WE ARE MOBOMO.

Barg Upender

Founder

Barg Upender is the Founder of Mobomo, with over twenty years of software development experience for federal and commercial customers. He specializes in mobile app development, user experience design, Web 2.0 designs, social media, cross-browser development, and Agile project management.

Barg has written numerous articles, and presented workshops at various conferences: he has received many awards for his user experience expertise. With two successful companies (Mobomo and Intridea, a web application development company) to his name, Barg was elected as one of Washingtonian magazine’s Top 100 Tech Titans in the D.C.-metro area.

He holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Connecticut, a MSEE in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, and a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Hartford. He is a 2008 alumni of the prestigious MindShare CEO Network, the leading entrepreneur network in the DC-metro area.

Ken Fang

President

Ken Fang is the President of Mobomo, primarily overseeing the strategy and operations of the company. He works closely with clients to create mobile solutions to meet their strategic needs, and is adept at developing apps on all major mobile platforms, including iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, and mobile web. In addition to running Mobomo, Ken is the founder and chairman of Altum, Inc., the market leader of enterprise grants management and performance management solutions for federal and philanthropic organizations. In 2009, the Washington Business Journal recognized Ken as one of the D.C.-metro area’s top minority business leaders; additionally, he has published a number of titles and articles in educational software and advanced computing technology. He holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University, an M.B.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a certificate in Bioinformatics from Stanford University.

Brian Lacey

CEO

Brian Lacey was named CEO of Mobomo in April of 2015, since the company has grown around 50% in revenue and 50% in employee growth each year. Under his leadership he has led Mobomo to being named to the Inc. 5000 fastest growing companies (2015,2016), Best Places to Work (2016), Webby Award (2016), Muse Creative Award(2016), DCA Live Media(2016), Top website and mobile developer by Clutch (2015, 2016).

Brian serves as a thought leader in the industry recently being named as an industry chair to Advanced Technology Academic Research Center.

He received a double B.A. in Economics and Psychology from Claremont McKenna College.

Wendy Kessell

Board Member

Wendy Fyock is Mobomo’s Chief Financial Officer. She manages all financial and administrative aspects of Mobomo and oversees its security matters. Wendy holds a BS in Accounting and Management from the University of Maryland University College, graduating in three and half years while working full time in the Accounting Department of a satellite manufacturing company. She passed the CPA exam at her first sitting in 1991 and became a Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM) in 2007. She also is a notary.

Wendy joined Mobomo as a partner in 2011. She also is the CFO of Altum, Inc. (since 1999) and the CFO and Managing Partner of Dimora Enterprises (since 2014).

Prior to Altum and Mobomo, she was the Controller (1992-1994) of Keystone Corporation, a telecommunications company. Keystone was purchased in 1995 by the owner of National Telecom, USA. Wendy was CFO of both companies from 1995 to 1998 when the telecom consortium relocated all operations to Florida. Wendy started her own public accounting firm in 1998 which she sold to Metro, Metro and Associates in 2008.

In 2015, Wendy was recognized with an Executive Management Award by Smart CEO Magazine. This is her third award by Smart CEO Magazine as in 2010, the publication chose Wendy for a Smart CFO Award and her fellow finalists selected her as THE Smart CFO. The Executive Management award celebrates C-Suite executives for their creative management, vision, leadership philosophy, innovative strategy and undeniable work ethic. In 2015, Wendy also was recognized by Who’s Who of Distinguished Alumni for ascending the summit of professional accomplishment and by The National Association of Professional Woman as VIP Woman of the Year Circle for 2015-2016 for excellence, leadership and commitment to her profession, while encouraging the achievement of Professional Women.

Shawn MacFarland

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Shawn MacFarland is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Mobomo, bringing more than 20 years of software engineering experience designing and developing both federal and commercial enterprise solutions. Over his career he has developed shrink wrapped and mobile apps, lead teams and business units, linearized legacy costs and championed modern approaches, and most recently architected and directed the creation of an AWS dual Region FedRAMP compliant Content Management PAAS. He loves to solve complex technical problems and to oversee the implementation of solutions to those problems. Over the years he has worked with large projects based on COM/CORBA C++ Enterprise, JAVA EE, Ruby on Rails, Percussion, both Drupal and WordPress CMSes, and node.js. He is OS agnostic, loving Linux and Windows equally, so long as the master-images are CIS-Benchmark compliant and current with security patches. Rather than focusing on a specific language stack, he advocates polyglot solutions to leverage language strengths to the specific problems spaces in which they excel. Because he respects the difficulty of distributed computing problems he prefers cloud service solutions particularly AWS-based offerings, to the creation of custom coded solutions to handle enterprise infrastructure services. He is currently driving company wide technical vision and coordinating multi-discipline engineering teams to make this vision a reality. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Paula Cintioni

Director

Ms. Paula Cintioni is the lead interaction designer at Mobomo. She has 9+ years of experience, including web/mobile interface, interaction, and usability design. Her job consists of directing the strategy and delivery schedule of all graphics deliverables. In addition, she’s the director of our team in Buenos Aires coordinating the whole offshore operation.

