meet the team
Lisa Goettel :: Owner & Designer
Lisa has been designing and building websites since 1998. Working at a Boulder, Colorado e-commerce company for four years she served as lead project manager for clients such asThe Sporting News, Thrifty Rental Cars, Hewlett-Packard and Whole Foods. She also served as the online communications manager for the Gill Foundation and executive director of the Denver Women’s Chorus, before moving to Big Sur in 2005.
Lisa lived and worked at the Esalen Institute for two years and now serves as an online communications consultant to the organization. In addition to website development, Lisa is a musician, singing instructor and writer. Her loves of music and the wild beauty of Big Sur are constant sources of inspiration.
Linda Engelman :: Site Manager
Long before there was a World Wide Web, Linda began her foray into the world of the Internet. More than a decade ago, she authored a college textbook called “Interacting on the Internet.” Later, when the Web came along, Linda learned HTML programming, and offered Web site development to companies throughout the Bay Area. For several years, she was a columnist for the computing section of the San Jose Mercury News, and for Internet World Magazine, writing about all of the excitement of the new online world.
Linda has taught all levels of HTML programming, and Web site project management at colleges, adult education programs, and privately for corporations. She also established and taught a community college class that matched student teams with non-profits, in order to provide Web sites to organizations that couldn’t otherwise afford them.
Linda lives and works in the East Bay. When she’s not programming and designing Web sites, she also maintains a part-time practice as a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist. She is passionate about this work, and enjoys the balance it brings to her life. Having two very different careers allows her to bring both right-brain and left-brain creativity to all of her clients.
Robbie McCown :: Project Manager
Robbie McCown is a graphic/web designer based in Vacaville, California who joined Birdwing Designs in 2010. In addition to working with Birdwing, he also runs Girlysounds, a blog devoted to promoting independent female musicians.
Jeremy Taylor :: Project Manager
Jeremy Taylor has been working as an IT professional since 1997, following two years as a graphic designer. He has a wide
breadth of IT experience in many areas including web development. Jeremy has been developing web sites since the late 1990s, though he says “I got more serious about it in 2007 as better web standards and technologies continued to emerge and the worst web browser ever, Microsoft IE6, finally began to die off like the dinosaur it was.”
In 2001, Jeremy moved from his hometown Nashville, Tennessee to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California where he lived and worked for almost nine years, serving as Information Services Manager for over four years.
Jeremy currently works and lives in Mountain View, California. Jeremy is a former Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, and current Apple Certified Technical Coordinator for Mac OS X 10.6. In his spare time, Jeremy plays chess, table tennis, and dances.
