DL Byron — Principal, Blogger, Author

Byron is the Principal of Textura Design. He lived the dotcoms, dotcom crashes, invented Clip-n-Seal, speaks at conferences, and is the co-author of Publish & Prosper: Blogging for Your Business, a Peachpit Press book.

With more than thirteen years of experience, Byron is an expert blogger, designer and developer. An entrepreneur and an inventor, he consults with Textura Design's clients, develops blogging strategies; and publishes Bike Hugger, a blog about bike culture.

Byron lives in Seattle with his wife Pam, two children, and a pug named Cap’n. When he's not blogging, he races his bicycle with the Union Bay Cycling Club.

Scott Benish — Designer, Implementor, Problem Solver

Scott has been designing interfaces and multimedia elements for over 12 years. His diverse projects include work for Nike, Nintendo, New Line Cinema and Bonfire Snowboarding. Scott is a contributor to notable interactive design sites such as designinteract.com, digital-web.com and bornmagazine.org and has won awards from Communication Arts and ID Magazine. He is the creative for Textura Design, Brand Manager for Hugger Industries and freelances for an assortment of agencies, companies and individuals from his home in Portland Oregon.

Jason Swihart — Projects & Community

Jason leads Textura Design’s projects, finds answers to questions, and helps figure out how things should work.

As Director of Interactive at Colorado Ski Country USA until August 2006, Jason was responsible for launching one of the ski industry's first corporate blogs and for leading the trade organization's interactive strategy. Immediately prior, he worked in the hedge fund industry as a securities research analyst, developing statistical trading models for mixed securities funds. As technical director at SpireMedia, he racked up experience developing and deploying publishing platforms for educational institutions, dot coms, and telecommunications companies.

Jay Allen — Application Architect

Jay Allen is responsible for designing and implementing the application code that makes Textura Design’s blogs go.

During his tenure as Movable Type product manager at Six Apart, Jay was responsible for successfully leading the design, creation and release of Movable Type Enterprise 1.0—1.5, as well as Movable Type versions from 3.14 to 3.3.

As one of the original and most experienced external MT developers as well as the lead author of Hacking Movable Type, there is no one more qualified to lead the technical efforts related to the deployment of custom Movable Type implementations.

Pam Massey — Budgets and Operations Director

Pam is an operations director, budget manager, cookie baker, and mom.

Cap’n — Studio Pug

Cap’n is an adventurous pug, office minder, floor sniffer, and delivery driver barker. Cap’n makes various appearances on the blog homepage and we blog about her at pugblog.com.