Team Work
The Lab Zero team has worked together for years. We sport a full spectrum of skills: Web software development, interaction design, project and product management, and QA expertise. Some staff members have founded startups, while others served as seniors at large-scale companies.
Hiring Lab Zero means cutting to the chase. Our experts know how to join an existing team and get things going. Or, if you are looking to staff a full team for your start-up or project, our core team has years of experience working together. You don't waste time or money fitting skill sets and personalities together, or hoping an internal team evolves fast enough to deliver success. We're a ready-built think tank in perfect balance. And our collaboration is optimized for efficiency and quality. You'll find our core team in the shop every day. But our ability to expand as-needed really sets us apart. Techies, graphic designers, UE experts, content writers, marketers and more are on call when a project begs for a unique expert.
Chris Greacen
Chris enjoys solving problems.
Prior to coming to Lab Zero, Chris was Director of Engineering at Betawave (formerly GoFish Corporation), Chris steered the technology strategy supporting ad targeting, content syndication, and partner integration. Before joining GoFish, he defined and led the quality program for Donnerwood Media's launch of Meez.com, a 3d avatar site that scaled to handle over a million members within 1 year. Prior to Donnerwood, Chris was the Sr. QA Manger at Kodak Gallery, where he hired, trained, and managed onsite and offshore QA teams responsible for Kodakgallery's services in US, EU, and China. Chris earned his degree from Boston University.
Dean Baker
An experienced designer and web engineer, Dean brings a perspective focused on developer-driven innovation and user-centric design.
Most recently, Dean has been Lab Zero's engineering architect in the development of DNA Ancestry. He came to Lab Zero from Ofoto (now Kodak Gallery), where he spent a four-year tenure managing the team of web developers responsible for Kodak's Mobile, Premium and EU sites, and was a senior developer on many of Kodak Gallery's mobile projects. Before joining Kodak, Dean was the lead user-experience engineer and a BroadVision developer at IS Solutions Plc's US headquarters. One of his key accomplishments there was designing and implementing interfaces for a suite of BroadVision's Enterprise applications. Dean graduated with a BA from UCSB.
Matt Wilson
Matt is an enthused agile developer, architect, and consultant. He enjoys building elegant web services in Ruby. He believes that high-fives are underrated and measures the success of his day by how many he's seen.
Prior to joining Lab Zero, Matt's work history includes:
-Co-founder/Architect at Earfl.com
-Architect at Kodak Gallery
-Developer at Westwave Communications
-Engineer at Motorola
-Developer at Coldwell Banker
Paige Morrison
Paige is an engineering manager, web developer, and consultant.
At Lab Zero, Paige contributed to the development of DNA Ancestry and built several key front-end components. Prior to Lab Zero, Paige provided web development consulting to ProductCore and PurePlay.com. She worked with Dean and Jonathan at Ofoto (now Kodak Gallery) where the three of them built an efficient, motivated web development team. During her five-plus years at Ofoto, Paige rapidly moved into a leadership role and a management position in the engineering department. Prior to Ofoto, Paige developed online donation and volunteer matching software for 4charity.com, a service provider to non-profit organizations. She graduated from Colby College with a degree in Computer Science.
Shiun Hwang
Shiun performs technology research for the team.
Ned Holets
Ned has a passion for development be it web, iOS, kiosk or microcontroller. When he's not at the pier, he enjoys backcountry backpacking, making blinking things and fly fishing.
Prior to joining Lab Zero, Ned was a published chemist, led development for Wondermill Webworks and worked at a custom crush winery. He holds a degree in Chemistry from Reed College.
Brien Wankel
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Shannan Hsiao
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Cody Farthing
The East-Coast office.
Matt Darling
Believes that 9 9's is achievable, sustainability through re-use applies to all aspects in life and agility is the driving force in technology.
Humuhumu Trott
Humuhumu has nearly two decades of professional application development experience; these days Rails is her weapon of choice. She enjoys doing soup-to-nuts development of web-based applications: rock-solid application design & creation, with some gorgeous graphic design on top. Data models and color palettes thrill her equally. She loves to hear others' great geeky ideas, and then make them come true. When she's not putting pixels & bits in their place, she's out looking for tiki bars.
Jeffrey Carl Faden
Jeffrey is a front-end web developer, well-versed in cutting-edge HTML and related technologies. Jeffrey enjoys putting web sites together at blazing speeds, sugary foods, and cute animals.
Though he's been writing HTML since he was nine, he most recently worked as a developer for Linden Lab in San Francisco, and Diabetes Health in Woodacre. During his educational career, he studied Computational Linguistics at University of Washington, Seattle, and University of California, Santa Cruz.
Nicole Jones
Nicole is a writer, content strategist, and photographer. She loves tasty food, good design, and clear expectations.
Before joining Lab Zero, she led content strategy at Mule Design and communications at Apple Inc. Nicole studied English and French at the University of Texas at Austin.
Matt Ketterer
Matt is an iOS engineer first but enjoys developing on many different platforms. He enjoys traveling, SCUBA diving, music festivals, and shiny new gadgets.
Before becoming a Lab Zero Code Monkey Matt worked on a number of high profile iOS apps including the Starbucks Mobile Card, Bank of America, Citibank, FlipShare, and Royal Mail Smilers applications. He also holds a Bachelors in Computer Science from the University of San Francisco with a minor in Japanese. Konichiwa.
The One And Only Simon
Stick! No, really stick! Stick stick stick stick stick! Please? Pretty please? C'mon. Stick! Throw the stick!
Barry (just Barry)
Barry abides.
Derek Greenberg
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Elizabeth Glynn
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Sasha Voynow
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Breck Yunits
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