Staff
Neal Myrick
Executive Director
- phone: 206.286.1235 x12
- email: neal@groundwire.org
Neal Myrick brings a wealth of experience to Groundwire. He is thrilled to lead this expert team and believes in the impact of engagement technology on building thriving communities and a healthy planet. He was the managing director of technology at Casey Family Programs, a national foundation focusing on issues of foster care. Before Casey he spent a decade working for Seattle-based software companies including Visio, where he built and managed a worldwide team of IT professionals.
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David Averill
Director of Consulting
- phone: 206.286.1235 x18
- email: davida@groundwire.org
Dave Averill built our nationally recognized consulting team. He manages an all-star team of software developers and consultants. Dave works with each client from intake through implementation through evaluation, ensuring that the mission-driven organizations we work with have the engagement tools they need to build a better world.
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Jon Baldivieso
Web Development Program Manager
- phone: (206) 286.1235 x28
- email: jonb@groundwire.org
Jon leads one of the best web teams around, committed to making beautiful websites behave the way they should using the open source content management system Plone.
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Kelley Bevans
Project Manager
- phone: 206.286.1235 x26
- email: kelley@groundwire.org
From intake through launch, Kelley manages website projects for Groundwire. Before helping mission-driven organizations use technology to engage more people, she worked in the decision-analysis software industry, where she focused on web integration and IT project management.
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Evan Callahan
CRM Consultant
- phone: 206.286.1235 x14
- email: evan@groundwire.org
A Salesforce Certified Consultant, Evan brings 15 years experience providing database and strategic technology solutions to nonprofits. Most recently, he led the database consulting practice at NPower Seattle. Evan is the author of several books on Microsoft Access.
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Nicolas Campbell
CRM Developer
- phone: 206.286.1235 x33
- email: nicolas@groundwire.org
A Salesforce Certified Force.com Developer, Nicolas is a native Washingtonian who has lived half of his life in Toulouse, France. He earned a bachelor's degree in computer science before returning to the shores of the Puget Sound, where he worked at Microsoft in software development and project management for several years.
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Tiffany Devoy
Development Director
- phone: 206.286.1235 x13
- email: tiffany@groundwire.org
Tiffany's strong commitment to social and environmental justice brought her to Groundwire in early 2006. Before joining Groundwire, Tiffany spent more than 10 years fundraising in and for the Seattle nonprofit community.
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Ryan Foster
Developer
- phone: 206.286.1235x30
- email: ryan@groundwire.org
Ryan happily (his words) spends his time building and designing rich User Interfaces and applications as part of our Web and CRM teams. While not at work he enjoys a good game of soccer and figuring out life with his lovely partner Hilary and cat Emma.
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Sara Freedman
Editor
- phone: 206.286.1235 x42
- email: sara@groundwire.org
Sara enjoys writing about the environment and technology in plain language. She was raised in the high desert of Oregon -- home to timber barons, cattle ranchers and environmentalists.
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David Glick
Web Developer
- phone: 206.286.1235 x32
- email: dglick@groundwire.org
David divides his time between implementing websites in Plone, keeping the servers running, and developing new tools and applications. He is a Plone core developer and a member of the Plone security team and the Plone roadmap team, and served as a technical reviewer of Martin Aspeli's much-loved book on Plone development.
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David Habib
CRM Consultant
- phone: 206.286.1235 x25
- email: davidhabib@groundwire.org
David joins Groundwire after nine years of working on his own, trying to save the world, one nonprofit database and web project at a time. He's excited to work once again with smart, motivated people, and to continue to serve the nonprofit community.
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Sam Knox
CRM Consultant
- phone: 206.286.1235 x21
- email: sam@groundwire.org
Sam has extensively documented many of the online tools used by Groundwire and our clients including the Plone Content Management System and Salesforce. He is now focused on delivering the Email Broadcasting consulting program and Salesforce consulting in addition to training, web analytics consulting, content strategy and related projects.
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Eric Magnuson
Product Manager
- phone: 206.286.1235 x22
- email: eric@groundwire.org
- twitter: @emagnuson
Eric Magnuson leads our software product development program, bringing constituent engagement technology to social change nonprofits and mission-driven organizations. He spent many years developing web technologies and the last ten directly serving the needs of nonprofits online.
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Dave Manelski
CRM Program Manager
- phone: 206.286.1235x31
- email: davem@groundwire.org
Dave Manelski is a database specialist who leads Groundwire CRM team. He has been a project leader on our largest CRM projects, including work with Green for All, Idaho Conservation League, the Alliance for Climate Education, Tree People, Dogwood Initiative, and The Story of Stuff. Dave is a Certified Force.com Developer and Salesforce MVP.
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Chris McCullough
Strategist
- phone: 206.286.1235 x19
- email: chrism@groundwire.org
Chris McCullough brings a combination of hands-on technical skills and nine years of in-the-trenches campaign experience to Groundwire. He was the campaign director for Congressman Jay Inslee and managed the successful I-937, a statewide renewable energy initiative. He helped launch Fuse, an online progressive advocacy organization, and was the deputy director for the Obama campaign in Washington state.
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Christine O'Connor
Operations Director
- phone: 206.286.1235 x29
- email: christine@groundwire.org
Christine is responsible for making sure that the organization has timely financial reports, good HR practices and the administrative systems that the organization needs to run well, as well as legal matters and support for the board of directors.
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Sean Pender
Information Systems Manager
- phone: 206.286.1235 x11
- email: sean@groundwire.org
Sean has a political science degree from Western Washington University with an emphasis on Public Policy and Administration and this has almost no relevance whatsoever to his current job at Groundwire, where he is responsible for the day to day management of the office. This includes things like HR, bookkeeping, helping keep the internal data clean and helping proofread Groundwire publications and documents, so if you find a typo, email him.
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Matthew Scholtz
CRM Consultant
- phone: 206.286.1235 x27
- email: matthew@groundwire.org
Matthew has over a decade of experience building databases and helping organizations use CRM to further their missions.
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Karen Uffelman
Director of Client Strategy
- phone: 206.286.1235 x20
- email: karen@groundwire.org
Along with an extensive knowledge of country western song lyrics from the late '70s and early '80s, Karen brings significant expertise in membership engagement, coalition building, fundraising, and asking questions. She is an eternal optimist, loves the rain, and suffers from a serious cookbook addiction.
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Matt Yoder
Web Developer
- phone: 206.286.1235x17
- email: mattyoder@groundwire.org
Since childhood, Matt could never decide whether to become an artist or a geek. So he compromised and became a "middle-end" web developer, working in the places where geeky back-end meets the elegant front-end. He specializes in platform integration, data manipulation and visualization.
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