entrepreneur. For the most recent fourteen years, she has delighted in taking the best learnings forward of six previous business focuses to now include in her services as a full time, professional business mentor and a collaboration and alliance coach. Her clients advantageously and consistently draw from their own and her own backgrounds. In so doing, they identify and expand usage of their own most natural capabilities and interests, plus extend their potential for innovation and new levels of partnership.

Drew Jones

Not an MBA

Along with blogging at NotAnMBA, Drew runs Aquifer Design, an innovation consultancy that helps companies tap into the creative problem solving power of independent entrepreneurial teams to develop new products, improve operations, move into new markets, and create real value. Drew has been an integral part of Conjunctured since its conception.

 

Alumni


Once you’ve been a member, you’re always a close-knit part of the Conjunctured community. A bond seems to happen when you cowork side by side with someone for quite some time. Below is our extended family!

Abdon Nacif

302designs - Organic T-Shirts, Unique Clothing

Abdon Nacif is a graduate with Honors of The University of Texas at Austin. He holds a degree in Management Information Systems from the McCombs School of Business and a concentration in Finance. He is native from Bolivia and born into a family of entrepreneurs. He moved to the United States looking for a top caliber career, a better professional life, and an expanded land of opportunities. He has worked for McKinsey & Company, Santa Cruz FC, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is an extremely driven person and loves the art of business; he feels business runs through his blood. Abdon is an optimistic person with high values in business. He believes that a business should grow under true values of integrity, honesty, professionalism, humbleness, and excellence. Abdon currently works at 302designs, an eco-friendly, positive-minded clothing company.

302designs is a clothing label whose poetic, artistic & unique designs inspire, define and push the limits of the t-shirt fashion status-quo. Our poetic & organic t-shirts convey a powerful, philosophical, and motivational message through our creative and unique approach. We successfully sell online and in about 25 retail stores across the country, most notably in Whole Foods Market.

Adam Kaye

Dr. Webstein

Dr. Webstein is a full-service, independent web development company, based in Austin, Texas. Dr. Webstein builds websites with clean, straightforward design and Web Standards.

Alec Robinsonphoto

Alec’s LinkedIn

Prior to MobiTech, Alec worked at Thomas Weisel Partners in their Technology Banking Group and was a Program Manager at Texas Instruments in TI’s Imaging and Audio Group. He received an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and holds a Masters in EE from Stanford and a BSEE from Georgia Tech.

 

Andy Skelton

Automattic

Andy is a Vermont born, Austin resident since 1999. He’s been working with Automattic, and their flagship product WordPress.com, since August 2005. He rides a Goldwing, uses a Mac and enjoys helping people.

Brian Buser

brian’s linkedin

bio coming soon

Carly Pollack

Nutritional Wisdom - website coming soon

Carly’s mission is to educate clients so that they can become their own “nutritionist”. Through her clinical experience of over 800 clients, she has obtained the tools necessary to coach a wide spectrum of individuals. Carly Pollack holds a Master’s Degree in Holistic Nutrition and is a Certified Nutrition and Lifestyle Coach by the prestigious CHEK Institute. Her passion for new knowledge keeps her on the cutting edge of nutrition. She will soon obtain one of the highest nutritional credentials, CCN (Certified Clinical Nutritionist).

Carly started seeing clients as one of the first nutritionists for Whole Foods Market. In the two years she spent with Whole Foods, she saw hundreds of clients with goals ranging from weight loss to healthy eating for Cancer and Diabetes. Carly’s no-nonsense approach to lifestyle coaching will guide you through this journey with honesty, caring and laughter. Carly currently resides in Austin where she works with clients in her private practice and lectures throughout the United States.

Catherine Crago

Semicon Group

To help distributed science, technology, engineering teams compete we have developed practical tools to help you context shift when context changes: cultural barriers, time and distance.

Cheyenne Martin

Aldea Artisans

My previous experience with social businesses and non-profit organizations has given me insight into Aldea’s mission and beliefs, and encouraged me to join its cause. As an advocate for entrepreneurship, conscious consumerism and fair trade, I recently joined founder, Matthew Arnold, in his mission to connect artisans from developing countries, such as Guatemala, to US consumers.

