Credits

Jeff Moriarty – Founder

Jeff is the Director of Social Media Strategy at Sitewire, an interactive design agency in Tempe. His driving interest is creating things, which can be a bit of a messy process at times.

He loves all the arts, but the only one in which he seems to be blessed with any talent is writing. He is an advocate and tinkerer in many forms of Social Media, and a strong believer in using it to bring communities and people together.

Brian Carson – Speaker Coach and Audio/Video Sprite

Honored as Volunteer Spirit Award Winner for 2008 by The Phoenix Business Journal, Brian Carson believes that you can accomplish anything in life as long as you’re prepared to serve others first. He is exercising that belief as our Speaker Coach for Ignite Phoenix. When Brian is not being distracted with his Video Production Company, teaching as a Professional Speaking Coach, or by his day job as a Program Manager at Intel Corporation, he enjoys working with his wife Linda to raise two ordinary kids who are accomplishing extraordinary things.

Alan Dayley – Smoother of Bumps

Alan aspires to be an atypical father, husband and software engineer. Be careful about bringing up terms like “Scrum,” “Agile Development” or “Linux” because his passion might come out! The Dayley Agile blog chronicles his agile development experiences. Passion for the wonders of human creativity and interaction fuel his drive to support community groups like Ignite Phoenix.

Oden Hughes – Project Manager

Oden is your average amiable IT manager, wrestling requirements, timelines and unruly resources into manageable mild mannered projects. Enthusiastic about providing a happy and fulfilling workplace, she delights in lightening the workday with singalongs, emotional intelligence trainings, outdoor meetings and the occasional laser tag battle. When not in a nearby coffee shop fueling her caffeine addiction, she can often be found writing in a local book store or working on projects for one of the many community groups she supports.

Jana Knapp - Sponsor Wrangler

Jana Knapp has been working with nonprofit organizations in the valley since 1999. With a BA in Theatre Management and a MA in Organizational Management, she’s well equipped to help creative individuals and organizations achieve their goals. She specializes in herding (creatives, small children and Clumber spaniels) and in making things better (more formally know as process development and improvement). Her driving belief that Phoenix can be better is what brought her to Ignite.

Michael Barber – Program Manager

Michael Barber is a first generation American who ventured to the deserts of Arizona to attend the University of Arizona. After graduating from UA, he began a career working for some of Arizona’s most admired digital marketing agencies including Mighty Interactive, Sitewire and Nomadic Agency. He blogs about life and digital marketing at his website. Two things about him that you should know. He loves Rainbow sandals and gives great hugs.

Jennifer Maggiore – PR Maven

Jenn Maggiore is President & CEO of MCM, founded in 2005, a multimedia marketing company specializing in Social Media. She is one of the 2009 Arizona Republic Top 35 Women Entrepreneurs Under 35, a co-host of Locals Only: Phoenix and co-founder of Social Media In A Carton. She most enjoys kicking back with her husband and 3-year old son, and is excited to support Ignite! Follow her at @jenn_ex.

Fred von Graf – Web3Maven and Video Pusher

Fred is a principle driven person, with diverse interests in business, communications and technology. He melds his executive, people and project management background with 15 years of enterprise technology experience and a passion for the social to deliver real and attainable actions and strategies for businesses, organizations and individuals to use in engaging their communities and building stronger relationships.

Fred founded SocialMediaAZ.org, the driving force behind the premier Social Media for Business event in Arizona. He is active with several organizations including being on the board of the Business Marketing Association, ImprovAZ, Project Management Professionals, Western Pyrotechnics Association and the Arizona Interactive Marketers Association.

Fred is also a managing partner with Web3Mavens, LLC. a company specializing in helping businesses use new technologies and digital marketing to maximize returns.

Matthew Petro – Blogmaster and Social Media Geek

Matthew is a many-talented technogeek, developing enterprise Java applications by day and working in all things social media the rest of the time. He handles the Twitter and Facebook page for Ignite Phoenix and is responsible for most of the eloquent and witty posts on the Ignite blog.

Other than technology and social media, Matthew’s third passion is coffee in all its many-splendored forms. Not only does he frequent the best coffee shops in the Valley, but he also brews his own from locally roasted beans. He’s so passionate about coffee that he was moved to create an Ignite presentation about making better coffee in the office.

He loves both coffee and social media for the amazing and often mysterious ways in which they can bring people together, build community and make Phoenix a better place to live. His latest thoughts on that and many other things can be found on Twitter and at his blog.

