We make bold new technology on the internet and mobile devices
dojo4 explores your idea and discovers its possibilities
dojo4 designs & engineers a lean, appropriate technology solution
dojo4 propels your vision into the world, ready for action
dojo4 is a creative software design, development and media team. We research, design and build well-crafted software, interfaces, and content for startups, established businesses, and impact enterprises. We help entrepreneurs realize the potential in their ideas; develop new innovations with multinational corporations; launch pilots, prototypes, and platforms; and have lots of fun along the way. Together we can make your dream real.
Our core capabilities include: technology product articulation, Ruby on Rails development, UX design, Node.js consulting, responsive web design, ExpressionEngine development, content strategy, Javascript hacking, UI creation, web video production and post-production, HTML5 slinging, CSS3 miracles, mobile web engineering, and a heck of a lot more.
Our creative muse, Anthony Dimitre has a strong understanding of UX and specializes in user interface design, branding, and illustration.
Anthony has a BA in Graphic Design from WWU in Bellingham, WA. After finishing his degree, he contracted for Seattle-based Neverstop.com, a boutique agency specializing in event design and production.
In 2007 he co-founded localcents.com and participated in Techstars. In 2009, he became a full-time freelance designer in the flourishing startup community of Boulder.
His portfolio includes work for high-profile clients such as Ikea, Target, UniQlo and MSN. Some of his illustrations have even been published.
Ara T. Howard (CTO) is an earliest adopter, minimalist architect, and prolific problem solver.
His background includes designing large-scale 24x7 satellite processing systems, building lean technology stressing startups, and contributing countless solutions to budding developers.
His work can be mined on the intertubes by googling 'ara.t.howard', but might better be discussed in person on an excursion high above the rocky mountain treeline, where he, his wife Jennifer, and children Axel and Nova do their finest work.
COO (and widely published photographer) Corey Kohn is a Boulder native who has lived all over the place, including NYC, California, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Germany, Holland, Austria, and India.
She started off studying biology and math, but ended up with a B.A. in Medical Anthropology from McGill University and a graduate degree in Communications from Concordia University.
Corey’s background in organizing high-level film and event production (from Oscar-nominated movies to conferences in Northern India) has given her a thorough range of experience in managing teams, transforming big visions into concrete products, and allowing innovative creativity and practical ingenuity to come together productively.
When not at the dojo, Corey likes to get around on her bike, reading books at the expense of lagging behind on her New Yorker subscription, wandering around with her camera to see what she can see, and having good conversations with the great people she is lucky enough to know.
Garett Shulman is a software engineer and systems analyst with a background in large scale enterprise identity management systems.
He specializes in designing and building secure and innovative web/mobile apps, as well as scalable and robust cloud-based backend data systems.
Garett has been helping people and companies flourish through the effective application of technology for nearly 20 years.
Justin Crawford is a senior technologist with substantial experience building teams and technology solutions for enterprise, higher education, startups and online publications. He has 20 years of professional history in information technology, if you include his two year stint as a paperboy in the mid-1980s. Since then Justin has been a database administrator, a lead software developer, a project manager, a drifter, a program director, an entrepreneur, an online publishing consultant, and a teacher. He has an M.A. in mass communication.
Justin has contributed original content to such publications as Nutrition and Well-Being A-Z, History of World Trade Since 1450, Wired Magazine, The Miami Herald and The Daily Camera. Not to mention the superlative blog at dojo4.com.
Justin likes building tools for people. His favorite tools are regexes and bicycles. Outside the dojo he may be found choring chickens, traveling through big empty places, reading dusty old books (on paper!) and trying stuff. Sometimes he may not be found.
Just as lenticular clouds soften Boulder's sandstone spires, so Moxy's winsome mien takes the edge off software development at dojo4.
But "winsome mien" didn't work as a job title, so the higher-ups decided on "Director of Public Relations."
Like all dojo4 employees, Moxy commutes by bike or paws, arriving at work the happier for it. Unlike her colleagues, though, Moxy doesn't need a laptop to get work done.
If you stop by sometime, you'll likely find her curled up at someone's feet or quietly seeking out a few head pats. And if you bring Cheddar Bunnies, you'll have a lifelong friend.
Steve Bailey hails from the land of stone walls, birch trees, and maple syrup, where he acquired questionable outhouse construction skills as a wilderness ranger.
Fortunately, he learned some web development too.
Indeed, Steve enjoys helping dojo4's stellar clients with everything from content strategy to scalable CSS. He also relishes the opportunity to learn from his "wicked smahht" colleagues. Sometimes he even writes short stories about them.
Steve misses fog, thinks snow should be wet, and often calls creeks "streams." We don't hold it against him.
Few in Boulder can claim to have dropped Ara on the trails around town. Zipper is one of them. You see, he's not your average, run-of-the-mill Boulderite.
Nay, Zipper is a master negotiator, both of mountains and of office politics. This is precisely why, in August of last year, he was promoted from CEO to Ombudsdog.
His mediating skills were immediately put to the test in the highly contentious "bike shorts affair", which (without compromising anyone's anonymity) nearly resulted in Steve's dismissal.
Zipper recently tried to implement a Basic Decorum Policy at dojo4, but it's being met with stiff resistance from the usual suspects.
You have a transformative idea, an innovation that will shake the world, a dream for something new and powerful and exciting. You have one chance to get it right. You need a team of experts to partner with. That's us!
You're an incredible developer or designer. You know there is important work to be done, and you want to do it with a crew that rolls deep. That's us!
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