Ben has designed, developed and supported high volume dynamic community sites since 1998. His academic computer science foundation and years of industry experience cover designing multi-tiered, scalable architectures (proven to ~60million views/day), content and community management systems, database and web server performance optimizations, and leading the conception, development and integration of dynamic features while minimizing resource impact.
Chris has been involved in the Web industry for over 10 years. He has an extensive background working on large and small scale sites, utilizing skills ranging from database development and server side scripting to HTML and CSS coding, with an significant emphasis on Flash. At Skull Squadron, Chris often takes on project management responsibilities and has a proven record for organizing the complexities of fast moving projects, and bringing much needed clarity and consistency to the day to day activity.
Damien has been involved in the Web industry since the mid nineties. With a focus in Java enterprise development he has worked on CarPoint, developed a machine part optimization infrastructure at Vykor, and worked on enterprise class administrative software for the state of Washington. His commitment to quality control and exploiting technology to advance communication and process is second to none.
Experienced software engineer, focused on .NET enterprise class web development. He has more than four years of professional object oriented software development experience working on a variety of applications from tank training simulators for the Army, to a fantasy sports site for MSN, to working on the Microsoft live.com search portal. He is experienced in user interface, business logic, data manipulation, and database development in C#,C++, ActionScript and PHP. He brings an academic grounding to the team that helps us adhere to current standards on the web.
With a graduate background in combinatorics and graph theory, Joe is our resident Google expert. More recent to the industry, Joe brings a refreshing problem solving methodology to the team, along with an artistic eye, having worked in a design shop in his earlier years. He has been instrumental in bringing sites online such as Tableau Software. Joe has a proven record to provide continuing maintenance to our customers, demonstrating an ability to quickly learn the nuances of a new problem, and efficiently moving towards solutions.
Brian is the newest member of the team. His proper bio is forthcoming, we wanted to at least have him listed as a first step!
