Our Team
The Midnight Coders' team consists of a very talented group of technical professionals who are focused on delivering the most robust RIA technologies designed to make development easy and production deployments innovative, easy to use, powerful and scalable. The team members you've talked with most include:
Mark Piller
Mark is the Founder/CEO of Midnight Coders. With more than 15 years of experience in developing distributed computing applications, Mark has applied his deep technical acumen to produce the state of the art integration server platform known as WebORB. Prior to Midnight Coders, Mark worked at webMethods and was responsible for architecting the company's SOA solution. Prior experience includes leading the design and implementation of multiple features of Glue, a web-services platform from The Mind Electric that was acquired by webMethods, as well as senior technical positions with ObjectSpace, MCI and SABRE.
Kathleen Erickson
Kathleen brings a strong cross-functional skillset to the team that spans both technical and non-technical disciplines in multiple industries. She has enjoyed an exciting career selling, managing, marketing and advising early stage high-tech companies in the high performance computing (HPC), Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and telecom spaces. Kathleen is the primary sales and marketing contact.
Michael Gearhardt
Michael brings both server- and client-side development and design skills to the team. Having worked on almost every step in the process of designing, architecting, developing and deploying web applications using WebORB, he is the "Go to Guy" customers equate with "WebORB Support" and in his spare time is inventing new offerings for the Midnight Coders RIA Platform.
Lorrie Tate
Lorrie brings a strong account acquisition and management focus to the team, having a solid understanding of enterprise content management, capture and collaboration software in multiple industries including telecom, oil & gas and legal. Lorrie is the primary contact for products and services in the North American Southwest region.