Our Team

My professional experience: I have spent my entire career in advertising, my passion is to grow businesses.

Fun fact: I have the highest handicap at the country club I belong to.

My hobbies: I enjoy golfing, riding motorcycles, and spending time with family and friends.

My professional experience: Over 30 years of experience in both buying and selling traditional and digital advertising. I handled all aspects of a $2 million/year advertising budget for 10 locations. It has helped me understand the unique challenges business owners have in figuring out the best advertising for their business.

Fun fact: I am a mother of fraternal twin girls, who are now adults. One blonde hair blue eyed, and one brown hair brown eyed. Probably my single best accomplishment was surviving the teenage years and we all still love each other, lol!

My hobbies: I love traveling with my husband and spending time with all of our kids and grand-kids. I enjoy canning and reading.

My professional experience: I have over 30 years in sales, Business development, marketing and advertising. I have owned and operated 2 successful local businesses in the Portland – Vancouver area.

Fun fact: I was on family feud.

My hobbies: I love spending time with my family and vacationing. I play in a hard rock band and have written and recorded 3 cd’s.

My professional experience: I manage our amazing production team. I have been with EWS since 2011 and love every second of it. I love the ever changing pace and watching the magic come alive with each of our clients specific wants or wishes and then seeing how my teams minds come together to make it happen.

Fun fact: I’m a mama of 3 wild and in charge little boys. It’s a beautiful chaos.

My hobbies: I’m always studying and testing new things in this industry but when I’m not I love turning trash into treasure. On my off time you can find me at garage sales, Goodwill or on local swap sites trying to score my next project piece. Chalk painting is one of my most favorite hobbies.

My professional experience: I have many, many years business experience, ranging from Word Processor Operator to Corporate Secretary.

Fun fact: I have 9 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. I am also a published author.

My hobbies: I love to spend time with family. I like to read, sew and be outdoors.

My professional experience: Over 25 years in the lumber industry. Ventured into the coffee business in 2000. Moved to Arizona in 2003 as a GC building homes for five years. In 2009 Wes started EWS and asked if I would like to come on board. I told Wes I would love to if I could work in phoenix. With my knowledge of the various trades and people I’ve worked with, and what our staff is capable of, this has been a successful venture for myself and my clients for the last 15 years.

Fun fact: I went hang gliding without taking any lessons.

My hobbies: I love playing golf and traveling with my wife. I have four children, and six grand children that I love spending time with. I love restoring cars.

My professional experience: Recently graduated with my AA transfer degree in business. Currently working on my Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration at WSUV. I have over 7 years experience in sales.

Fun fact: I’m a direct descendant of Alexander Hamilton.

My hobbies: I love watching and playing sports. I enjoy spending time with my family, and two children. I also spend a lot of my free time hiking, being outdoors, and traveling.

My professional experience: Managing EWS network infrastructure since 2011. Assist clients with webmaster duties, website changes, manage clients hosted e-mail accounts, DNS entries, and in-house IT support. Ensure everyone we host is always protected from hackers and malware by monitoring and implementing security measures. Keep computers up to-date and all-around office maintenance.

Fun fact: I enjoy seafood.

My hobbies: Perfecting my skills in designing, building and painting construction projects. I enjoy doing photography with my wife and watching Mark Rober videos with my kids.

My professional experience: My experience includes a variety of organizational and administrative tasks that allowed me the opportunity to grow within my prior roles. My other positions allowed me to practice applying my skillset to the areas I recognized each company needed most. I want to continue using my organizational abilities to achieve faster and more effective processes within our team.

Fun fact: My first job was with Effective Web Solutions as a customer service representative. Years later I returned as a project coordinator.

My hobbies: In my free time I enjoy spending time with my kids & traveling. We like to frequent Arizona to visit family several times a year. We love the outdoors and enjoy spending time with family and friends.

My professional experience: I love the position I have as it is rather unique. On one hand, I love managing our client’s social media accounts to help with brand awareness and building trust with new customers. This allows me to work with our clients and get those creative juices flowing. Social media is a forever changing platform, which allows me to constantly learn new things. On the other hand, I get to work with clients’ current customer base to ensure their revenue stream is consistent and encourage current customers to come back for another service. With that said, I have 9+ years of customer service and 6 years of management/bookkeeping which plays a huge role in my passion behind everything I do.

Fun fact: I was born and raised on the Big Island of Hawai’i, I lived there all my life before deciding to up and move to Washington in 2018. I go back a few times a year to visit family and submerse myself back to my roots.

My hobbies: Going to the farmers market with my husband, finding new coffee shops, collecting and caring for my houseplants, and getting outdoors for a walk or a hike.

My professional experience: I have an extensive background in the financial industry and working for data research companies.

Fun fact: I have two kids a daughter named Tegan who was born in the start of the crazy pandemic, and my son who is older.

My hobbies: I love thrifting and vintage shopping. Love turning old furniture/decor  into unique pieces I can use in my home. I was born in Honolulu Hawaii and one of the things I most passionate about is cooking “local” food in which I learned from my mom, in making comforting Hawaiian food for my kids.