Matthew first was introduced to Ignite Phoenix at #2 and hasn’t missed one since. He’s volunteered for Ignite Phoenix #4 and #5, presented at #6 and followed that up by joining the team.

Andy Woodward – Stage Manager and Presenter Herder

During Ignite Phoenix events, Andy is the king of backstage. In addition to coordinating all of the behind-the-scenes activity, he ensures that the speakers are in place and ready to go. This requires a tremendous amount of skill, along with the ability to use judo moves to take down presenters attempting to flee in fear before they go on stage.

In his spare time, Andy enjoys herding animals which are easier than Ignite presenters to deal with, particularly wildebeest and cats.

Brandon Franklin – Ticketing Coordinator

Brandon, a software engineer by day, moved around a lot before moving to Phoenix–the first place where he really felt at home, and became a passionate participant in the local creative and technology scene.

After a presentation at Ignite Phoenix #4 resulted the deeply transformative introduction of taiko drumming into Brandon’s life, he decided to “give back” to Ignite, and immediately volunteered to be a part of the Ignite team.

Mark Dudlik – T-Shirt Designer

Mark hates bios. So the Ignite team has taken upon themselves to make sure you know he’s the guy behind the designs on the highly coveted, limited edition t-shirts produced for Ignite Phoenix #1 through #6. Mark can also be found organizing a “little” conference called Phoenix Design Week or doing great work with Dojo Collective and Sprawl.

Chuck Reynolds – Website Maintenance

Chuck Reynolds handles Web strategy at rYnoweb in Phoenix, AZ. He specializes in the WordPress CMS platform, SEO, Internet Marketing and helps professionals and businesses with local search marketing and reputation management through social media.

Greg Leff – Backstage Heavy

Greg tends to gravitate towards new technology and gadgets and appreciates well conceived and implemented designs. He could never give up his family – everything else in the world is expendable – including all “stuff”, laptops, TV’s, gadgets, etc. It would be difficult to give up “things”, but they would be meaningless without people to share them. When it’s all said and done he wants to be remembered as a loving husband and father, and a great friend.

Roger Williams – Organizer and Satellite Location Coordinator

Roger is a Consultant for SEO.com, the Search Engine Optimization company that you should be talking to. He has been involved in Internet Marketing for over 10 years and loves to talk about what you are working on.

Under the guise of wanting to escape Phoenix, Roger is continuously amazed at how much this bird of fire has to offer. If he doesn’t have a beer in his hand you should think of getting him something good like Guinness, Fat Tire, or any of the Dogfish Heads.

Jack Smith – After Party Hunter

Jack is the over-caffeinated creator of The Social Latte, a social media marketing and web development firm founded in 2006. He’s always been passionate about technology, marketing and people and is constantly working on new ways to put them together to help other business owners.

Since moving from Seattle to Phoenix in 2001, Jack has finally dried out and is happy to call Tempe home. When not swilling coffee and talking social media, he can be found on his boat with his dog Zorro, training for his next triathlon or chasing plastic on the ultimate frisbee field.

Katie Charland – PR

Katie has run the full gamut of Ignite involvement – from attending #3, speaking at #4, volunteering as a runner at #5 and assisting with press for #6. When not hustling for Ignite, she works for Raising Arizona Kids magazine as the Community Relations Manager, and volunteers as the Community Outreach Manager for Phoenix Comicon. You can also find her on Twitter.

Tomas Carrillo – Presentation Czar Emeritus

Tomas Carrillo is a lighthearted Arizona native and founder of The Closet Entrepreneur, a blog aimed at helping entrepreneurs get off their feet. He graduated from Arizona State with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, then pursued a career with Intel as a Systems Validation Engineer and Process Engineer. He left Intel after 8 great years to pursue his own green startup which is scheduled to launch at the beginning of 2009.

Charlene Kingston – Social Media and Community Outreach

Charlene is an information strategist who helps companies integrate software into the workplace through software user assistance tools like online help, training programs, and documentation. When she isn’t writing or engaging in social media, Charlene is usually working in her art studio, traveling, or planning her next travel adventure.

Clintus McGintus – Video

Clintus is a video blogger and a dad. He’s been working with digital video for almost 10 years now and has worked in all forms of the medium. For the past two years Clintus has been addicted to social media and the people involved with it. He maintains a video blog at I Do It Digital where he shares thoughts & ideas, moments with his kids, and rants about things that bother him.