I feel like we came out of hibernation with Sam. We shook off the dust and got to realize a whole bigger vision of what our product could become and what our service could become and really start flying towards that vision. We really moved the company from something that was very static and stale to this dynamic, ongoing force of how we are going to grow the company but also shape the industry that we’re in

Ryan Schwartz

Founder & CEO, Mental Health Match

MixLab™ alone was a huge innovation. There's no competitor that we know of that has a similar feature available to creators, YouTubers, and small businesses … Sam and the rest of the team’s understanding of music helped them really knock it out of the park.

Luisa Jeffery

Head of Marketing, Track Club

Sam's experience as a CTO in so many different ways really allowed us to very quickly make decisions and then fix problems that arose. I can't even imagine the roadblocks we might have otherwise encountered.

S.D. Byock

Author, Podcast Host. Founder, Salome Institute

Sam has given the gift of seeing a future beyond technical debt and hard-to-scale monolith architecture. He provided us with a game plan to move beyond initial limitations, guidance through day-to-day development, and a long-term technical roadmap to align development efforts around for years to come.

Sarah Crisp

Head of Product, Marmoset Music

In five and a half months, we delivered a wonderful product fully rebuilt from scratch. Most importantly that product worked and it has continued to work. We’ve continued to grow and our numbers are up and to the right. Almost every week is a better week than the week before. That’s a sales effort, but we couldn’t do it without technology that is very smartly designed. Sam has just so much experience. He's intelligent and deeply kind. He supports you in getting to where you need to be. He's frank and he's clear, and I think that his honesty is a kindness as well. He is always giving you the answer that is in best support of something that will be most functional in your market or for your audience or with your technology.

Holly Hagerman

Holly Hagerman, Co-Founder & CEO, AmptUp

In working with Sam, we built a very stable high-performance platform that we can build on. The platform feels relatively future-proof. It’s been out three and a half years at this point, and it's not uncommon after such a length of time to start thinking about the next redesign because the site no longer can do some of the things that you'd want it to do, because technology changes. But I would not say that about travelportland.com at all. I'd say we still have a platform that we haven't fully exploited the capabilities of. There's nothing from a technology point of view that's stopping us doing what we want to do. That's a great place to be in after such a considerable amount of time using the platform, and Sam is definitely a big contributor to that.

Richard Tammar

Digital Architect, Travel Portland

It was an incredible project and left me in awe of Sam's versatile development capacities, technical leadership and ability to pay attention to minute details and big picture/long term strategy at the same time. He's a total legend.

Justin Sainton

President, Zao