I have gained meaningful and important knowledge while working with organizations such as Breakthrough Austin, The Women’s Outreach Center, and Big Brothers Big Sisters. This experience helped me to understand the importance of the relationships we have cultivated and the ones we will continue to form. It will also continue to aid in implementing the operations of these social businesses.

The Aldea mission is to connect artisans from developing countries to YOU, sharing their authentic stories through the beautiful goods they make. We work directly with artisans to provide access to international markets for their handmade goods. Access to these markets creates income-generating opportunities for the artisans that are greater than those available locally, often doubling the price per piece she could otherwise command in regional markets.

Chris Treadaway

Notice Technologies

Mr Treadaway is a 13 year veteran of online businesses with experience in both startups and large enterprises. Most recently, he was Group Product Manager of Web Strategy at Microsoft, where he was responsible for the company’s Web marketing and messaging. Previously, Chris was the Founder/Co-Founder of 3 other Web startups: Cruising Speed, Infraworks, and Stratfor.com where he built the company’s first portal — a site that was profiled in Time Magazine and other international publications. He received an MBA from the University of Texas, and he blogs regularly on Web 2.0 issues at http://treadaway.typepad.com and on Twitter @ctreada.

Cullen Wilson

http://10hats.com

The web has been my playground, obsession, and place of work for much of my relatively short life. I was fortunate enough to have access to a computer and the Internet at a young age thanks to my father. My passions lie in development, design, and the constantly evolving market of web technology.

In my free time I enjoy simply living in Austin, with all of its sites and sounds. I spend my weekends at Zilker Park, Barton Springs, or at one of Austin’s many live music venues. When I need some time away from the city I drive 40 minutes southwest to a small town called Wimberley, where my family lives.

Cy Huckaba

Apaptdev

Cy is a results-driven senior technology executive with over 15 years of success using technology to achieve business goals. He a deep understanding of technology as a result of constant research and evaluation of tools and technologies, as well as many years leading technology projects both as a consultant and product owner. Cy is committed to continuous improvement and has sponsored and lead many operational initiatives that target improvements in resource utilization and forecasting, staff development, workflow, efficiency, quality, and communication to exceed expectations whenever possible and ensure bottom line success. He is also a respected leader, recognized for his ability to provide focus and direction in the fast-paced agency environment where client’s business objectives and project requirements are always changing, schedules are always tight and budgets are always shrinking.

Dakota Kent

dakota’s twitter

bio coming soon.

Dan Quellhorst

quellhorst.org

bio coming soon.

Dane Hurtubise

imdane.com

Dane Hurtubise is a lover of all things spicy, especially good design and clean code. Hurtubise holds a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin

Ed Melendez

ed’s linkedin

I specialize in the identification of opportunities and the launch of new ventures and projects. I spot trends early and develop strategies to capitalize on them.
While my career spans both for profit and non-profit organizations in variety of industries, I am passionate about 4th Sector organizations, businesses driven by a social purpose that are economically self-sustaining and socially, ethically, and environmentally responsible.

Eric Perkins

http://n2neuron.com

Hey guys! My name is Eric Perkins and I currently live in Austin, TX. I am starting my own little tech business after years of working for other companies, getting bored with college, and just general life.

My last employer was Instinct Marketing. There, we managed online marketing and telemarketing for the brick-and-mortar dating industry. My friend and I developed a large CRM project and managed the general tech infrastructure. Before that, I did lots of freelance for clients local and national.

Eric Tucker

Eric Tucker.com

Eric and his company, Semperex, make intelligent software.

He’s accusedly LIBERTARIAN and believes in personal responsibility, personal freedom, honor, style, fast cars, and world domination.

Irl Nathan

http://mousecloud.com

Irl is leading the creation of MouseCloud, a one-click collaboration environment.

J Weis

Watt Monkey

As the Chief Watt Monkey, my daily responsibilities include harvesting sweet bananas and coconuts from high above at great risk to personal safety for the nourishment and well-being of others in my tribe. While skilled at picking fleas off my collegues, I am most strong at vine swing and playing arial tag. I take my responsibilities very seriously, but do enjoy humaning-around so that the journey to our combined goals is memorable. When scrutinized by other jungle animals, or even attacked by neighboring tribes, I fight. The battles that I have engaged in have only made my strength and resolve increase.

Jason Moore

Orange Petal

bio coming soon.

Jon Ray

Who is Jon Ray?

