Meet Your Dedicated Bigfork Web Team

You are looking at over 50 years of combined web development experience! All of us "uber-nerds" have a passion for the web and all it has to offer. We hope to extend that enthusiasm to our clients and show the many ways in which a website can promote and expand business and community.

 

Mike Callaghan - President

Bigfork Web Development, Inc. was founded in 2003 by owner Mike Callaghan. Mike has been creating and developing software solutions since 1995. He has worked in the Bay area doing web development work for the financial services and real estate industry. Since founding Bigfork Web the company has grown and expanded, providing service to clients locally and worldwide.

Mik enjoys working with clients, merging their ideas and needs with our technical and creative capabilities to achieve a final product that enhances their businesses. Mike, wife Emily, and their two labs, Kaya & Zoe enjoy being able to work and live in such a beautiful place such as Bigfork and Northwest Montana.

 

RoAnna Lau - Project Manager

Native to Colorado, RoAnna and her family moved to the Flathead Valley of Montana in the summer of 2003 for a change of pace and a nice place to raise her boys.

Studied multimedia/computer animation at the Colorado Institute of Art from 1998-2000. Areas of study and experience include computer graphics, animation and other multimedia applications involving audio, video and director applications.

Before relocating to Montana and coming on board with Bigfork Web, RoAnna was part of a marketing firm in Colorado, learning and working in design and print.

 

Jana L. Primmer - Project Manager

From a fishing village on the coast of Maine, to the Olympic Peninsula of Washington, to the desert region of Oregon, Jana comes the long way around to finding the valley she now calls "Home".

With an extensive background in office administration and project management, Jana compliments the Bigfork Team with organization, efficiency and a drive to keep projects in forward motion. Jana's longevity and experience in a 12 year career with a fast-growing company in Oregon benefits Bigfork WEB as we ourselves grow and expand and seek to serve our clients well.

With a history of establishing life-long relationships with clients, Jana brings a personal and human side to the world of web development, facilitating communications between our developers and our customers for everyone's greater success.

Jana has fully embraced the wild and wondrous outdoor opportunities in the Flathead Valley, and is proud to make her home here with her husband, son and 3 dogs.

 

Danielle McKean - Creative Director

Dani graduated from the University of Montana with a BA in English in 2004. She worked for a web design company on campus all through college where she did web design, front-end development and focused on accessibility and creating policy and training programs. Upon graduation she moved to Portland, OR. After a year in design and marketing at a small credit union, she took a position at the Port of Portland as a web developer in the marketing department. There she focused mainly on email marketing, newsletter creation, website stats and updates to portofportland.com.

Dani brings her experience and passion for the web to Bigfork Web and plans to continue to learn and grow in a field that she loves.

 

Roberto Lopez - Senior Developer

Roberto Lopez has over 15 years of IT industry experience. Roberto has extensive SQL Server administration and database design expertise. Over the last decade he has gained experience in .Net programming implementing projects ranging from financial analytical tools for investment firms to fully automated reporting solutions for medical billing.

Roberto is a Microsoft Certified Professional and shares his expertise by volunteering and speaking at his local SQL Server user group and .Net programmer's user group.

 

Dave Short - Web Developer

Dave has been involved in web development for over a decade, learning HTML and Perl in middle school and moving on from there. He started work on a degree in English Education at the University of Montana, but never finished it. Computer programming was too tempting to resist, and in 2005 he switched to Computer Science. To support his longer-than-usual schooling, he found a job as a tech at the residence hall help desk, and worked his way up the chain until he was the lead web programmer. Along the way, he learned to apply his education in software engineering to web applications, focusing on code reusability, security, object-oriented architecture, and design. Upon graduation in 2008, he moved to Kalispell to start work at Bigfork Web.

 

Carrie Short - Web Developer

Carrie is a Kalispell native with strong family ties to the Flathead Valley. She left to attend school at The University of Montana where she studied English Literature. While at the university, she began a part time job with an on-campus web design company. She worked there for three years as a web designer, developer, and project manager.

She recently went on a month long excursion through Mediterranean Europe. Upon returning she began working for Bigfork Web as a web developer and married her college sweetheart Dave Short. She's happy to be home, and is looking forward to getting to know the Bigfork community better.

 

Alicia Despain - Office Manager/ Account Support Specialist

Before moving to Montana and joining the Bigfork Web team, Alicia was employed by an international company where she took her Administrative abilities and Upper Level Management to a whole new level. Her ability to research and organize led her to create standards and procedures that are still in effect to this day throughout the entire company. The efficiency of her work and her ability to understand a large variety of different computer programs has helped her take creative ideas to a functional level throughout her career. 

She attended a Business College in Idaho where she gained great experience in Business Ethics and Administrative Skills along with strong attention to detail and organization.

She was raised in Lewiston Idaho and moved to the Flathead Valley in 2007. Alicia very soon settled down with her husband and three children in Bigfork. As a family they love the outdoors and spending as much time on the water as possible; whether it’s swimming or boating in the summer or ice fishing in the winter.

Her personal passion, which is still second to her family, is photography and living in Montana has given her an endless landscape to capture. 

 

Kevin Cole - System Administration

Coming from a programming background, Kevin started dealing with system administration in the late 90's when he was working with a team of programmers from the federal government. Kevin now manages a wide range of systems across the United States and began working with Bigfork Web in 2001. Before Bigfork Web, he learned a great deal about many different systems. Kevin particularly took a liking to the Linux operating system because of the flexibility, security, and functionality it offers in an Internet environment. Kevin really enjoys working with clients and developing solutions that make their business more productive and profitable.

Kevin, wife Nikki, and their dog Maia enjoy traveling. Every year they look forward to traveling some place new. Kevin also has become very fond of Jeeping in the Red Rock deserts of Utah.

 

Strategic Partners

In addition to our in-house staff, Bigfork Web is fortunate to have close working relationships with the following firms. Our Partners are selected based upon the needs of a given project and lend their specialized experience to our development process where needed.

 

Mcleod MORGAN DESIGN

www.mcleodmorgan.com
Bigfork Web has a long-running relationship with Mcleod Morgan's graphic design agency here in the Flathead Valley.

Mcleod Morgan Design specializes in inventorying your unique brand qualities, organizing them into an understandable story and designing an effective promotional solution. They offer many design services including: Websites, Brochures, Magazine Ads, Business Identity, Point-of-Sale, Product Packaging, Event Collateral, Catalog Design, Magazine Design, Sales Presentations and Brand Strategy Development.