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As fivestar*’s director of marketing, Marissa sets the overall strategy and direction* of the marketing team. She has over 10 years of experience leading marketing efforts and driving results across a diverse range industries and tactics.

Barry Wandel is the Manager of Software Devleopment at fivestar*. Barry has over 15 years of experience spearheading development, leading teams and managing complex projects. Barry is an expert in countless technologies and methodologies – including Agile, Scrum, .NET, and JavaScript. Barry joined the team in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and has flawlessly transitioned into his role as while simultaneously adjusting to working from home.

Doug brings over 20 years of experience to fivestar*, spending 10+ years as a Non-Profit CEO of a business accelerator building relationships and connecting entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations to more than $20M in funding and capital investments. During that time, Doug helped his clients launch more than 30 companies and accumulated over 10,000 hours of consulting experience in Salesforce, manufacturing, software and product development, economic development, universities, non-profit management and fundraising.

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Michael’s path to full-stack developer has been anything but traditional, he went from boot camp graduate, to apprentice, to full-time developer in less than a year. He is a self-taught development maverick with a tool-set that seems to get larger daily. We’ve wanted to give him the spotlight for some time, so when the coding bootcamp he graduated from moved in next door, we knew it was time. […]

Like “brunch” or “Brangelina”, user-experience (UX) and user-interface (UI) design have melded into a single term; “UI/UX”. In a mostly non-scientific study, I asked a handful of people across […]

Last week I had the opportunity to present at my alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh, at the Blast Furnace student accelerator program. It was an incredible experience being around […]

It’s our first employee spotlight in a series to come, and to celebrate our 22nd anniversary, we thought it only fitting to give the spotlight to our first employee – Cory Seaman. Cory’s history has been […]

As an Iron Sponsor for Steel City Codefest, fivestar* continues to rally behind the notion that, when it comes to technology, even a little bit of support can go a long way. During the week-long coding […]