About Us
Michael Wills has more than 25 years experience as a graphic designer, 3D animator and web designer, including 9 years at Silicon Graphics, Inc. in Mountain View producing animation and managing a technical marketing group responsible for demonstrating SGI's computers to thousands of visitors each year. He then spent 5 years at Tech TV (formerly ZDTV) as an animator using Maya animation software and working with a team to create television show packages (watch his animation reel). Since moving to Sebastopol 7 years ago, he has become a Certified Apple Technician, and worked to create a clientele for Bear Gulch Technologies.
Currently, Michael specializes in site development using Drupal as a CMS and creates custom Drupal themes for Bear Gulch Technologies clients.
Fred Loehr is a software developer with substantial experience building and supporting high-volume, high-availability websites. He built his first web-based system in 1995, designing software to capture and distribute invoice images over the corporate intranet for the Electric Power Research Institute. At GetThere, one of the first public online travel vendors, he was part of the team that built the web-based reservation engine that originally powered united.com for United Airlines. He has consulted to Sabre Holdings and Travelocity, and recently helped a small startup move its product to market and connect to PayPal for payment processing. His software skills are a perfect complement to the design skills of his partner, Michael Wills.