My professional experience: I have 10 years of experience in Retail Assets Protection in the metropolitan areas of Portland and Seattle. I worked a few miscellaneous jobs post my assets protection career. My friends opened a bar in 2021 whom I ended up working for while in search of a new career. I also worked at a credit union for a short time prior to switching gears to pursue a career as an SEO at EWS.

Fun fact: I was held by Michael Jordan as an infant. Unfortunately I didn’t absorb his powers in that.

My hobbies: I love the outdoors the PNW has to offer. All of it collectively, Hiking, camping, Swimming, and sightseeing. I compose music, and eat at Cafe Yumm way more often than I should. I also like to bike and skateboard when the weather permits and frequent the gym.

My professional experience: I’ve always been passionate about business- Sales & Marketing as my focus. Supporting the goals of Business Owners is exciting to me! I love to dig in and solve a problem. EWS has such a great team and Mission, I’m honored to be a part of it.

Fun fact: I live on the Washougal River with my kids & Husband, and we’re starting a mini-farm!

My hobbies: Time with my kids is #1, we love animals, crafts, and Rockhounding! When I have time to myself though, you’ll probably catch me studying or reading.

My professional experience: I was a Corporate Data Research Analyst specialized in SMB and INC IT department analysis.

Fun fact: I’ve driven coast to coast twice.

My hobbies: I’m always looking for a new city to explore or a new food to try. I spend most of my free time reading, hiking or finding a new show to binge watch.

My professional experience: I graduated with my associates degree from Clark College in 2019 and plan to go to WSUV for my bachelors degree in English. I have studied American Sign Language for 3 years. Working at EWS has allowed me to expand my field of writing and challenge myself every day.

Fun fact: I am obsessed with Harry Potter, I lived in Germany for a couple of years, and I can count to 10 in seven languages.

My hobbies: I enjoy binge watching Friends on Netflix, reading and writing fantasy fiction and eating. I love all food and am always excited to try new cuisines!

My professional experience: After graduating from Missouri Western State University with a B.A. in English with a concentration in technical communication and a certification in French, I moved to France for a year to teach English. I worked as a freelance SEO content writer before coming onto the EWS team in 2022.

Fun fact: I have traveled to 14 different countries.

My hobbies: I enjoy running, reading, and hiking around the PNW area. I also like hot tubbing in the evenings when it is cool out after a long day of work.

My professional experience: I have worked in the customer service and musical instrument retail industry for just over 10 years prior to being with EWS. While there, I held many job titles including Assistant Repair Technician, Sales Associate, Accounts Receivable, and Online Sales Manager.

Fun fact: I am very into Dungeons & Dragons and Norse mythology. You can find me running my Norse inspired D&D campaign every other weekend.

My hobbies: A few of my hobbies include reading, playing video and board games with friends, and learning new languages. I am currently learning Scottish Gaelic!

My professional experience: During my English Graduate program at the College of Charleston, I was the Assistant Editor for a contemporary literary magazine titled Illuminations. I also worked as a freelance writer throughout the program and became a published poet. After graduating from my program, I moved across the country to begin my professional career as a content writer, and I am thrilled to be part of the EWS team!

Fun fact: I have a first-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

My hobbies: In my free time, I enjoy hiking with my husband and my two rescue dogs, reading and writing fantasy novels, and playing RPGs and survival horror games. When I’m not searching for the best restaurants in the city, I’m at home trying new recipes, crafting cocktails, and recreating foods from my favorite cuisines.

My professional experience: I have been doing web development and design for several years. I started with EWS in March of 2015 and was immediately exposed to the vast and ever changing world of SEO. I enjoy the never ending education in this field.

Fun fact: I love 100° weather and snow. I am a total water baby. If I’m swimming, playing or floating in a body of water I am a happy camper. I also love sledding.

My hobbies: I enjoy Lucas and Spielberg movies (not necessarily joint works), old Sierra adventure PC games, poker, heavy metal shows, traveling, friends and my very large (extended) family.

My professional experience: I have worked with Effective Web Solutions since 2015 in which I have had the opportunity to learn many positions within our company from citations, our reputation management program, to now being a web developer. I love the constant change and learning opportunities within our industry.

Fun fact: I archery hunt with my hubby.

My hobbies: I love spending time with my family. Whether we are staying in and having a movie night or going out on an adventure.

My professional experience: I have worked with EWS since 2015. During this time I have been fortunate in being able to wear many hats and learn different specialties in this industry. I have worked my way up to being a Web Developer and I couldn’t be happier in my current position. EWS has given me the opportunity to learn new skills as I continue to further my knowledge in Web Development.

Fun fact: I am a Mama and a Step Mama

My hobbies: In my Free time I enjoy spending time with my Family, any outdoor activities and home decorating.

My professional experience: I’ve been continually coding and creating since the advent of the Web. I joined the expert team at EWS after many years proudly encouraging the growth of startups, community organizations, local brick-and-mortars, and global brands.

Fun fact: In a strange and surprising turn of events in 2011, one of my own websites became the 9th most popular post of all time ever to be listed on Reddit.

My hobbies: I enjoy learning classical pieces on guitar, rock music, bicycling, writing software, reading manuals, editing Wikipedia, scrolling, clicking, extrapolating (see xkcd), reading xkcd, and using Oxford commas.