Meet the Team
# We love working together to help you
PortlandLabs is People.
Since the 1980's Franz has been involved with digital communication, multimedia, information architecture, and building stuff.
Franz has been involved in every angle of web development; from hourly production work to managing multi-million dollar projects. He's worked for brands including Intel, Nike, Microsoft, and the AdCouncil. His work was nominated for a People's Choice Webby award in 2005.
He's passionate about using technology to bring people closer together.
Andrew has built hundreds upon hundreds of websites using a wide range of technologies since he started working in the late 90's. He has become adept at PHP, MySQL, and a collection of modern frameworks. Today his work on concrete5 speaks for itself.
While Andrew knows what it takes to launch websites on time and under budget, he prefers writing, coordinating and shipping software applications that grow over time. Andrew is happy when he has achieved that perfect balance of what a web developer wants and what a client needs.
This guy is very good with computers. He once built an app that tracked US, EU, and Russian satellites in real time showing their position around a 3D globe. It took him two weeks.
Korvin is passionate about open source. He's leading local PHP meetups in Portland, as well as being active in the PHP Framework Interoperability Group.
Korvin's also deeply curious about security, developer operations, and the process that goes into complex systems behaving properly.
Evan knows how websites and web projects work. He cut his teeth as a production programmer, bedazzling clients with complex HTML5 parallax based fancy pants HTML chops. He's done his share of PHP working with different content management systems.
Today Evan uses that background in "how it works" to make sure "things get done." With a focus on process automation, Evan is passionately driving projects forward at PortlandLabs.
With experience in aerospace, security, engineering, QA, networks, and databases, Lisa is an amazing enterprise level CISO.
As a former Air Force Captain, Lisa has led large teams and delivered cross departmental buy-in and collaboration required to build strong information security, risk, cyber resilience, incident, privacy, vulnerability management, and compliance programs from the ground up.
With a PhD in Applied Linguistics and a strong background in data analytics, Myq brings a wealth of inquisitive energy to the table. He sinks his teeth into problems and is only satisfied with a full understanding of the system. He's always curious, interested in technology, education, languages and data.
Senior IT / DevOps Engineer with 20+ years of diverse experience. Able to effectively manage large projects, design a wide variety of technical solutions, and implement complex services with a proven record of success. Passionate about learning new technologies and staying on top of industry trends, with a deeply ingrained focus on security and adherence to best practices.
Ironically, Jess started her career in nursing, but her curiosity and knack for problem-solving led her down the tech rabbit hole, and the rest, as they say, is history! Jess has always been a passionate contributor to open-source software. Her journey into tech began when she stumbled upon a FOSS CMS after being asked to develop a website.
When she's not diving deep into geeky projects (both professionally and personally), you can catch her on the pickleball court or softball diamond, embracing her competitive side.