pingVision, LLC

+1.303.415.2559
http://pingv.com/contact

pingVision, LLC is a multi-award-winning interactive media design and development company based in Boulder, Colorado. Since its transition from an informal partnership headed by founders Laura Scott and Kate Lawrence into a limited liability company in January 2006 as pingVision, LLC, pingVision has designed and developed websites for corporations, non-profit organizations, educational institutions, online media ventures and virtual communities.

pingVision is an Acquia Platinum Partner. With strength in design and coding, and expertise in scalability and performance for enterprise-level deployments, we bring to every job professional experience in Drupal-based web development and deployment, information architecture and interactive design, as well as PHP, MySQL, Flash, video production, post-production and encoding, and DVD authoring.

pingVision is heavily involved in the Drupal community, with numerous module and theme contributions, active participation on the Drupal Security Team, Drupal.org website maintenance, Drupal CVS maintenance, Drupal 7 usability and development, and the Drupal Association. (More below in the bios.) We are regular sponsors of DrupalCon and DrupalCamp events.

And we regularly host monthly Denver/Boulder Drupal User Group ("DBUG") Meet-Ups at our offices on the 2nd Wednesday of every month. All are welcome!

Recent clients:

• Popular Science (PopSci.com), the development and case study of which won the grand prize at DrupalCon Boston 2008 (read our case study at http://drupal.org/node/233090)
• New York Public Library
• BMW, AG
• Sporting News
• Pregnancy.org (read our case study at http://drupal.org/node/388112)
• E. W. Scripps
• Stanford University
• The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

See our portfolio.

People

• Laura Scott (laura s), Co-Founder and President, has been designing and deploying websites for individuals and businesses since 1994. 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. Laura has been involved with Drupal since 2004. Laura is a Drupal.org Site Maintainer, Drupal documentation contributor, manager of the Community group on Groups.Drupal, presenter at the 2007 OSCMS and DrupalCon Boston 2008, and an active participant in the Drupal support chatrooms, discussion forums and email lists. In January 2008, Laura was elected as Permanent Member of the General Assembly of the Drupal Association.
• Kate Lawrence (klawrence), Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer, has held management positions at Hewlett-Packard, DuPont and a number of venture capital-backed start-ups. 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 Business School, specializing in Technology Management and New Ventures.
• Andy Kirkham (AjK), Software Engineer and Developer, is currently a Drupal.org CVS administrator, site document maintainer, and Drupal security team member. Andy maintains or co-maintains quite a few modules, including Scheduler, Janode, Authorship and Automated Logout, as well as a number of other custom modules soon to be contributed to the Drupal community. Originally trained as an electrical engineer, Andy specialized in power generation, transmission, automation, imaging and the black arts of analogue design. During the fifteen years he spent as a Hardware/Software Enginner 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. Andy received his ONC and HNC in Electrical Engineering from North Trafford College in Manchester.
• Kevin Bridges (cyberswat), Sr. Developer, is a 14+ 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. Kevin has been working with Drupal for several years, maintains the Picasa and Auto Assign Role modules and is part of the unit-testing work group for Drupal 7 development. 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.
• Al Steffen (Zarabadoo), Lead Themer, Designer and 3D Artist, combines expertise in XHTML and CSS with design to maximize web functionality. His Drupal community projects include the Studio theme package and the Hunchbaque theme. Other work includes 3D modeling and animation. Before joining pingVision, he worked in content management systems for Endoze, LLC. An aficionado of all forms of animation, Al continues as webmaster of Denver’s annual Nan Desu Kan anime convention. Al holds an Associate Degree in Computer Animation from the Art Institute of Colorado.
• Matthew Saunders (MatthewS), Sr. Web Producer, has been working and studying Technology for over 12 years. 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.
• Andy Lasda (alasda), Systems Administrator and Project Coordinator, has been professionally involved in technology for over 12 years as System Administrator, Web Developer, Application developer in PHP and Perl, and carries significant experience with Business Analysis, Project Management and development of web-based e-commerce and infrastructure applications.
• John Fiala (jcfiala), Lead Developer and Software Engineer, developed the Drupal Markup Engine and co-developed (with Greg Hines) Node Carousel, both of which figured prominently in the PopSci development. (See case study linked above.) Before joining pingVision he's worked on software for the securities industry, software for managing housecleaning companies, an online store, plenty of intranet sites to manage products, and a system for securely delivering documents over the web. John spends some of his spare time learning more about web programming, and some of it playing World of Warcraft. John earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University
• Ben Jeavons (Coltrane), Sr. Developer, is a member of the Drupal Security Team and developer and maintainer of the Jott and AWeber Integration modules. He joined pingVision after building grassroots-media, online communities for the Enthusiast Group in Boulder, Colorado. He has been working on websites since high-school, beginning with HTML and CSS he now relishes working with PHP building fun and challenging systems. A Colorado native, Ben is a graduate from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a degree in Computer Science.
• Matt Tucker (ultimateboy), Developer and Themer, brings entrepreneurial experience going back to when he was 13 years old, producing videos for local middle and high schools. Among his Drupal community contributions is co-maintainer of the Studio theme package. 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.
• Stacey Harrison, Office Manager, 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, Web Producer, 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.

For more info, please visit the pingVision website: http://pingv.com