LUNA'S 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. Prior he worked for 10 years in the credit card financial industry. He was an operations manager for Providian Financial based in San Francisco and Compucredit Corp. out of Atlanta. He is an Eagle Scout and served as an LDS missionary in Guatemala for 2 years.

Jeff Nicholson - Creative Director

Jeff Nicholson 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 our design team and manages front end web development projects as well as print and identity tasks. His skills in flash, xhtml/css and high end web design are a tremendous assett to the team.

Mike Vandenberghe - IT Director/Web Engineer

Mike has the ability to solve any complex problem by thinking outside the box. 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.

Pam Okumura - Business Development/Client Relations

Pam has been in business development for over 10 years. As past director of sales and marketing for a major online retailer – she initiated new account growth revenues by 200%  Pam also boosted web traffic there by over 100%.  Pam has an innate ability to foresee challenges before they become a stumbling block.

Pam has a passion for keeping projects and accounts running smoothly.  She ensures that timelines are communicated clearly and deadlines are met.  She is extremely detail oriented and makes sure no one on the team misses a beat. 

In addition to tracking timelines and deliverables, Pam trains new employees in team project processes and basic methodologies.  She is one of the first points of contact when a new project starts ensuring data is accurate and up to date.

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 Sterling (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.

Marshall Snedaker - Marketing/Business Development

Marshall is at the forefront of the companies marketing efforts. He is always looking at industry trends to determine whether Luna is staying abreast of the ever changing online market. He spearheads new business development and online marketing efforts.

Sean Hakes - Director of Online Marketing

Sean was the previous founder of Urban Voice Media. He drove the company to a successful brand in both the Colorado and Arizona markets as a leader in online marketing and search engine optimization. His ultimate goal was to poise the company for an acquisition merger of which he was successful this year.

He joins LunaWebs not only as a previous php web developer but as the company's key player in assisting clients in online lead generations.

Sean manages the Denver, Colorado office in all website design operations.

James Frasca - Open Source Developer

James is a true guru when it comes to programming - particularly developing in PHP/My SQL. James has been a programmer and student of various web and application languages for the past 15 years. In the past 5 years he has been coding in PHP using My SQL as the back end web database.

James has been instrumental in implementing packaged applications to enhance the web users experience. In particular he recently assisted the company in rolling out KEYSEM™ - their Keyword Search Engine Marketing application which allows meticulous statistical tracking of multiple domains. This tool displays visits by user, bot and other detailed analyses from an easy to use and flexible interface.

In addition, he is the sole author of SheerDEV™ a module based Content Management System that allows non-programmer users the ability to create, update and maintain web sites.

Quantal Langford - Graphic Designer/HTML Coder

Quantal is a graphic designer/ illustrator that's been freelancing for several years. He assists in the management and creation of illustration at a large newspaper agency that's read weekly in over 22,000 homes. He has helped with the redesign of several web sites and is working on various print and web projects.

Quantal has advanced knowledge in Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Quark, Corel Draw, Freehand, ImageReady, Acrobat, and Dreamweaver.