Gerardo Pinkus

Creative Director

Gerardo Pinkus has been passionately delivering exceptional graphic design for 8 years now. As Mobomo’s Art Director, he’s the beacon that leads all the design efforts to bring every product delivered to its highest quality. Mr. Pinkus’ attention to detail and talent help him set the desired styles tailored to fulfill every client’s needs.
His first steps in the digital world began years ago designing websites for a variety of clients at design studios. Later on, he jumped on board into the mobile world to which he has devoted his career up to today.

William Haymes

Director

William is a Director with two decades of experience in IT. Working on whitehouse.gov with both the Clinton and Bush administrations, William started his professional life as a graphic designer and worked his way up to be the manager of Web Technologies and Application Support for the White House. Having additional experience with other Washington-based organizations, he’s well equipped to navigate the special challenges that beltway projects can contain. Known for a good sense of humor, William can make the most of any situation and works hard to make everyone’s experiences as stress-free as possible. When not building SharePoint lists or PowerPoint decks, William likes to play with his two dogs, two cats, and three guitars. (Not all at the same time, of course.)

Jason Schulte

VP of Engineering

Mr. Schulte is a Senior Software Engineer at Mobomo. With more than 10 years of software engineering experience, he has exceptional proficiency in designing and developing enterprise applications. Prior to joining Mobomo, Jason founded and ran his own company, Exceptual Technologies, which focused on providing infrastructure, hosting, and web development for businesses. Jason’s software expertise includes MySQL, JavaScript, JQuery, Xen, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and PHP, amongst many others. Additionally, he has deep expertise with content management systems, such as Drupal and WordPress. Besides coding, he enjoys coaching junior developers and providing top-tier support to end users and clients. Jason holds degrees in Computer Science from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, and Missouri State University.

Karandeep Kang

Director of Sales

Karandeep Kang is a Director at Mobomo, bringing extensive expertise in quality assurance, test management, test automation, requirements gathering, and development management. He received a B.S. in Neuroscience from the College of William & Mary.

Mary Matalas

Director

Mary Matalas has over 15 years of client-focused experience developing strategy and leading teams in delivering digital, social networking and cloud-based platform solutions with both public sector and commercial clients. Her strengths are in working collaboratively with clients to build long lasting, trust-based relationships and in building creative, motivated cross-functional teams that deliver high quality services and products.

Ryan McNey

Director

Ryan McNey is a Director at Mobomo. He brings 6+ years of IT experience supporting federal and commercial clients, with a specific focus on Systems Integration. Ryan is passionate about design, problem-solving, and collaboration. He received a B.S. in Business Management from West Virginia University

Austin White

Director

Austin White is a Director leading complex mobile, web and cloud infrastructure development for at NASA and the International Trade Administration within Mobomo’s Federal Practice as well as a number of political organizations on the commercial side. Austin, a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM), also develops on the Microsoft Dynamics platform and the Atlasssian suite. Prior to joining Mobomo, Austin served as a Senior Consultant for Blackstone Technology Group’s Digital Services practice, managing enterprise digital transformation efforts for top U.S. financial and energy firms. 

Peter Van

Director

Peter Van utilizes Agile and Scrum methodologies to help organizations improve their experiences through the medium of mobile and web. With over a decade of project management experience, he has worked with clients such as the United States Geological Survey (USGS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United Service Organizations (USO), and Gallup to solve operational and technical problems by implementing new applications and websites to provide a better mobile and web experiences for employees and users alike.

Clinton Herget

Director of Sales Engineering

Clinton Herget is a Software Engineer with over a decade of experience in architecting, building and supporting complex web and mobile applications in the public-sector and nonprofit spaces. At Mobomo Clinton focuses on DevOps engineering and technical architecture, leading the team supporting USGS.gov and various other USGS applications. His skill-set includes Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Drupal, Amazon Web Services, Chef, Jenkins, Python, Ruby and numerous other languages and tools. Clinton is passionate about automation, scalability, continuous integration, and highly available infrastructure. He holds a B.A. in Government from the College of William & Mary and is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Lucas Riutzel

Technical Director

Lucas Riutzel is a full-stack Software Engineer with 9 years experience in planning, developing, and implementing interactive websites. He enjoys building and managing linux based server infrastructure. Lucas is proficient in numerous programming languages and is an advocate on topics of privacy and security. He has spoken previously at Drupal Camp Chicago and is a co-founder of a local Drupal group.

Miles McLean

Director of Engineering Operations

Miles McLean is a Software Engineer bringing with him over ten years of IT management and systems engineering experience. Proficient in Microsoft and Linux enterprises, Miles specializes in custom DevOps work surrounding automation, scripting, and software deployment suites across multiple platforms. He is also experienced in hardware, both physical and virtual, as well as network infrastructure, storage, database, and resource utilization management. His free time is spent exploring rivers, forests, caves, and video games around his home in Nixa, Missouri.

Kim Garcia

Director

Kimberley Garcia brings over 20 years of Project and Program Management experience supporting Federal contracts. She is experienced with meeting demanding performance standards, developing and managing performance metrics, contractor performance and remediation, as well as implementing quality and process improvements. She believes the key to success in engagements is keeping the lines of communication open.

