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.

Matthew Richmond, Web Developer

Matt grew up tinkering with computers from almost as early as he can remember. He wrote his first web page using Notepad back in the mid-90’s, and has loved coding from then on! He’s come a long ways since that first page, and remains very enthusiastic about all that this ‘World Wide Web’ still has to offer!

Matt stays very busy providing for his family of 6 (he’s the only guy in the house), going to school, and spending time with his lovely wife and daughters. When not doing any of those things, you can find him looking for something new to learn, or admiring the Rocky Mountains.

Nathan Garza, Web Developer

A native of Texas, Nathan arrived in Denver in 2009 by way of Utah and Brazil. Nathan started creating web pages in 2000 while studying Psychology at BYU. After earning his degree he realized that he was making more money, and having way more fun, making web pages and hasn’t looked back since!

Prior to joining Crowd Favorite, Nathan worked as a front-end developer, a hardware technician, an insurance agent, a server admin, a flash developer and a business owner.  When he’s not writing code, Nathan enjoys running, hiking and spending time with his family.

David Ponder, Quality Manager

David holds a BS in Management Information Systems from Saint Louis University and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor. David’s experience includes working in a 5 person IT department, building database applications at a multinational consulting company, and performing various IT advisory services at a Big 4 accounting firm.

While not in front of a computer, David likes to spend his time snowboarding, riding his bicycle or motorcycle, struggling with his accoustic guitar, or playing volleyball, basketball, or softball.

Matt Walters, onDemand Team Lead

Matt has been has been creating websites since the late 90’s and has been using and building with WordPress since it began. He enjoys the flexibility that WordPress provides, having used it to create sites with needs ranging from recording studios to e-commerce stores. WordPress is something Matt is very passionate about, which led him to organize WordCamp Richmond (VA).

When away from WordPress, he enjoys practicing amateur photography, traveling, and trying to convince his dog, Atticus, that ‘fetch’ is actually a fun game.

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.