Meet our Team

As a small agency focused on craftsmanship, we have to be experts in more than one area. With us you get a designer, developer plus a small team.

Abby Spyker

Lead Designer

Abby is an exquisite listener, asks the right questions and can quickly grasp a client’s goals and make recommendations for how to execute and reach or exceed those goals. Abby is a conscientious team leader, a trustworthy client advocate, and a creative visual storyteller (in any medium). Abby is a photoshop master, second to none. She has a strong design eye and knows when something looks good. If you find something you like, her ability to recreate an exact match as a layered photoshop file quickly and with precision, is impressive and useful.

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Her world-class technical skills and understanding across many platforms (web, print, video, animated graphics, code, writing) make her a strong leader and team member, whether she’s doing the actual work or evaluating and communicating what is needed. From translating programmer needs for the client to translating client needs for the programmer, Abby knows enough on both sides to be a good translator and problem solver.

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Travis Buck

Backend Development

Travis is a well-rounded lead developer, a domain and hosting guru and a WordPress authority. Having done photoshop work for Bloomingdale’s, Bon Marché and R.E.I, Travis is an expert in photoshop retouching and image manipulation for print and web. He can translate client requests to functional code with apparent ease. Travis is a domain and hosting expert, is an actual domain registrar and has been hosting websites for over 20 years (started hosting his own website in his own closet in 1994). A social media wizard,

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Travis has well over 10K twitter followers and has reaped the benefits (including an invite to google, free swag and some notable twitter followers). Travis has been writing in PHP since before WordPress even existed, and since WordPress came into the picture – he’s upped his game by becoming a WordPress expert, plugin writer, theme developer and master customizer of all things WordPress. You might hear him mention he’s in a private WordPress group that helps vote on ways to improve WordPress; it really does help being in a group with other developers and the wordpress founders; he can (and does) reach out directly to any of the big plugin developers through his group and uses that WP-hivemind to generate solutions to complex challenges.

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Holly Stassens

Lead Developer

Web designers have a unique set of skills. They have to be highly digital and detail oriented, but also capable of thinking out how to compartmentalize information, so that your company’s story is presented both logically and in a visually compelling way.

After graduation, she worked for a local digital agency where she worked on a number of websites. She can do a lot of different jobs, from seeing designs through from prototyping to implementing to focusing on coding up existing designs.

Tannyr Ellingson

Senior Developer

Tannyr is a talented front end developer that’s passionate about the latest technology. He is a master of Javascript, HTML 5 and CSS. He always goes above and beyond; offering solutions to our clients that they did not even know existed before. A strong believer that less is more, he is passionate about solving problems through code.

Jamie Godfrey

Lead Visual Designer

Jamie has dedicated much of her time to learning and keeping up with the latest front and back end technologies. This makes her the perfect fit for the role of Lead Visual Designer at NW Media Collective Inc. Merging her design background with her fluency in coding enables her to create spectacular websites for clients of all types.

Andy Erickson

Full Stack Developer

Andy is passionate not just about strategy, but about the research that underpins the best strategies, the narratives that propel them, and the systems that sustain them and create lasting change. He is highly adaptable, with a passion for problem solving and wide-ranging, detail-oriented knowledge base, and makes a unique asset to the NW Media Collective inc. team as a Full Stack Developer.

Katie Fennelly

Project Manager

Katie is right there on the front line of NW Media Collective, coordinating and managing client’s projects as well as overseeing the operations of the office as a whole, creating many of our office protocols and workflows that have increased development proficiency. Katie’s experience in project management, ability to understand clients’ needs and warm personality have strengthened our communication with clients. Along with providing quality feedback and testing for developers, Katie also possesses a keen editing eye and strong creative direction for our designers.

Belal Sejouk

Frontend Developer

Belal is a developer specializing in back-end WordPress development. With 9 years of experience in the industry, he has worked for companies large and small, on sites of all sizes, in the US, the UK, France, and Canada.

Kelsey Suski

Content Marketer

A full-time freelancer and part-time globetrotter, Kelsey remotely supports NW Media Collective Inc. and its clients. Originally from Oregon, she is currently based in Vietnam after working in Germany, China and Cambodia. She has written and marketed content for financial news companies in Southeast Asia. Her work has appeared in the inboxes of thousands of e-newsletter subscribers and on major online financial news outlets like Forbes, The Street and Seeking Alpha. She has also helped a small network of businesses in Ho Chi Minh City grow by taking care of their branding, blogging and social media needs.

Joanna Pasik

Graphic Designer

Joanna is a seasoned Graphic Designer who has been in the business for 8+ years. She in a PNW native, but left for California for College where she earned her degree in Visual Communications. The majority of her experience has been designing for movies and television, and she has dozens of digital, print, and outdoor campaigns under her belt. Joanna recently left the Hollywood glam and has found her way to NW Media Collective inc., and is happy to be part of the team!

Chrissy Lucas

Senior Producer

Chrissy comes from an advertising agency background, working most recently at BBDO. She has been producing for almost ten years, tackling everything from social content to $1MM+ TV campaigns.

She brings experience working on campaigns for large companies including Norwegian Cruise Line, Toys R Us, Pennzoil and Georgia Lottery to name a few. We’ve been able to hear about commercials with helicopters, high-end cars and even shooting with one of the producers / directors of “Stranger Things.”

Her ability to produce or delegate as needed while actively producing multiple projects is an asset to a growing web agency.

Christina Broussard

Copywriter

She is a multimedia artist, designer and videographer based in Portland, Oregon. Her passion for the digital arts began over a decade ago and she has since been evolving her skills across several mediums including sound design, video production, and web design.