The Zoolender Team
Anthony Powell-Founder/CEO
Anthony Powell is the visionary behind the Zoolender brand. His background is filled with a variety of business roles from marketing and sales to real estate and business development. Along with the development of several entrepreneurial endevers Tony attended Utah Valley University studying marketing before becoming the Director of Marketing and Sales for a major production company. In addition Tony has also founded a media production company specializing in film and live event production.
Branden Kirk-Co-Founder/President
Branden has an extensive background in real estate with over a decade of selling, advising and investing. An assoiciate real estate broker, Branden is also a principal owner in a real estate and development firm and his expertise in this field in invaluable as the Zoolender business continues to evolve.
Shawn Bassett-VP Marketing and Sales
Shawn earned a Bachelors degree in Psychology from the University of Utah and received his Masters degree from Georgetown University. His background has included a variety of roles in sales and marketing. He recently finished working for a physcian group developing educational and promotional videos and organizing executive events. Before that he worked in marketing and event planning for a large furniture company ranging in groups from 100 to 60,000 participants, focusing on creating brand awarness.
Laura Moody-Community Relations Director
Jennifer Mitchell-Community Relations Director
Zoolender has also teamed up with Lunawebs.com to handle the web-based marketing and promotions of bank owned properties.
The Lunawebs 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. While attending school he gained valuable automation, reporting and data mining skills while supporting various departments in the credit card financial and call center industry. After honing skills in sales at Qwest, he led successful teams in operations at San Francisco based Providian Financial and Compucredit Corp. based out of Atlanta. He is a proud father of 5, an Eagle Scout and former LDS missionary having served 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.