Leadership
Larry
Portaro
Director
We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. -Marshall McLuhan
Mike
Starmer
Commercial Leader
Smiles and laughter are essential ingredients to making great things.
Sam
DuPlessis
Design Leader
Hey guys watch this…
Randy
Reeves
Operations Leader
Recovering compulsive cat juggler
Rob
Bultman
System Architect
I enjoy animating machines and enabling great UX using mostly white magic.
Engineers
Justin
Brown
Product Developer
If you do what you love, it’s not really work!
Jon
Crosby
Product Developer
I spend most of my time answering Tim and Myles’ burning questions about how stuff works.
Tomas
Garces
Product Developer
FirstBuild is like a non-stop hackathon, building cool stuff all day every day.
Tim
Gillespie
Hardware Engineer
Mandatory witty blurb request acknowledged.
Joe
Gormley
Product Developer
The Hot Pot master and the master of all things purple!
James
Kim
Software Engineer
Up up down down left right left right B A – aka my cheat code for learning, making, and doing
Chris
Naber
Product Developer
Firstbuild product developer and proud of it!
Scott
Tarr
Product Developer
You have nothing to worry about. I’m a professional.
Beau
Muniz
Maker in Residence
It takes a village to raise a product.
Shop/Microfactory
Robby
Sanders
Product Development Technician
I have been making things my entire life, starting with messes.
Jody
Stull
Product Development Technician
Making a new tomorrow better with one bend, one weld at a time.
Jeremy
Turner
Product Development Technician
You will find me turning raw materials into useful objects and fabing up the future.
Sales & Marketing
Wilberto
Badillo
Digital Storyteller
Storytelling has always been a part of the human tradition. I am the DIGITAL STORYTELLER!
Michelle
Hewitt
Marketing Manager
So. I have a couple of questions.
Beau
Boyd
Sales Jedi
That guy can sell a ketchup popsicle to someone wearing white gloves.
Design
Symon
Harrah
Community Design
I talk about target market, aesthetics, curves, surfacing and user experience a lot… and coffee.
Jarvis
Ward
Design Lead
Useful, usable and desirable.
Community Managers
Mary
Beckmann
Community Manager
How can I make the impossible possible? This is where the fun begins.
Support
Debbie
Newkirk
Housekeeping
Debbie wants to be known as a nice person. Mission accomplished, Debbie!