Credits
Without these awesome and passionate folks below, Ignite Tampa Bay would never light up!
Ashley Ray
Social Media IGNITER and Blogger
Ashley Ray is a community manager and rabble rouser for Ballywho Interactive by day and beer brewer, baseball blogger and literacy tutor by night. Ashley's passion is her blog. As an anthropology major from USF she combines her love of culture with her love of baseball to produce a unique and thought provoking blog about culture in baseball that she hopes some day MLB will take notes on. She is the one igniting the interwebs!
Benjamin Marte
Interactive Media Developer
Ben is a freelance Interactive Media Developer who helps other small companies to successfully launch their projects on time and on budget. He has over 12 years of experience creating Interactive Training modules for the pharmaceutical industry adhering to 21 CFR part 11 regulations. Always looking to learn whats next, you will find Ben on Twitter, Facebook,Forrst, Kirupa and MODx forums looking for solutions or helping others if he's not in one of those places then you can find him on Xbox Live. He is the one making the internets at BMV-Interactive.
David Harris
Entrepreneur
David Harris is building Intelelearn, an innovative eLearning company in Tampa that designs and develops engaging eLearning that works, specializing in corporate training. A product of InteleLearn is Future Founders Lab that uses blended learning to empower teens with entrepreneurial skills to uplift themselves, their communities and our world. The curriculum focuses on creative thinking, business model generation and Lean startup.
Joel Lopez
Entrepreneur
Justine Benstead
Photographer
Justine Benstead is a local Tampa, Fl-based freelance writer and photographer. She is a passionate reader, thinker, and dreamer. Ignite Tampa makes her happy because it is full of inspiring people who want to do something, even if we don’t know quite what that is. Justine received a BA in English from USF. Her written work has appeared on examiner.com, icraft.ca, and tampaflattractions.com. Her photography is featured on her blog and on the Female Photographers of Etsy blog.
Peter Radizeski
Entrepreneur
Peter Radizeski is a consultant to telecommunications companies who lives in Tampa and works with a great group of folks to put on cool events like BarCamp and IGNITE Tampa Bay so that he gets to hang out with the coolest people in town!
Wayne Rasanen
Videographer
Wayne Rasanen, a broadcast video editor by trade, is the current President of the Tampa Bay Inventors council, a position he has held for the past six years in this 28 year old non-profit organization. Wayne coordinates the group events and takes an active role to bring the world of inventing to first time inventors to help them become product developers. His own innovation is the remodeling of the computer keyboard to make touch-typing easy on small devices. The “It Types” keyboard is the product of several years of development and makes its debut at CES 2012. To see more about his innovation, visit in10did or to become involved in inventing.
