About : Crowd Favorite

Alex King, Founder

Alex is a veteran of Silicon Valley who relocated to Denver, Colorado in 2004. He has been doing web development since 1996 and has designed and developed enterprise software applications for Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers.

His expertise in web-based user interface design led him to begin developing his own software products as the need for these products became apparent. As his products grew in popularity and more time needed to be dedicated to expanding the products, Alex King founded Crowd Favorite as his full-time consulting and software product venture.

Alex is also well known for his open source contributions; in particular as a founding developer of WordPress and for his ongoing work in the WordPress community.

Shannon Brown, Project Manager

Shannon is a web technology enthusiast with over 8 years of experience in managing complex web development projects for Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and entrepreneurs. In addition to working with clients as part of development teams, Shannon has also served as a Technology Manager responsible for hiring development teams for web projects. Her experiences as both a provider and a customer informs her work as a technical project manager, allowing her see the perspectives and speak the languages of both clients and web professionals.

Devin Reams, Account Manager

Devin is a Colorado native with his BS in Business Administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder. His varying experience includes working at a Fortune 500 telecommunications company, a five-person management consultancy, and a Big 4 accounting firm. Having built websites since he was 12, Devin is a self-proclaimed renaissance man with his more recent work focusing on Wordpress and other social media technologies.

He enjoys playing tennis, golfing, skiing and eating at Chipotle.

Eric Miller, Sr. Developer

Eric holds a BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford and an M.Arch from the University of Colorado. He’s produced albums for “sneaky pop”® musicians and taught design courses at CU-Boulder, and has had some sort of web project going since 1995.

When not soaking in the beauty of Colorado or training in aikido, Eric likes to draw parallels between things and other things.

Shawn Parker, Sr. Developer

Shawn “Wookiee” Parker earned his bachelor’s degree in visual arts with an emphasis in photography from the University of Northern Colorado. After graduating, he moved to southern Colorado and began his career as a photojournalist, where he won a first-place award from the Associated Press for general news photography. Later, he relocated to Denver and started working in pre-press and graphic design while also teaching himself web development. A self-taught programmer, Shawn eventually earned a job as a web designer and developer for a computer hardware and software distributor before joining Crowd Favorite.  He now has more than 10 years of experience in graphic design and more than five in web development.

The son of a naval officer, Shawn spent much of his childhood living oversees in England and Holland. Today, he lives in Denver, Colorado. When he’s not obsessing over his Mac, his camera, the Subaru or a piece of cheesecake, he spends his time doting on his wife and two dogs. He also does his part for the environment and rides his bicycle to work every day.

Sean Klein, Web Developer

Sean holds a BA in Media Production with an emphasis in New Media.  He began web based coding in college and hasn’t looked back since.

When not at work Sean likes spending time with his wife Heidi, watching sporting events (Go Cubs and Huskers!), and enjoying the beauty of Colorado.  Sean moved to Colorado in 2006 and loves everything about it, except the lack of humidity.

Gordon Brander, Web Developer

Gordon Brander cobbled together his first website at the tender age of 14 and has been hooked on the web ever since. Nowadays he is a front-end developer with a passion for simplicity and a love of all things design. He believes the web should be a friendly, engaging and accessible place. If you want to get him fired up, bring up topics like “semantics” or “Microformats” and see him discourse passionately with whoever will listen. His philosophy: code should be beautiful, design should make sense, complex problems have simple solutions, form is the flip-side of function.

Born to a photojournalist father and an artist mother, Gordon grew up with an international outlook on life as well as a varied exposure to many different cultures. He now lives in the mile-high city of Denver and when not typing on his shiny Apple keyboard, enjoys the Great Outdoors, running and reading philosophy.

Jeremy Harrington, Designer

Jeremy Harrington is a certified usability analyst with a focus on creating compelling and attractive experiences for users. Jeremy has spent more than twelve years designing digital experiences. Most recently he spent seven years as a senior user experience and visual design lead for a major enterprise software company, designing product data management interfaces for customers like NASA Jet Propulsion Labs, General Motors, Boeing, Procter and Gamble, Apple and BMW. He has experience designing for desktop and web clients with considerable time spent developing Wordpress and web-based products.

Born and raised in the midwest, Jeremy lives in Des Moines, Iowa with his wife and daughter (with a son on the way) and is proud to say he has never owned a computer that wasn’t designed in Cupertino.

Dougal Campbell, Sr. Developer

Over the past 25 years, Dougal has molded his fascination with computers from a hobby into a career. Dougal joined the WordPress effort early on and developed much of the initial XML-RPC code and the Ping-O-Matic service, and now enjoys “Developer Emeritus” status. From the early ’80s to present day, he has worked on customized inventory database systems, and developed web applications for trucking companies, the hospitality industry, and a startup with a web-based video platform, among other things.

Along the way, he has contributed his efforts to several open source projects, the most well-known of which are WordPress and POV-Ray. Dougal comes to Crowd Favorite with a strong background in developing web applications in Perl and PHP, and with with an eye towards web standards and the emerging semantic web.

Dougal’s offline time is spent with his wife, three children, a dog, and a cat. He hasn’t taught the dog and cat how to set up their own blogs yet, but he’s working on it.

Noonan, Mascot

Besides keeping morale high, Noonan works tirelessly to make sure no crumbs are left on the ground.

She also serves as a reminder to go outside and lets us know when it’s time to go home in the evening.