Who we are

Justin Grammens: Co-Founder
Email: Justin [at] RecursiveAwesome.com
Phone: 612.208.8663
Justin Grammens has been writing software for close to 12 years, holds a Masters Degree in Software Systems and has a patent pending on the process of a system to collect and rate digital media. He has written applications for a wide variety of platforms, in a number of different market sectors, is the owner of Localtone, LLC and founder of Mobile Twin Cities. Justin has built online e-commerce systems, real time mapping software, tax accounting systems and software for internet radio stations. He mainly works in the languages of Java, Ruby, Groovy and Objective-C and most recently has been developing software applications both for the iPhone, Android and Blackberry operating systems.

Sam Schroeder: Co-Founder
Email: Sam [at] RecursiveAwesome.com
Phone: 612.326.6577
Sam has been a software engineer and project manager for more than 10 years. He has managed the development of complex manufacturing systems and coordinated the installation of those systems to multiple users (1000+) in diverse geographic locations. As a project manager, Sam is proficient in the methodologies of the Project Management Institute (PMI.org) as well as newer agile techniques. As a software engineer, he is an expert in the Ruby, Objective-C, and Progress 4GL languages and many enterprise level database systems. Recently, he has been developing iPhone applications which communicate with Ruby on Rails web services.

Damon Allison: Principal Mobile Architect
Email: Damon [at] RecursiveAwesome.com
Phone: 612.986.3220
Damon is a software architect and developer with 11 years of experience in software architecture, development and team leadership positions. Damon partners with clients to design and execute mobile strategies, agile development techniques, and engineering best practices. Damon is an accomplished iOS developer with an ever growing number of iOS applications both on iTunes and outside of iTunes running within corporate environments. As a former Senior Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services, Damon helped shape IT strategy with large corporate clients in the insurance, retail, logistics, and financial industries. In the .NET space, Damon is MCDP certified and has authored two books on .NET languages and best practices. Damon has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Minnesota in Management of Information Systems.

Breon Nagy: Account Manager
Email: Breon [at] RecursiveAwesome.com
Breon Nagy has over 14 years of experience in retail, specifically Retail Display Design and Merchandising. Starting in a Best Buy store, he worked his way to the Corporate HQ, where he was promoted to Senior Designer of Interactive Displays. He is well versed in SolidWorks 3D and Adobe Creative Suite. Breon is very active in the local mobile community and is a regular presenter at Mobile Twin Cities. He is a self-proclaimed "Android fanboy" and can be found writing device reviews and covering Android news for DroidDog.com, where he is the News Editor.

Jared Mehle: Senior Software Engineer
Email: Jared [at] RecursiveAwesome.com
Jared has been writing software professionally for five years and has a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science. He specializes in both the design and development of websites and web applications. He has worked on a wide variety of projects including gift registries, digital magazine/newspaper publications, web services integration, and e-commerce sites. He has also hand-crafted numerous web site designs spanning a range of styles and moods. For the past three years, Jared has been working exclusively with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and Sinatra, but he has also worked with Java. He is an expert in W3C standards compliant CSS and HTML.

Rory Lonergan: Software Engineer
Email: Rory [at] RecursiveAwesome.com
Rory has a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University with a focus on communication systems, embedded devices and software. Mathematical modeling is another strong suit of his. He has designed and built several portable oxygen analyzers for SCUBA divers ranging from basic units to more complex ones. While C/C++ and PowerPC assembly were his preferred languages in college, he has branched out into Flex, Objective-C and Rails.

Phil Olson: Software Engineer
Email: Phil [at] RecursiveAwesome.com
Phil has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota with an emphasis on software engineering and relational databases. He has years of experience designing and maintaining websites using standards compliant HTML and CSS, with PHP as his language of choice for web development. In addition to web programming, he has worked on a number of projects including OpenGL applications and digital signature algorithms using C/C++ and Java.