LUNA'S MANAGEMENT TEAM

Shad Vick - Founder/CEO

Shad Vick was raised in the Boston, Massachusetts area before attending universities in Idaho and Utah. He started creating web sites in the late '90s when the internet was in its infancy. His passion for search engine optimization (SEO) is what initiated building a full service web and marketing agency.

Shad earned his B.S. in Business Managment at the University of Phoenix. While attending school he gained valuable automation, reporting and data mining skills while supporting various departments in the credit card financial and call center industry. After honing skills in sales at Qwest, he led successful teams in operations at San Francisco based Providian Financial and Compucredit Corp. based out of Atlanta. He is a proud father of 5, an Eagle Scout and former LDS missionary having served in Guatemala for 2 years.

Jeff Nicholson - Creative Director

Jeff began working as a graphic designer while attending Oklahoma Christian University. After graduating with a bachelors degree in Advertising Design / Graphic Design, Jeff moved to Salt Lake City where he has pursued a career in graphic design and front-end web development. Since graduation Jeff has designed websites for many of the major real estate brokerages in the United States, including names like Prudential, Century 21, RE/MAX, and Keller Williams. Jeff is a self described "perpetual student"; he is always excited to learn new things, and is willing to push Web Standards every chance he gets.

Jeff leads the design team and manages front end web development projects as well as print and brand identity. His skills in flash, xhtml/css and high end web design are a assetts to the team.

Lara Tallman - Marketing Director

Lara, originally from Southern California, graduated from La Sierra University where she studied design and advertising communication.  After a few years of agency work and consulting, Lara spent 7 years heading up the marketing department for Loma Linda University Medical Center hospitals and then developed her own successful medical and marketing companies.

Lara is a huge fan of Apple and Adobe technology, and remembers starting her career on the early Macs with tiny 6-inch screens—thankfully, today she can pursue her love of marketing and design on a much larger screen.

Two years ago Lara and her two sons relocated to Salt Lake City, where before joining LunaWebs she worked as a marketing and web design consultant.  In her free time Lara manages a motorsports team based in Salt Lake and drives in the Grand-am series.

Mike Vandenberghe - IT Director/Web Engineer

Mike has the ability to solve any complex problem and feels fine being labeled a "computer geek". He likes challenges that push the envelope of web application development.

Mike has been doing professional web development since 2001. He got started with internet technology at a very young age, as the internet was still becoming the phenomenon that it is today. Mike takes a ground-up organizational approach to web application development starting with a clean and sophisticated data model, following up with a simple, easy-to-use and attractive user interface. He maintains an up-to-date knowledge of web technology trends.

After becoming proficient with Perl and PHP, the object oriented paradigm revolutionized the way he works. Focusing on recent trends like /AJAX/ and /Web 2.0/ has been enlightening. By mastering these technologies early, he has been able to create amazing sites with bleeding edge technology, and the crossover to the traditional methods he uses like PHP has been tremendously beneficial to my work.

Scott Eggleston - Multi-Media Director

Scott has always been a fan of the big screen.  He grew up in a theater family and was always into acting, but switched over to film making when he saw how engaging it was to control the end result of the projects he worked on. He has always enjoyed visual storytelling and is a big fan of Alfred Hitchcock and Rod Serling (creator of the Twilight Zone).

Scott is a self taught film maker that has experience in the TV industry as well as making his own films. He studied film at the University of Utah and worked as a studio tech at Utah’s NBC affiliate KSL 5 for 12 years.  Scott is a big believer in the emergence of film making and the internet. Scott has extensive experience in directing, camera operation, editing, sound recording, audio mixing, writing, producing and DVD authoring.

Jill Hartsen - Web Designer

Jill discovered her passion for web design while attending Salt Lake's Westminster College. After graduating with a degree in Justice Studies, she decided to make a change and pursue an education in web development so she could turn her hobby into a career. She enjoys designing and coding web pages and challenging herself with new projects. She is constantly learning and interested in the ways that varying web programming languages can be used together to create dynamic and enjoyable sites.

Jill is a technology gadget geek and loves being a part of the cutting edge. She has lived in Salt Lake City for six years.

Brody Carlson - Web Application Developer

Brody began working as a web developer soon after graduating Brigham Young University Idaho. He has always had interests in new cutting edge website development. Over the past few years, he has increased his knowledge of dynamic software, content management systems, dynamic sites, and applications. With a strong academic background in business and information systems, he applies a combination of knowledge and experience to this creative development industry. He is currently working on improving the scope of Lunawebs.com with his experience in search engine optimization.

Brody has lived in Utah and Idaho for most of his life. He served as a LDS missionary in Argentina for 2 years.