Staff

Aaron Overton

Aaron Overton, Founder and CEO of Heatherstone, has been creating great software and developing exciting businesses for over 15 years. Three of those years he spent at Microsoft as a program manager on the team designing Microsoft Connect, an experience he credits as having honed his analytical and software development skills to a fine edge, or at least into something quite pointy.

Beyond technology, he’s published two miniature wargames spanning five books and built a manufacturing business from scratch that delivered over 150 wargaming products to markets on three continents. His game system is the basis for the community-managed WarEngine Wiki, an experiment in publishing that invites fans to contribute to the core material.

In only eight months as president of Columbia Books, a directory publishing company in Washington, DC, he turned it around from loss to profit.

He reads voraciously, writes a fair amount, hikes occasionally, and plays games whenever he can.  He’s taught Sunday School at his church and is actively involved in his son’s Cub Scout Pack as Cubmaster.

He is married with three children and they all live in Rockville, Maryland.

Recently, he blocked traffic on Montgomery Village Avenue in order to pick up two straggling Canadian goslings that hadn’t managed to keep up with their flock while crossing the street. No, really.

Read his blog here.

Tor Fredericks

You wouldn’t expect to find the next Heatherstone developer working in sales at a moving company, but then, you’d be wrong. Tor has a passion for programming, but is so outgoing and friendly that sales seemed a natural. Now he can exercise both, since all our programmers are more than happy to talk to folks.

Tor’s been vital to delivery of the large number of marketing websites we’ve been delivering since mid-2009. Except when he’s getting angry with GIMP, he’s usually diving deep into WordPress code to get sites to work and operate precisely the way our clients want them to work.

Sharing with Aaron an avid interest in gaming, the biggest danger to productivity is that a digital fight could break out at any time. You should hear him laugh long and hard after five consecutive headshots in Counterstrike.

Elizabeth Overton

Elizabeth is a talented writer and an artist with an eye for contrast and composition.  She’s a college student and part-time Heatherstone employee who contributes engaging (and search engine friendly!) content to many of our clients’ sites.  Read her blog here.

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