Prior to her work at Mobomo, Mrs. Garcia provided services at Amtrak managing the deployment of their Mobile Application. She has supported large multi-site efforts at Dell Services Federal Government, Program Management Associates and Harris IT. Mrs. Garcia holds a Bachelor of Science from Syracuse University, an MBA from The George Washington University and is a PMI-certified Project Management Professional (PMP). In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, watching sports and spending time outdoors.

Alejandra Marquez

Operations Manager

Alejandra has over 10 years of experience in Human Resources. She is highly experienced in developing HR policies and processes and her expertise is IT Talent Acquisition. She holds a Bachelors degree in Human Resources, a Master degree in Sociology and different postgraduates certificates. She worked for big companies such as Verizon and AT&T and for start-ups like Network Solutions and Crossover. Ale is our People Operations Manager. She loves technology and is a fan of music..

Javier Destefanis

Sr. Project Manager

Javier Destefanis is a Project Manager at Mobomo with over 17+ years of IT and systems engineering experience. His professional career started in Teletech at the Global Development Center. He played as a technical team leader for Global IT projects across the world. He had the chance to work for the US Government for the Census 2010. Also he was honored as the Key Player of the company for his achievements as Project Manager. Also, he has been working for Fox Company going through the migration process of FOX+ channel and Foxplay products. He loves leading or being a key part of the design and management process for challenging products that require the latest technologies. His major expertise is in web and .net applications with a special focus on the database and middle-tier, as well as application’s architecture.

Pablo Marc

FrontEnd Lead

Pablo Marc is a certified Scrum developer working as a Lead Developer at Mobomo. He has over 9 years of experience in C#, JavaScript, ASP.NET, and other Microsoft technologies. He enjoys trying trending and new technologies, and pushes his team to develop applications under the guidance of the community best practices.

Brianne Wittenauer

Project Manager

Brianne has a passion for perfecting user flows and overall user experience online. Het attention to small details and the needs of her clients ensures the success of every project she is a part of. Brianne has a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University Northern Colorado, and currently lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with her husband.

Andrew Freitas

Project Manager

Andrew Freitas is a Project Manager at Mobomo.  He has experience in web programming, coding, quality assurance, advertising, marketing, video production, and video game design.

Eduardo Madariaga

Quality Assurance Lead

Eduardo is used to working in changing scenarios and devising strategies to assure the best possible outcome. He has worked alongside development teams and government officials to guarantee quality assurance standards across Latin America. An entrepreneur with strong analytics skills and good interpersonal abilities, who is always eager to learn, work in teams, coordinate activities and share acquired knowledge. He relies on good pragmatic analysis rather than forcefully implemented solutions.

Inés Sotomayor

Designer & Developer

Ines Sotomayor is an amazing front-end developer. She’s also an accomplished graphic designer with almost 15 years of experience in the digital and interactive field. She’s passionate about creating perfectly coded websites and attentive to every detail to reflect the original design. Ines taught Typography at the university for several years and still takes calligraphy classes on her free time.

Gabriel Napoli

Designer

Gabriel’s experience as a graphic designer for more than 6 years working on diverse media, such as print and animation, helps him bring that graphic knowledge to the digital realm. This makes him highly conscious about detail in terms of layout, typography and pixel-perfect designing, as well as having a concept driven work strategy. If you catch him after work, you may find him covering non-piano songs.. on a piano.

Debbie Kan

Developer

Debbie is a well-rounded web developer with a knack for tackling complex problems. She is an avid learner of the latest web standards and her expertise includes building and customizing Drupal and WordPress sites with a responsive design in mind. She is passionate about various front end technologies and strives to find the best solutions that are both user-friendly and efficient. She holds a B.S. in Information Technologies from George Mason University.

Scott Thomas

Designer

Scott Thomas is our User Experience and User Interface designer at Mobomo. He offers 4+ years of design experience in launching over 40+ digital projects across all sectors. His role is to develop user strategy and design in creating friendly tools that balance your business goals and user needs. Scott’s keen eye for design and technical background is another essential asset at Mobomo who helps turn your idea into a success.

Maite Morici

Quality Assurance

Mrs. Maite Morici has 5+ years of experience working on the technologies environment, providing QA and Technical Support. She has worked with an assortment of products, including videogames, web and mobile applications. Her responsibilities include manual testing, regressions and usability, identifying system or application problems, in order to assure the quality of a product. Maite is passionate about QA and fluid communication among teams.

Adam Frazin

Developer

Adam Frazin, Mobomo’s lead Technical Architect, boasts over 16 years of post-graduate software engineering experience. A master of Java, Ruby on Rails, C/C++, and countless other frameworks and software, Adam prides himself on making clients’ systems faster and simpler. He continually strives for quality in the development process, and deeply enjoys teaching others how to achieve the same. Adam received a B.S.E in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Gabriel Retik

Quality Assurance

Mr. Retik has 7+ years of experience providing quality assurance for a wide array of web and mobile applications. His responsibilities include usability, end-to-end, functional/non-functional, regression, and automated testing. He evaluates the quality of products through each stage of their life cycles and works with developers and project managers to address issues.

