Tim spent his formative years as a DJ/VJ and producing educational television before discovering the power of a good rollover state. Since then, he has provided creative and interactive media services to an extensive client list. He has held positions on the board of the Association for Multimedia Communications, the Advisory Committees of the Illinois Institute of Art's Animation and Interactive Media Departments, and the Interactive Media Department of Columbia College. Tim is the author of Managing Interactive Media Projects, an interactive media process guide from Delmar-Cengage Learning and Return on Engagement: Content, Strategy and Design Techniques for Digital Marketing from Focal Press.

James Johnston loves music and sushi so much it hurts, but also really enjoys the oft-underrated moment of crossing items off his to-do list and is always appreciative of a job well done. He excels at keeping track of details, keeping people happy, and keeping the rest of his compatriots in line, all of which happen to be great skills if you're a project manager or the leader of a band. Incidentally, James is both. He has worked his way into a position of responsibility everywhere he has been, from a nineteen year old talent relations and production assistant at MTV in New York, to manager of a popular Chicago recording studio at 26, and now project manager at Mightybytes. He also has significant audio and music production knowledge, which comes in handy in his role as lead singer for the band Bumpus.

Travis Chandler plays music, makes movies and works at Mightybytes, all of which he enjoys thoroughly. After nearly a decade of activity in the local music scene, he returned to school and graduated with honors from DePaul University's Digital Cinema program, which he still remembers in a soft-focus-misty-eyed-flashback-montage kind of way.

Thinking he was fully prepared by his schooling for any digital media challenge, Travis marched over to Mightybytes in late 2006 and has been learning completely new things nearly every day since. Despite the practical and technical challenges, his future plans include robot and zombie-assisted world domination. Also, Mightybytes factors in there as well.

Joy Burke has come a long way since her days making burgers at the Steak-n-Shake in Effingham, Illinois. She has traded burgers for beziers and now spends most of her time making the world a more beautiful place one pixel at a time. Joy is a 2007 graduate of the Visual Communications program at the Illinois Institute of Art where she won Best in Show for Innovative Design on her portfolio. When not creating award-winning design work, Joy likes to play soccer and piano, nurture her beta fish, and work the runway as a house model for Sassoon.

As a developer and user experience designer at Mightybytes, Tai is constantly striving for HTML/CSS perfection and usability nirvana. His CMS of choice is ExpressionEngine, his Javascript library of choice is JQuery, and his pie of choice is Dutch Apple.

When he's not crafting websites at Mightybytes, he's adapting and performing stories written by children, with Barrel of Monkeys.

As a child, Steve had a love of Legos and mastery of mental multiplication that exceeded expectations. He left the Legos at his parent's place and the arithmetic abandoned him in a Catholic classroom. What remained was a robust regard for ratiocination. Upon completing college, he proceeded to profit from programming PHP and seemed destined to discover Drupal. When not laboring with the LAMP stack, Steve cycles along Lake Michigan and makes the most of his theatrical training. He also adores alliteration.

Stacy Jones Sutton is an interactive marketing consultant and SEO content developer who also spends time in North Carolina wrangling chickens out of her yard when not working on digital marketing, social media, business development and other creative projects in media, publishing, and fiction writing. With experience in online marketing since 1997, Stacy's partnerships and clients have included online learning portals, newspapers, textbook and supplemental publishers, children’s book publishers, and more. Having worked for advertising and marketing agencies, as well as in corporate communications for web and digital media, her concentration for Mightybytes is on creating strategic, targeted, content-driven business and marketing solutions that yield measurable results. 

Alesia brings an extensive skill set of interactive technology product development from working with a major textbook publisher for five years, where she partnered with Mightybytes as a client on many projects. Her products are in many classrooms drilling Social Studies lessons into the heads of 9th graders. As a result, her knowledge of world history makes her an excellent candidate for trivia games, as well as creating user-friendly web products for youth and adults. Previously, Alesia put her entrepreneurial talents to work by operating a successful consulting business for ten years. For corporate clients ranging from Motorola to Walgreens and 3Com, she managed the creation of eLearning modules across a broad range of business applications. Alesia’s multi-tasking expertise includes project scheduling, client relations, and conference calls, sometimes even whilst reading a bedtime story to her three year old. 

For three years, Thon has been living in Chicago with his cat Beans, programming ActionScript and developing Flash websites and interactive programs. Upon graduating from Syracuse University with a Master's in Video Art, Thon moved to Chicago and began teaching Flash at Digital Boot Camp. He is currently working on learning iPhone application development and finding Chicago's best pizza.