World-class ski town. World-class design. Really.

Located in the beautiful Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, we are a team of dedicated professionals who know how to use technology to help you streamline your business processes. Whether you want to create a brand new system from scratch, upgrade an existing system or even make two systems talk to each other, we can help you. We understand business and technology.

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Meet our team

Stephanie Bright

Photo by Kelli Price

FOUNDER AND LEAD DEVELOPER

Stephanie Bright

Stephanie is the founder and lead developer of Bright Associates LLC. As lead developer, Stephanie is involved in all aspects of designing, developing and implementing custom business systems. Her most recent project involved creating, designing and implementing a system to manage projects for a facility management company. In addition to creating fully fledged systems, she also likes to get her hands on tangled data from other systems and transform it into usable information.

Technologies

ASP.NET, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Powershell, JQuery, Javascript,C#, Visual Basic, VB.NET, Microsoft Access, Node.js, Salesforce VisualSource, Zoho Creator and CRM.

Skill Set
  • System Design and Specification Creation
  • Coding and Scripting
  • Database Design and Querying
  • Documentation
  • Server Management
Fun Fact

Stephanie grew up on a sailboat but now lives in the mountains.

Laurel Jones

Senior Developer

Laurel Jones

Laurel is an experienced developer who can take your ideas and turn them into real life.

Technologies

ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server, JQuery, Javascript, Microsoft Access, C++

Skill Set
  • System Design and Specification Creation
  • Coding and Scripting
  • Database Design and Querying
Fun Fact

Laurel has lived in eight states including Alaska.

Nick Honetschlager

Senior Developer

Nick Honetschlager

Nick is a developer with experience in a variety of Microsoft technologies and all stages of software production and support. He enjoys learning new technologies, and applying them to custom software solutions.

Technologies

Microsoft Blazor, ASP.NET MVC, MS SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, C#, VB.NET, Visual Basic, Powershell, Sitefinity

Skill Set
  • System Design
  • Database Design
  • Coding and Scripting
Fun Fact

We recruited Nick while on a berry picking expedition in rural Minnesota!

Joshua Ditchoff

Security and Systems Specialist

Joshua Ditchoff

Joshua is our genius systems specialist who makes sure that the infrastructure needed for our clients and projects is setup properly and securely. He has been working in the IT field for over 30 years.

Technologies

AWS, Azure

Skill Set
  • Server Management
  • Security

Fun Fact

Josh is a dual Canadian and US citizen.

renée deinken

SENIOR WEB DEVELOPER

Renée Deinken

Renée has been building websites for nearly 20 years, using primarily the WordPress content management system. She specializes in building custom content management system websites for small to large organizations, including resorts, nonprofits, marketing firms, and special districts. Her content-focused, detail-oriented, and efficient approach to website development simplifies the project process for clients.

Technologies

HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript/jQuery, Drupal, WordPress

Skill Set
  • Developer: Front-end web developer experienced with HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript/jQuery
  • Project manager: Managed more than 100 website projects from start to finish
  • WordPress specialist: WordPress front-end developer and theme

  • Content management, writing and copy editing
  • Accessibility and WCAG specialist

Fun Fact

Renée enjoys mountain biking, snowboarding, reading, traveling, and spending time in the outdoors with her two boys.

Meet our pups

Bella
Bella
Dezi
Roy
Roy