Chris Wachtman

Developer

Chris Wachtman is an experienced front-end software engineer with deep expertise in creating responsive designs that are engaging, as well as 508-compliant. Chris has led efforts in creating the front-end for www.USA.gov, www.GobiernoUSA.gov, and new.export.gov. He regularly contributes his talent to www.nasa.gov, and has created multiple front-end widgets for the new NASA website. Chris is an Android enthusiast, and holds a B.S. in Computer Science (with a Minor in Math) from Virginia Tech.

Ana Vásquez

Designer

Ana has been designing websites professionally for over 3 years. She loves design and technology, and on her free time she plays the bass and takes photographs.

Silvina Sanguinetti

Designer

Highly talented designer and illustrator, Silvina is always striving to find the latest trends in design to keep her style fresh. She’s been working on mobile design for 2 years now gaining experience rapidly. She has a passion for color which she pours completely into creating outstanding layouts and illustrations.

Joshua Lilly

Project Manager

Passionate about design, user experience/interface (UX/UI), and front-end web development, Joshua Lilly helps to create beautiful, smart products as a Mobomo Project Manager. He has a professional background in healthcare construction, and is a proponent of the Agile methodology. Joshua holds a B.A. in Architecture, and an M.S. in Building Construction Science and Management from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).

Juan Brito

Developer

Juan Brito is a full-stack software engineer, student of Argentinian Technological National University’s System Engineering program. His technical background includes .NET technologies, Javascript frameworks, HTML, CSS/Less and SQL/NoSQL databases. He also has experience developing Android applications. He enjoys working in agile focused teams, developing cross-platforms applications, and always follows the best practices for each tech stack.

Johana Bolivar

Quality Assurance

Johana has 5+ years of experience providing QA in video games, web and mobile applications. She is responsible for identifying issues and possible improvements, performing manual testing and regressions. She is passionate about delivering products with excellent performance, usability and design.

Christopher Lee

Quality Assurance

Chris has 5+ years of QA/Testing experience in web and mobile applications. He specializes in developing automated tests using Selenium and Behat. In addition to also being responsible for functional, regression, usability, and UI testing, Chris also works with project managers and developers to identify and prioritize issues and defects. Chris received his B.S. in Information Systems and Operations Management from George Mason University.

Tenko Dimanov

Developer

Tenko Dimanov is a full-stack Sr. Software Developer with over two decades of experience. Worked for variety of large enterprise grade projects for multiple government, and private structures.

Rick Harp

Developer

Rick Harp is a Software Engineer with a technical background in Object Oriented Programming and Database Administration. Rick is dedicated to self-development and constantly looking for new ways to better himself. He is currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science in Springfield, Missouri where he and his family resides. In his free time Rick enjoys hiking, sports, and game development.

Mariana Paz

Developer

Mariana has worked with digital technology for around 11 years now and has specialised in Drupal in the last 7. A problem solver, she’s good at tracking down bugs and fixing them. Linux user and enthusiast of Free Software, she is part of her local Drupal community in Buenos Aires.
Away from the keyboard, Mariana enjoys playing music, soldering circuits and being by the sea.

Lais Macaria

Designer

Lais is a junior graphic designer who is always looking to improve her skills and expand both her interests and abilities. As a pixel-perfect lover and passionate paper enthusiast, she can switch from digital design to artcraft with ease. She also enjoys teaching Media Art Studies at the university. You will often find her singing.

Jenny Cha

Developer

Jenny, a lover of all things UI and UX, is a front-end developer specializing in content management systems. She is passionate and enthusiastic about discovering solutions for the web and mobile with service design in mind and developing practical and cool websites and web applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery. All this achieved in a day’s work with, of course, a help of her little friend, caffeine. During her free time, she likes to play with her pug named Glee and post pictures of her amateur cooking on Instagram.

Rachelle Pineda

Project Manager

Rachelle Pineda has over 3+ years of experience working in a IT environment providing process improvement and QA support testing web and mobile applications. Her responsibilities include functional, regression, and UI testing in addition to creating test reports. Rachelle also works with project managers to identify issues and defects and lead user acceptance testing. She enjoys hiking, food, and spending time her friends, family, and dog named Dex.

Leah Lloyd

Developer

Leah Lloyd brings over 30 years of office experience with her, from local law office to international wall art supplier to New York City clothing production management. In her free time, she sews costumes, putters in the garden, and collects cats.

Rodrigo Naya

Developer

Rodrigo is a web and mobile developer, currently doing his best to develop Android apps. He is passionate about learning and keeping up to date with the latest technologies and coding methodologies. Enjoying what you do is a must for him, is his motto. When he is not coding, he loves to spend time his wife and son, play football with friends and visit the mountains once in a while.

Cristian Carrera

Developer

Cristian Carrera is a front-end and PHP/WordPress developer with more than 14 years of experience. He’s also a graphic designer with deep expertise in responsive design and pixel perfect products. His technical background includes PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS and MySQL. He loves the responsive web design and WordPress platform.

