Allen Rowland has over 18 years of experience in web and software development and holds a B.A. in Computer Science, 3D Animation and Game Development from Eastern Washington University. From freelancing to working for agencies, Allen has led teams, large and small, to develop all shapes and sizes of web and software related projects. In 2013, frustrated with how the industry separated the developer from clients and bloated development costs, Allen set out to improve upon the client/developer relationship. Allen started Bluefire Interactive with the goal to keep the developer and client in contact from start to finish of each project. This developer on-demand approach has shown tremendous results.

Marc Emerson is a software developer with 16 years of experience. He’s spent the last 9 years developing in PHP CMSs including WordPress, Joomla, and Magento. He specializes in WordPress and cross-platform app development, creating websites and apps that are intuitively built, responsive, and highly customizable by clients. Most of the sites he has built integrate with at least one external API or service, such as SendGrid, Mailgun, Mailchimp, SharpSpring, Marketo, Google Analytics, Twilio, and many others. He is a full stack developer with experience from the server level, all the way up through all things front end. His experience includes Angular, CSS3, SASS, jQuery, Masonry/Isotope, Slick Slider, PDFJS, Select2, and many other JavaScript frameworks and libraries. Marc has years of experience leveraging Visual Composer and Advanced Custom Fields plugins to empower non-technical users to easily update and add content to their sites without needing a developer, while keeping content layout and design within the rules of a style guide.

Dawna Sorrell has over 7 years of experience working with software, first as a quality and process analyst and now as a full-stack PHP developer. She graduated with an AAS in Web Development from Lewis-Clark State College in 2016, and she holds CompTIA certifications in project management and computer networking. Dawna has deep experience integrating third party APIs with WordPress and developing custom features for WordPress and WooCommerce.

Josh Chavez is a Software Developer currently based out of Spokan, WA. He graduated from Eastern Washington University in 2016 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. He has 4 plus years’ experience of Software Development using a wide variety of languages and technologies including C#, Jekyll, Python, Java, JavaScript, Azure, AWS, and SQL. His area of greatest expertise is the optimization of backend code and database management, from space, cost, and performance improvements.

Tanner Holm is a software engineer from Logan, Utah. He has 7 years of development experience and specializes in PHP, JavaScript and WordPress as a CMS. He enjoys pushing the limits of frontend development with the latest technologies to create powerful visual experiences as well as problem solving for data driven solutions.