Bruce Linde

5 Happiness Webmaster founder Bruce Linde brings a breadth and depth of web project knowledge and experience to the table.

Bruce's technical leadership skills are based on first-hand experience with all of the various disciplines and processes required to create an effective web presence, from designer to developer, stakeholder to back-end coder, production resource to team leader.

His cross-discipline strengths allow him to work directly and effectively with designers, programmers, stakeholders, and other key project resources... making him a truly unique and invaluable resource for any web project; USWeb nicknamed him "the cleaner" for repeated rescues of troubled projects and turnarounds of unhappy clients.

Jay Webster

Over the last 14 years, Jay Webster has developed a successful career as an executive, consultant, scientist, and entrepreneur. In 1988, Mr. Webster joined Sun Microsystems, as an engineer in cross-platform networking.

Mr. Webster has particular expertise in systems architecture, software design and analysis, product development, and quality assurance. During his career as a consultant, Mr. Webster has provided services for a vast number of companies in a wide variety of vertical industries. They include: TeleTV, Chiron Corporation, Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, Pacific Telesis, Active Software (now webMethods), American Airlines, Bristol Meyer Squibb, Inktomi, Diamond Multimedia, Softbook Press, DevX, Williams Sonoma, Industry to Industry, Informix, Kaiser Permanente, AllData, and Visa. Mr. Webster has served in the CTO role for several companies including iWear Corporation, Cybernautics, and Liquid Thinking. He has held the position of Managing Partner at USWeb/CKS and Liquid Thinking.

Mr. Webster serves on the advisory boards of Composite Software, Seriwon Networks, and Pivx Solutions. He also serves as a teacher and mentor to high school students in computer science, biology, and physics.

Paul Butler

Paul Butler began his career as a graduate student at the University of Memphis, designing software for use in the study of cognitive-neuropsychology, mapping cognitive function to neural structures. During that time Mr. Butler helped to found the Institute for Intelligent Systems, an interdisciplinary group for the study of intelligent systems and abstract information technologies, as well as authoring and co-authoring numerous publications. This work helped prepare Mr. Butler for his next challenge, re-architecting Federal Express's data systems from a centralized mainframe to a 3-tier, heterogeneous network of clients and servers spread across the United States and Europe.

While at Federal Express, Mr. Butler introduced its first Java application for tracking packages. Mr. Butler left Federal Express to join a small consulting firm where he honed his programming skills on multiple platforms and programming languages. Mr. Butler has worked with a number of technology and start-up companies, including Sun Microsystems, PowerTV, iMonitoring.com, and Dotcast, Inc., specializing in merging back office business systems with web technologies.