Pablo Villar

Developer

Pablo is an iOS developer with more than 5 years of experience in the field. He enjoys learning new stuff every day and sharing his knowledge with other fellows. He is very obsessive about clean code and good practices. In his spare time, he likes cooking and playing the piano.

Isaac Battaglia

Developer

Isaac Battaglia is a Software Engineer with over 5 years of IT management and programming experience. Isaac loves to learn and is always picking up new technical skills. He uses these skills to tackle upcoming challenges in his professional career and home lab environment. In his free time he enjoys spending time with family, playing ultimate frisbee, gaming, or just going for a run.

Carwin Young

Senior Software Engineer

Carwin Young is a Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in web development. He has experience with a variety of technologies and front-end frameworks and is always learning something new. Outside of work, Carwin enjoys rock climbing, weightlifting, and Oxford commas.

Carey Erickson

Project Manager

Carey Erickson is a content strategist managing the content migration side of the NOAA Fisheries project. She brings 16 years of experience in the public sector specializing in content strategy, content syndication, web content management, mobile strategy, social media marketing, and usability testing. With her public administration background, Carey always considers her ultimate client to be the public users of the products she develops.

Carey has proven skills in program management, event planning/training and developing products with minimal resources. She has a BA in Political Science from Colorado College, and an MA and MPA from the University of Kansas.

Lautaro Bertuzzi

Developer

Lautaro is a Software Engineer with more than six years of systems engineering experience and a MBA in progress. He has a lot of experience with a variety of back-end and front-end technologies and he is always learning new things. Lautaro is a specialist in Full-Stack development and loves the challenges. Outside of work, Lautaro enjoys doing crossfit and weightlifting, reading a lot about new technology trends and being a real nerd.

Anand Dwivedi

Project Manager

Anand Dwivedi brings 13 years of IT experience including consulting, customer account management, and recently technical product management. He enjoys building products customers love, while also driving sustainable business growth. Anand enjoys the learning and collaboration through all layers of the product life cycle. He earned his Bachelors degrees in Information Systems and Logistics & Supply Chain Management from the R.H. Smith School of Business at University of Maryland, College Park.

Mike Brizzi

Project Manager

While completing his masters, Mike developed a strong interest in all things UX. He has dabbled in freelance programming and UX research/design, and worked three years in operations in college athletics. He holds a B.A. in Professional Writing and Philosophy, and an M.S. in Information Technology. He hails from Pittsburgh, PA and enjoys cheering on any team from the City of Champions

Scot Self

Developer

Mr. Self is a Senior Development Engineer at Mobomo. During his more than 10 years of development experience, he has worked almost exclusively with Drupal, especially in the front end space. Prior to joining Mobomo, Scot was a part owner of Inner File Software, which focused on Drupal and FileMaker development, especially integrating the two. As a front-end developer and site-builder, Scot’s expertise includes theming (HTML, CSS, JS) and PHP. Besides coding, he enjoys playing bluegrass music, doing crossfit and spending time with his family (wife Daphne, daughter Juniper and son Tristan). Scot holds a B.A. in French from the University of Alabama (Roll Tide!) an M. A. in French language and civilization from NYU.

James Tawney

Developer

James Tawney is a System Administrator who supports international customers via installation, configuration and maintenance of systems hardware/software. With over 10 years of IT environment experience providing remote support to the applications utilized by the United States Department of Commerce (USDOC). He holds an A.A.S in Information Technology as well as MCITP and Network + certifications.

Michael Quicho

Senior Systems Engineer

Michael has been a Citrix Engineer and VMWare Engineer since 2005, working as a consultant for a variety of Govt. agencies throughout. At ITA he has included AWS experience into his repertoire, as well as increased his knowledge of Powershell and VB scripting.
On a sideline, Michael also likes to hang out with his wife, lift weights, go to the shooting range whenever he can, play guitar, give his five kids and two dogs a hard time, and work with Gideons International.

Natalie Robinson

Project Manager

Natalie is a Project Manager with Mobomo having over 8 years experience working in federal government contracting. She enjoys fostering collaboration and is committed to client success. Natalie earned her B.S. in Marketing from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (Go Aggies!) and MBA from the University of Maryland University College. She is PMP certified and is a Certified Scrum Master. She’s an avid runner who enjoys traveling, attending live concerts, and spending time with family and friends.

Frederick Bigden

Project Manager

He has worked in project management for the last 10 years in a number roles and industries including financial sectors, educational institutions, to large digital media companies. Received his Bachelors in Business with a Minor in Computer Information Systems from Bridgewater College in the great state of Virginia. Innovation and the possibilities available brought him to Mobomo, and he hopes to contribute those exact assets back to the company. From a more personal level, he played baseball for over 20 years, so it’s safe to say sports are a large part of his life both watching and playing. He enjoys creative aspects to life as well whether that be randomly picking up a pen to draw, or being out in his garage building something new on a whim.

Carlton Robinson

Systems Engineer

Systems and messaging Engineer with over 14 years IT experience, 10 of which as a senior exchange and MDM Engineer. Currently the office365 messaging engineer at ITA Dept. of Commerce. In his free time he likes spending time with the family including taking the kids to their soccer practices and games. Certifications include Lotus notes, Cisco and Microsoft.

