Team Pelago
Jaime Prado
Senior Web Developer
Jaime Prado has been doing what he loves all his life. Long before formal academic web technology degrees were offered, he got started in the web business as a self-taught programmer, supported and encouraged by his family. Today, after 11 years in the business, he has mastered practically every kind of web technology under the online sun. He’s built and deployed truckloads of web solutions for both large and small companies. Knowledgeable in both Microsoft and Unix solutions, he’s also a keen industry supporter: he founded an…
Braden Jones
Co-Founder, Business Director
Braden is a natural born entrepreneur and Pelago’s primal driving force. He launched his first business at 15, growing and selling macadamia nuts to local farmers’ markets throughout California. Today, with 5 successful start-ups to his name, Braden harnesses his strong business acumen and leadership skills to drive Pelago’s products and services, business relationships and development, and overall company growth. He’s developed business strategies for other companies too, such as South Jetty, ForQuest, and Petunia…
Michael Payne
Co-Founder / Chief Architect
High energy producer, site architect, fast thinker, wearer of a thousand hats, Michael is a co-founder of Pelago and the resident guru architect behind Intervals, Pelago’s flagship product. Michael’s years of experience and his finely tuned instinct for what makes small businesses tick serve him well in his countless responsibilities here—project management, strategic planning, information technology, and development of custom web-based applications for Pelago’s broad customer base. And on top of all that, he’s…
John Reeve
Co-Founder and Senior Developer / Designer
Fifteen years of graphic design, information design and programming experience. A unique, philosophical understanding of the relationship between conceptual design and back-end architecture. A passion for creating the visual and functional elements of web sites. That’s what John brings to Pelago.
Extremely disciplined and task oriented, John describes himself as a production machine. Good luck getting his attention when he’s got his headphones on and he’s locked into the task at hand. His great passion is combining…
Cameron Brooks
Senior Web Developer
Cameron brings it all to the table. He codes, he builds database driven applications, he designs, handles multiple programming languages, and builds large-scale web applications. He’s able to bring incredible artistic creativity as well as a high level of technical knowledge to site architecture and database driven websites. Given his mix of academic and professional experience in technology and computer science (he graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a degree in Political Science and has spent 10 years…
Steve Schapansky
Director of Business Development
Steve sits in a well rounded position of site strategy, conceptual implementation and online marketing. He is not knee deep in the code, so Steve is often available to get closer to clients and partner in the direction of their site. Having been in the industry for quite some time (Web 0.x, Web 1.x, and Web 2.x), and having a successful history with dozens of clients and hundreds of projects, Steve has mastered the ability to communicate options, directions, and risks in an ever changing environment.
Take an uncanny knack for explaining…
