Alumni
Once you’ve been a full-time member, you’re always an integral 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! Note: Since we just launched our new website, we’re still gathering profiles of our 80+ alumni since our opening two years ago.
Jason Derrett
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.
Jason Cartwright
I am a Scientist and Engineer that believes in only using my talents to benefit mankind (for the most part anyway…gotta eat ya know). My specialties are computation and research for the applied sciences. When not at work or ‘building my brand’ I am listening to the latest music off of blogs, playing guitar (at least in theory), or out & about trying to find Austin spots that maximize the coolness-to-cost ratio. I’m a native Texan from Dallas-ish, and I’ve lived in Washington State– Okahoma, Indiana, and DC/Baltimore for some summer work which included academic research in Physics... more »
J Weis
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... more »
Eric Tucker
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.
Eric Perkins
Hey guys! My name is Eric Perkins and I currently live in Austin, Texas. 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.
Ed Melendez
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.
Dane Hurtubise
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
Cyndi Nickel
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... more »
Cy Huckaba
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... more »
Cullen Wilson
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.
Chris Treadaway
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... more »
Cheyenne Martin-Richards
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... more »
Catherine Crago
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.
Carson Coots
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.
Carly Pollack
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)... more »
Andy Skelton
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.
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