I’m a “twenty-something” full of ideas and opinions. I’m not a judge. Given this fact, I am not qualified to determine if the aforementioned ideas and opinions are any good. But, there are companies that pay me big bucks to share these ideas and opinions. Apparently, I represent a coveted demographic and hold the answer to all of their problems. It’s all very scientific.

Kaitlin Robinsonphoto

link coming soon

bio coming soon

 

 

Karen Ngo

Karen Ngo Photography + Design

Originally from San Francisco, Karen had worked for many years in the fashion industry as a creative director in
New York City. For the latter part, she was also leading a secret life as a dog photographer. Her dog images have
been published in magazines and on calendars and stationery. She recently rescued her third dog while she was traveling in Thailand. She currently resides in Austin, Texas with her dogs Martini, Emma and Ping Pong. Her latest book, InDognito: A Book of Dogs in Costume is in stores nationwide and on amazon.com. You can order InDognito at Amazon.com!

Larry Kubin

LarryKubin.com/

bio coming soon.

Kyle Bunch

SEOintelligence - SEO tools, Blogs With Balls - Sports Blog

SEOintelligence is the easy, cost-effective way to implement a successful search marketing campaign. Our industry-leading hosted software solution provides you with regularly-updated insights into your site’s performance in any keyword category, and offers code and link strategy recommendations to drive your site to the top.

Blogs With Balls is the world’s largest sports blogger and new media gathering. Sports fans, writers, sites, teams, athletes and companies, don’t miss your chance to talk with industry leaders about the future of sports media. Our first event takes place June 13, 2009 in New York City.

Mark Hacker

Wildfire Films

Since completing his graduate program in screenwriting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Mark has worked as a story editor and script Consultant for Morgan Creek, 20th-Century Fox, MTV Films, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Imagine Entertainment, Columbia TriStar, and Humble Journey Films. He has done screenplay punch-up for Susan Sarandon, Scarlett Johansson, Russell Crowe, Julianne Moore, Holly Hunter, Nicole Kidman, Jeff Bridges and Jamie Kennedy. Mark is developing projects for Wildfire with Starz/Overture Films, CBS, HBO, Warner Brothers, Humble Journey Films, Jet/Ebony/LRMR Innovative Marketing, and Branding (LeBron James Productions), Our Stories Films, The Discovery Channel, and Bristol Bay. Mark is currently writing a feature film (un-announced) for Academy Award-winning producer Fred Roos, and Starz Entertainment. In addition, Mark has written story/scripts for some of the largest developers in the video gaming industry. The Journey of Your Life (writer, executive producer, Producer) is currently in post-production, and is in negotiations with HBO and Starz/Encore. The Journey of Your Life, Children’s book, written by Hacker, Illustrated by David Wallace, and published by Scholastic Books hits bookstores nationwide September 24, 2009.

Matthew Arnold

Aldea Artisans

After studying at the Acton School of Business in Austin, I returned to Guatemala to learn more about microcredit and fair trade. Four months later, I was able to found Aldea and continues to grow the company and multiply its positive social and economic impact. As for the rest of me, I live in Austin and sit on the board of directors of Long Way Home. I am a self-titled relentless social entrepreneur and a playful social enthusiast, spending my free time discussing business ideas with friends over a bag of gourmet popcorn or exercising among the parks and greenbelts of Austin. also, see http://www.actonmba.org/people/scholars/matthew-arnold/

The Aldea mission is to connect artisans from developing countries to YOU, sharing their authentic stories through the beautiful goods they make. We work directly with artisans to provide access to international markets for their handmade goods. Access to these markets creates income-generating opportunities for the artisans that are greater than those available locally, often doubling the price per piece she could otherwise command in regional markets.

Michael Hanratty

michael’s linkedin

bio coming soon.

Michelle Greer

Michelle’s Blog

I love people. I love life. I hate being at a computer but it helps me get to know you better and make good things happen. I thrive on using new media to Make Things Happen. Thus far I’ve organized a blood drive that doubled the traffic of a blood bank in three days and was one of the global organizers of Twestival, a global twitter-based charity event that raised over $250,000 for charity:water in over 200 cities globally. I executed the NameCheap Twitter Trivia Contest, one of the first Twitter contests on the web that gained NameCheap almost 8000 followers to date, was featured in Mashable, Yahoo News, and as an O’Reilly case study. Plus the customers loved it :D.

