dojo4 | The Rapscallions Who Work Here

Anthony Dimitre

Graphic Designer

Our creative muse, Anthony Dimitre has a strong understanding of UX and specializes in user interface design, branding, and illustration.

Anthony has a BA in Graphic Design from WWU in Bellingham, WA. After finishing his degree, he contracted for Seattle-based Neverstop.com, a boutique agency specializing in event design and production.

In 2007 he co-founded localcents.com and participated in Techstars. In 2009, he became a full-time freelance designer in the flourishing startup community of Boulder.

His portfolio includes work for high-profile clients such as Ikea, Target, UniQlo and MSN. Some of his illustrations have even been published.

Ara T. Howard

Chief Technology Officer

Ara T. Howard (CTO) is an earliest adopter, minimalist architect, and prolific problem solver.

His background includes designing large-scale 24x7 satellite processing systems, building lean technology stressing startups, and contributing countless solutions to budding developers.

His work can be mined on the intertubes by googling 'ara.t.howard', but might better be discussed in person on an excursion high above the rocky mountain treeline, where he, his wife Jennifer, and children Axel and Nova do their finest work.

Corey Kohn

Chief Operating Officer

COO (and widely published photographer) Corey Kohn is a Boulder native who has lived all over the place, including NYC, California, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Germany, Holland, Austria, and India.

She started off studying biology and math, but ended up with a B.A. in Medical Anthropology from McGill University and a graduate degree in Communications from Concordia University.

Corey’s background in organizing high-level film and event production (from Oscar-nominated movies to conferences in Northern India) has given her a thorough range of experience in managing teams, transforming big visions into concrete products, and allowing innovative creativity and practical ingenuity to come together productively.

When not at the dojo, Corey likes to get around on her bike, reading books at the expense of lagging behind on her New Yorker subscription, wandering around with her camera to see what she can see, and having good conversations with the great people she is lucky enough to know.

Fred Jean

Senior Bit Twiddler

I take bits from bucket a, twiddle them a little and put them in bucket b. Sometimes, I put them back in bucket a.

– @fredjean

Adding 17 years of IT experience to the dojo, Fred's held positions at IBM, Sun, and Time Warner Cable. He landed in Colorado in April of 1998 (in the midst of a spring snowstorm), trading in his view of the St. Lawrence River for one of Boulder's Flatirons. He's been here ever since.

What Fred enjoys about web application development is taking "a vague, barely defined idea and turning it into a product that has an impact on people's lives."

A true Canadian, Fred politely tolerates Steve's Quebec jokes, but he doesn't offer him any maple bacon donuts.

Garett Shulman

Software Engineer

Garett Shulman is a software engineer and systems analyst with a background in large scale enterprise identity management systems.

He specializes in designing and building secure and innovative web/mobile apps, as well as scalable and robust cloud-based backend data systems.

Garett has been helping people and companies flourish through the effective application of technology for nearly 20 years.

Jeremy Hinegardner

Friend of the Family

According to his small army of lawyers, Jeremy Hinegardner is a "Software Craftsman, IT Generalist jack of all tech with a broad background in application development, tool building, systems administration, security, automation, ETL, data warehousing."

His executive assistant assures us he's good at "difficult problem solving, process automation, continuous data processing, application and process integration, security, Ruby, Python, DB2, Postgresql, SQLite, Linux, HTML, XML, C, HAProxy, nginx, lighttpd, Apache"

Put all of this together (well, his publicist did) and you have someone who enjoys solving the most difficult problems no matter what the domain.

His personal stylist adds "Jeremy's, like, a really accomplished speaker. And I'm all like, NO, really? I was like, sooo amazed. Really, and I'm all...like, no really. [sic]

Luke Miller

Junior Snow Diety

For days, we prodded Luke Warren Miller for bio material, but he's painfully shy.

What is known: Born in Nederland & grew up in Boulder (yet somehow didn't know Corey); ex-jobs: dishwasher, ski patrol, snowboard instructor, ski shop guy, ski factory worker, yosemite search & rescue, startup founder, fun hog; loves diesel trucks; terrible at most if not all team sports; prefers -30 degrees to 90 degrees any day; used to have a red mohawk...not that long ago

What his wife says: "great dancer from ballroom to the Indian lightbulb dance; loves candy, especially black licorice and fruit jellies; can read Cyrillic and Hindi signage, even on moving trains, without having studied either language; he and our son, felix could have a pearl street show together featuring the 'boy balancing act' and likely make some good coin; he loves snow, and if you have even seen him ski, you would see that snow loves him right back; also, he is really, really good person".

What's written on the third stall of the public restrooms on the Pearl Street Mall: Great kisser!

Not so shy, after all, eh, Luke?

Peter McEwen

Creative Director

When the Kentucky State Highway crew found ten year old Peter sleeping in a cardboard box along Route 825, they took pity on him. They gave him clothes, food, and a half-drunk can of Bud they found on the floor of their rig.

They were determined that they would give this boy a fighting chance in life. Each crew member would take care of him for a week at a time so as to avoid detection by the authorities. Child Protective Services be damned!

After ten minutes in the cab with their young charge, they cast those noble notions out the window, along with Peter.

That's pretty much how dojo4 discovered him: unkempt, cardboard box, Garett's parking spot. But, fortunately for Peter, they knew something the Kentucky State Highway crew did not—a kernel of wisdom we'll share with you here.

Always keep Bud cans in your glove box.

Ryan Cook

Friend of the Family

Ryan is general technologist with a history coding in many languages, including the most important of them all: Basic.

Ruby occasionally tickles his fancy, though.

His other interests include permaculture, indigenous rights, hiking, entrepreneurship, and imagining the future. Come by and offer him a high five—we dare you.

Spike Ilacqua

Software Engineer (Generalist)

The mononymous Spike is the sort of person who throws around words like "mononymous". Having derived the MVC pattern from first principles in Perl he discovered Rails and never looked back.

He's bemused that "what comes around, goes around" applied to software development and means that his knowledge of C, Lisp, and functional programming are as relevant now has they were when refrigerator size computers roamed the land. Not so much for Ada, that's never coming back.

Steve Bailey

Work Release Program

Every office has one: the guy who loves fog; the guy whose hometown is Mooseborough, NH ("A little north of normal"); the guy who's always selling stuff on craigslist. You know the one.

Due to a bookkeeping error, Steve was hired in June of 2011.

Fortunately, we've managed to keep him far, far away from clients—gave him a gardening trowel and told him to break ground on "the new dojo4 library" near the landfill. Shhh...our secret!

Wouldn't you know it, though: the little bugger's nearly finished. No, seriously, this is a really grave situation! Ha, ha, that's like a pun or something.

Anyhow, please send your ideas for keeping him occupied to saveus@dojo4.com. Tee-shirt to the winner!