Shad Allen

System Administrator

Shad is a System Administrator with Mobomo with 17 years IT consulting at the US Department of Commerce – International Trade Administration. Previous versions of Shad include Bachelor of Science – Business Administration, IT contingency planning, Lotus Notes application development and rock n’ roll mediocracy.

Adekunle Olayiwola

Network Engineer

Adekunle is a network engineer at Mobomo. He has over two years experience deploying and managing various networks for small and medium size businesses. His passion for networking and network devices has propelled him to seek a degree in electrical and computer engineering to one day stand at the forefront of internetworking technology. In his free time, he is part time IT professor and cycling enthusiast

Marshall Brown

System Administrator

Marshall Brown is a native Washingtonian who attended Rutgers University and is a veteran of the U. S. Army. He has worked in IT for over 11 years. His hobbies include PC gaming, music, art and cars

Tony Robinson

Systems Engineer

Tony is a Systems Engineer who has provided a wide range of IT services on projects in the private sector as well as contractual work for the federal government and non-profit organizations. Tony’s primary background is Windows network configuration which has allowed for hands-on experience with Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Group Policy. These skills are now being funneled into cloud development assignments for AWS and Azure. Tony enjoys exercising, spending time with family and friends, and reading (just don’t ask him the last time he picked up a book for leisure…embarrassing).

Darrell Hurston

Software Engineer

Darrell is prior service Air Force and has been serving the government in the IT field for over 20 years. He is currently working with the Mobomo System Engineering team at the Dep. Of Commerce, ITA. Darrell is a huge boxing fan and enjoys getting on the basketball court when he can.

Priya Surawkar

Systems Engineer

Priya Surawkar is a Systems Engineer with over 9 yrs of experience in Storage & backups, with integration into cloud infrastructure. Over these years Priya has worked with various vendors and variety of Storage & backup software & hardware. Her current project gave her the opportunity to explore integration with Cloud technology. In her spare time she enjoys travelling & good food with family & friends.

Keith Kelly

Lead Engineer

Keith serves as the Lead Engineer and Architect at Dept of Commerce, ITA. With over 20 years of experience in non-profit, private, and federal sectors, he is OS and platform agnostic. Solving complex problems using the best available tools and approach is what motivates him. Over his career, he has worked with large scale projects for the IRS, Bank of America, Washington Gas, Constellation Energy, and Syngenta as well as smaller, more complex projects that included travel to 14 other countries. As a previous VMWare and OpenStack platform architect, he recognized the benefits and value of cloud computing early on, and made the transition. While preferring AWS platform deployments over others, he is also experienced in Azure, VMWare, and OpenStack cloud offerings and their benefits. Certifications and training platforms include, AWS, Microsoft and Azure , ITIL, VMWare, OpenStack, Drupal, and CompTia. In his spare time, he enjoys music, cycling, golf, urban exploring, and as much volunteer work as time permits.

Anderson Taylor

QA Engineer

Anderson is a passionate QA Engineer who specializes in functional and automation testing. He enjoys improving the quality of applications through bug reporting and test case development. Another one of Anderson’s passions is linguistics of both spoken and programmatic nature. Anderson teaches himself spoken languages in his free time. He speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese and is currently studying Serbian. He hopes to use his affinity for spoken languages to teach himself how to develop web and software applications.

Sol Arabehety

Developer

Sol develops Android apps since 2012. She’s passionate about user experience and is eager to learn new technologies. She likes mobile development because it implies the perfect balance between logic and creativity. She loves what she does and is very committed to details. Also, she likes cats and enjoys painting in her spare time.

Zach Newell

Project Manager

Zach is well versed on computing technologies and communicating with impact. He combines his analytic methodologies with his passion for problem-solving to deliver solutions. He holds two degrees from the College of William and Mary including a M.S. in Business Analytics and B.B.A. in Finance. Zach is a former Division I college baseball player who enjoys watching sports in his free time.

Ken Aung

Project Manager

Ken Aung is a Project Manager leading complex mobile, web, and cloud infrastructure development for Mobomo’s commercial practice. Ken has over 10 years of experience in working in small to large enterprise environments as a SQL Server Admin, Production Server Admin, Deployments, and managing web and mobile dev projects. Prior to joining Mobomo, Ken served as a Project Manager with a focus on mobile iOS and Android development, healthcare, data analytics, and E-commerce.

Peter Hartman

QA Engineer

Peter is a QA Engineer with over 8 years of IT experience. Learning new things and improving efficiency has been a lifelong goal for Peter. When it is time to play, you can find him on his bike or a hiking trail.

Iván Duarte

Drupal Engineer

Ivan Duarte is an Acquia certified developer with 10 years of web development and 7 years of Drupal experience. He has both front and backend development skills. He contributed to drupal.org and likes to be involved with the Drupal community in Latin America. He likes to spend time with his family.

Scott Richardson

Software Engineer

Scott is a Software Engineer bringing with him years of IT management and systems engineering experience. He is proficient in Microsoft enterprises. Scott specializes in custom DevOps work surrounding automation, scripting, and data migration across platforms. He is also experienced in hardware, both physical and virtual, as well as network infrastructure, storage, database, and resource utilization management. His free time is spent with his family, gardening, and going to soccer games at his home in Springfield, Mo.