Jonathan Simmons

Penny Mosaic

I’m a graphic designer and front-end developer living and working in sunny Austin, TX. I enjoy riding my bike, boxing, hiking, swimming and meeting new people. I do own a television but it hasn’t been plugged in for months, a fact that I take great pride in.

Josh Dilworth

http://joshdilworth.com

Josh is a helluva PR hack. He’s currently rockin with Porter Novelli Austin. Launching startups is what he does. Well, that and filmmaking. We love this guy and we love PN for letting him and other great peeps cowork with us–what a company.

Michael Propst

No Sensor

I’m Mike Propst. I design user interfaces for web software at AOL. My most notable projects are Blogsmith (the publishing platform that powers this blog and many others, including Engadget, TMZ.com, Autoblog, Spinner, and a bunch more) and Emurse (an online résume and job finding service). I live in Austin TX with my wife and wiener dog. Say hey sometime.

Neville Reynolds

JobStrap

bio coming soon.

Robert Rasmussen

Moon Light Tower

Moonlight Tower is a web application development company based in Austin, Texas, specializing primarily in Ruby on Rails and with expertise in other agile web development frameworks including merb and django. Robert Rasmussen owns Moonlight Tower. He’s been developing, deploying, and troubleshooting web applications for 10 years and knows how to bend them to his will.

Robert Starek

Notice Technologies

Mr Starek is an expert in Microsoft’s .NET technology who holds 11 patents in information and data architecture. Most recently, Robert developed the intellectual property suite for Pinion Software’s Digital Rights Management enterprise application suite, while serving as their Director of Research until its acquisition in Q4 2007. Prior to Pinion, Robert was a co-founder of Stratfor.com, a global intelligence portal. At Stratfor, Robert created several patented technologies which are used today by the United States Department of Defense, other government agencies, and enterprise institutions worldwide to manage sensitive data.

Regan Coleman

http://xenient.com

Regan is co-founder of Xenient, a boutique consulting and training firm focusing on SymbianOS.

Scott Bellware

Scott’s twitter

bio coming soon

Shang-Mei Hillhouse

Ninth House Financial

I was a full-time finance professor for 7 years. Now, I am a full-time Vedic Astrology student at American College of Vedic Astrology.

Sherry Jones

Sherry Jones

Pioneering in the dangerous territory of the bistro business & art representation!

Stefani Zellmer

Swizzle

After 16 years as a writer in the advertising industry, working for agencies in Portland, Los Angeles, New York, Miami and Austin, she finally started one of her own. Stefani is now a Creative Partner of Swizzle, which she co-founded with her husband, who is also a writer. Swizzle officially opened for business in April 2009 thanks to a huge leap of faith from their first client. So far, so good.

Always good with directions, she’s happy to have found her way back to her native Texas and the town where she went to college lo those many years ago. While advertising has served her well, she has also dabbled in journalism, fiction writing and a few years of pounding away on the drums. If she ever found the time to pick them back up, she’d start a band and call it Mommy. But that’s a very big If.

Steve Odom

Ge.la.to

Steve’s hobby is creating rails applications that no one visits. Sites like smarkets.net, trivionomy.com, and quizical.net. He’s also created a couple of rails plugins; s3cache is one, and elasticrails.com is the other.

Trey Philips

Trey Philips

Word up. I’m Trey Philips, a web developer and recent graduate from The University of Texas, where I completed a B.A. in philosophy and B.S. in psychology. I do occasional freelance jobs for my miniature web development firm, Abogax. Additionally, I work on my personal Facebook applications, mainly Extended Info. My focuses in the web world are information design, usability, high-performance interfaces, and generally just putting out awesome, useful web applications.

Tanner Moehle

Tanner Moehle

I was born and raised in Corpus Christi, TX. I am currently living in the greatest city in the world Austin, TX with my girlfriend Cara and our schnauzer Jax. I am a Freelance Art Director and Creative Consultant with over 7 years of experience. I’m constantly exploring all things visual and live to solve creative problems. At one time or another I’ve had my hands in Graphic Design, Photography, Web Design, Directing and Editing. I find that the agency model can be stifling for creative individuals. One of the biggest downfalls in projects is internal resistance and micro-managment. I prefer freelance specialists to own projects in a collaborative environment. This promotes creative growth and allows projects to reach their full potential.