Meet the Team

Alex Tokar

alext [at] webcollective.coop

Programmer & Creative Influence, Founding Owner

Alex has over ten years experience designing and implementing database-driven web applications.  He is Web Collective's lead programmer on the rapid application development framework Django.  Alex brings business acumen and a real-world sensibility around priorities to Web Collective projects.  A broad background of systems deployments and strong ability with our application development tools, Python and Django, enable Alex to understand whole projects quickly and accurately.  Alex has excellent communications and interpersonal skills which enable him to communicate design and development issues to everyone from the most seasoned programmer to the least technical user.

Bryan Wilson

bryanw [at] webcollective.coop

http://linkedin.com/in/bryanwilsonseattle

Programmer, Graphic Designer, Founding Owner

I'm an experienced and creative web developer, information designer, graphic designer, and entrepreneur.

I'm seeking:

• Plone and Python development contract work;
• graphic and information design contract work;
• working/learning/internship opportunities putting my design and technological skills to use in the field of interpretive and exhibit design for museums, parks, public and touristic projects.

I'm looking to put my skills and experience to use to:

• create beautiful and compelling physical and digital 'environments', stories, and objects;
• build understanding of the earth and its places and cultures;
• explore new possibilities;
• bring joy, humor, and insight to my work; and
• to support the transformation toward a more just and sustainable society.

I'm currently wrapping up a five year project of creating and working as a member of Web Collective, an employee cooperative web development firm focused on serving sustainability-minded clients with content management systems, custom web applications, and design. Previously I worked in ecotourism marketing and interpretive planning as the owner of a small consulting business. I'd like to further my skills in design for interpretation and exhibits and to bring my technical abilities for digital design to serve projects and organizations in line with my values.

Please contact me for work, collaboration, and learning opportunities!

photo of Bryan by Meenu Bhardwaj

Fulvio Casali

fulvioc [at] webcollective.coop

Activist Software Engineer, Owner

Fulvio has more than fifteen years of software development experience.  Starting on numerical simulations in theoretical physics research using parallel processing algorithms, he later spent five years developing and testing Windows client software, and launched several versions of Internet Explorer and Windows desktop components.  Later he gained his experience in web development at Amazon.com, where over four years he implemented components of the Amazon retail website payment pipeline, as well as web interfaces for sales metrics analysis, among other projects.  Since joining Web Collective In 2008 as member owner, he has developed numerous Plone-based Web Content Management Systems, administered the company's IT infrastructure systems, and managed its finances.  He is experienced developing for other major open source packages such as WordPress, TWiki and MediaWiki.

From 2006 to 2011, he has also acted as IT Director for the non-profit grassroots community organization Sustainable Ballard. In 2010 he co-founded Salish Sea Trading Cooperative, a non-profit striving to revive sail-based transport in Puget Sound and the Pacific Northwest.  Italian and German are his native languages, but he is also fluent in English and Spanish.

Fulvio received his M.Sc. in Physics (Diplom-Physiker) from Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany, and a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Kansas State University, where he also studied and performed original research in theoretical physics.

Melody Winkle

melodyw [at] webcollective.coop

Project Management, Support, Owner

Melody began building and managing Web sites in 1994.  Her experience  and interest center around bringing together people and information.

After obtaining a degree in library and information science from the  University of Washington, Melody got her start at Microsoft.  She  helped bring the Internet into their work world, taught Internet  classes, and built the first Web server in the Microsoft library.  In  1994, she moved to the University of Washington, where she coordinated  web projects for the University for 14 years.

As web tools matured, she led a content management selection process  which resulted in the choice of Plone.  She coordinated the content  management team, helped set the direction of the project, and  supported the users.

Melody was also a key participant in organizing the University's web  community by helping to start up the Content Management Working Group,  the Search Working Group, and the UW Plone group.  In addition, she  was a member of the UW Web Council Steering Committee. She managed  search tools for the UW, including a home-grown tool and later the UW  Google search.

She particularly values being a part of the open source world and  appreciates the rich community that contributes to Plone.

In her spare time, she enjoys gardening and is gratified to see the  lawn turning into something much more sustainable, with native plants,  food, and flowers.