Shadia Mansour

Project Manager

Shadia has been a project manager for about 10 years. She initially started in the government subcontracting industry where she directly supported clients from the Department of Navy. She transitioned into the tech industry working for Debug Academy managing several different web development projects. She aims to create impactful web experiences, help clients overcome challenges, and not only meet client expectations, but exceed them. She enjoys spending time with her friends and family!

Jason Murray

Software Engineer

Jason has been working as a Web Developer since 2005. In late 2009, Jason was introduced to Drupal for the first time and has been working with it ever since, recently achieving his Acquia Certified Developer certification for Drupal 8. He has a diverse background including nearly 10 years working as a Nuclear Power Operator in the U.S. Navy’s Submarine forces. He lives and works from his home in rural northern New York.

Stephen Armijo

Project Manager

Stephen is a project manager who has gained extensive Agile/Scrum experience working for companies like Rally Software and Scaled Agile Inc. He also has dev experience with his last role being a Drupal front-end web developer. He graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a B.A. in Economics. In his free time he has a passion for fast cars, spends time with his family, and nerds out to anything Star Wars.

Scott Stevens

Software Engineer

Scott is a full stack software developer with experience in many technology stacks including .Net, Python, Java, NoSql databases, etc., and has a passion for building applications running in the cloud. He graduated from Missouri State University with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics. In his free time, Scott loves to spend time with his family, watch Chiefs football games, and do anything to get outdoors.

Salim Chemes

Software Engineer

Salim Chemes is a Software Engineer with more than 9 years working with Microsoft technologies including c#, asp.net, .net core and azure. He graduated as Systems Engineer from the Technological National University. He likes develop mobile and web applications following best practices and technology trends In his free time, he enjoys playing Hockey.

Michel Adriel

Software Engineer

I’m a software engineer focused in .NET technologies, mainly in integrations, cloud computing, and full-stack web development. I have a robust experience working with the financial sector and providing consulting services. I keep myself continuously learning, trying to keep up with the latest trends and always willing to grow up as a professional

Ariel Kanelson

Drupal Engineer

Ariel Kanelson brings over 20 years of experience in diverse IT industry, combining skills in software engineering, project management, and product development. Ariel was one of the first developers in joining MercadoLibre.com in 1998 and building the launch version in 1999. He performed as a CTO for 10 years on a local private university. Since 2012, he specialized in Drupal development and site-building. He is also a Certified Scrum Master.

Fabián Sierra

Software Engineer

Fabian Sierra is a software engineer with more than 6 years of web development mostly in Drupal. He likes to learn about new things in the development world and learning a bit of everything.
He wants to be involved with the Drupal community, events, share knowledge and experiences. He likes to spend time with family and friends, old Simpsons episodes, video games and watch sports.

Aldana Fiandrino

Visual Designer

Aldana is a Senior Visual Designer with a wide range of expertise in UI and UX Design. She love to create clean and simple interfaces, with good eye for details, definitely love typography, always being innovative and creative. She has a degree in Graphic Design and is a yoga teacher, also enjoy to travel and take pictures.

Michael Johnston

QA Engineer

Michael is a QA Engineer at Mobomo. One of his passions is physical and cultural geography, leading him to earn his BS in Geography from Texas State University. He is also passionate about learning to use new software and keeping up to date with new technologies. During his free time you can find him on the trails around Washington D.C. with his husband and two dogs.

Mike Redman

Technical Architect

Mike Redman is a Technical Architect with experience using the .NET framework, ERP systems, data warehousing and business intelligence. Mike has a passion for learning new technologies in order to come up with creative solutions. He enjoys spending time with his family, sports, and video games in his free time.

Jonah Andriani

UI/UX Designer

Jonah has a background in graphic design and has worked in that field for over 10 years. He has always had a passion for design and technology and learning more about their impact on the world. Thus, he made a transition into UX Design to help better connect people to brands and experiences. Outside of work, he does photography as a side gig and enjoys capturing the world through a lens. When free, he enjoys spending time with family.

Owen Morrill

Software Engineer

Owen Morrill is a Software Engineer with over 6 years of programming and technical writing experience. He has experience with large-scale CMS development with government and higher education. In his spare time, he enjoys going hunting, fishing, and spending time with his family

Javier Acrich

Software Engineer

Javier is a passionate software engineer with more than 10 years of experience.
Although he currently lives in Buenos Aires, he was born in Rosario.
He is the proud dad of Dante and also a crypto geek and btc maximalist.
He likes to ride his bike and have family time whenever possible.

Jeff Beagley

Software Engineer

Jeff Beagley is an DevOps Engineer with a Software background in Logistics, Petroleum, and Military applications. With a wide ranging background and a lifelong journey in Software Development, he brings automation and efficiency to every step in engineering, releasing, and maintaining software. His experience brings knowledge in; front end frameworks including jQuery, and VueJS, back-end technologies that run on NodeJS, and PHP, infrastructure systems including Docker, Kubernetes, and Microservices, Database Software including Microsoft SQL, MySql, Redis, MongoDB, Apache Kafka, and Elasticsearch. Jeff is passionate about learning new concepts, teaching others, and building applications/architectures at scale.

Victoria Bryan

Project Manager

Victoria Bryan is a Project Manager at Mobomo with over 8 years of of project management experience. Victoria really enjoys the people aspect of managing projects and building relationships with people wherever she goes. In addition to being PMP certified, Victoria has a BA in Psychology and a MA in Forensic and Legal Psychology.

When not hard at work, Victoria enjoys Mediterranean food, traveling, good wine, true crime shows, and long intellectual conversations with her dog.

Tyler Fridley

Software Engineer

Tyler is a Junior Software Engineer with experience in front-end and back-end languages including Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Ember, and React. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, cycling, reading, and watching hockey.

Jacob Yeager

Drupal Engineer

Jacob is a PHP/Drupal developer with more than a decade of experience crafting engaging user experiences and highly interactive websites. He specializes in what makes websites tick, building the groundwork and functionality for beautiful designs–which he often also implements. His passion is clean code, which means that things don’t break–but if they do, they are easy to diagnose and fix. When not coding, Jacob loves nothing more than to sit around a table with friends and play board games for hours on end.

Jason Amschler

Software Engineer

Jason is a person who has a passion for anything technology related. He has broad experience as a System Administrator, Business Analyst, Software Developer, and a IT Manager supporting global operations with certifications and experience in AWS. Jason graduated from Drury University with a degree in Computer Information Systems and went right to work with technology. He assisted with the development of a new product with a unique ability to dynamically build a mesh network on the fly, authoring and co-patenting the technology. In his free time, he enjoys his family and a challenging game of Mario Kart, and when he’s disconnected you can find him at the dirt track watching cars go in circles.

James Boardman

Business Analyst

James has 2+ years experience in a SaaS environment providing sales and operational assistance. If he is not spending time with family, you can find him on the golf course, watching hockey, or exploring the outdoors!

Franco Battista

Software Engineer

I am a software engineer with experience in the complete development of software life cycle since 2011. Experienced with technologies such as .Net, Angular, C #, JavaScript and SQL. I am a positive person who enjoys working with people. Always looking to learn new things. In my free time I like to play music and football, go out with friends and do some workout.

Nacho Rego

QA Engineer

QA Automation and Python lover. Always interested in new technologies and learning new stuff. Amateur chef, tea big fan and part-time traveler.

Lisa Mayo

Developer

Lisa is a Front End Drupal Developer with extensive experience in web development. A majority of her career has been spent developing large-scale, consumer-facing websites using both proprietary and open-source Content Management Systems. Lisa prides herself on delivering pixel-perfect websites and loves learning about all things css. In her spare time she enjoys exercising, baking, stand-up comedy and cheering on the Washington Nationals with her family.

Walter Cerna

Designer

Walter brings over 5 years of experience in the UI & UX design and development fields. He rounds out his skill set with a background in animation, print and digital design. He is an artist who is always learning and keeping up-to-date with the web and design industries. Walter uses his background skills to enhance his approach to user interface & experience designs. He has a passion for designing exciting, out-of the-norm web and app experiences. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Art Institute of Washington in 2012 with a degree in Web Design and Interactive Media. When not solving complex design problems you can find him spending time with family, playing video games, and going to the movies.

Karlie Leung

Corporate Administrator

Karlie has extensive experience in event management, public relations, and social media marketing. She oversees the internal and external communications and operational activities of Mobomo. She is committed to raising awareness of the struggles and barriers affecting minorities in the US. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Criminology from the Pennsylvania State University and her Master of Arts in Anthropology from the George Washington University.

Yim Pisith

Software Engineer

Pisith is a Software Engineer with over 5 years of experience with various projects from non-profit to enterprise CMS applications. In his spare time, he enjoys playing soccer, kayaking, and exploring places he’s never been before.

Luciano Gómez

Developer

Proactive and always willing to learn new stuff. I consider myself a quick learner and a teamwork enthusiast who loves
to interact with different persons, roles, departments.
I’m a creative guy who will always look for a way to improve and add quality to my outputs… keep moving and
innovate!
I’m motivated about self-management, technology trends and like to lead teams, being a bridge between ideas, people
and organizations. Technology & Music are a must in my daily agenda.

Hernán Nadotti

Developer

I’m a Front-End Developer with 10 years of experience in Javascript and its framework’s ecosystem. Worked with some technologies like Angular, Knockout, Rivets.js, Vue.js, etc. I’m a guy who likes to work in competitive teams keeping an eye on new technologies. I’m also Pietro’s dad and in my spare time I enjoy to ride my motorcycle. I love Cuban and Brazilian music.

Andrés Vega

Developer

Andrés Vega is a full-stack software developer with more than 12 years of experience in several languages and frameworks, focused in .Net technologies, javascript and CSS.
He graduated as Systems Analyst from the Technological National University, he is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist and Certified Scrum Master. He is passionate about learning new technologies, facing new challenges and working with people as a team.
In his spare time, he enjoys cycling, spending time with his family and traveling.