Bill Dillon started working with Columbia Ultimate on April 17, 2006 as a database specialist in the MIS group. He was with Menlo Worldwide for the past four years working as a UNIX and database administrator. Prior to that he has been involved with UNIX and database administration with various companies here in the Northwest since 1989. After hours and weekends he enjoys fishing, mountain biking, woodwork, and home improvement. He really enjoys being here at Columbia Ultimate. It takes him about 12 minutes to get to work and the people here are wonderful. He has a lot of challenging projects in the queue and really enjoys working on them. His only regret is that he didn't land here sooner.

Chris Clark has been in sales and sales management for most of his working life. In addition to 10 years with Columbia Ultimate from 1990 to 2000, he has worked in varied sales environments with companies including Honeywell, Inc., Dotster.com and American Home Mortgage. Chris is very pleased to rejoin Columbia Ultimate as a client relations executive and feels it is a great opportunity to once again work side-by-side with some of the finest people he knows. In his spare time Chris likes to go to the movies and enjoys the performing arts, fishing, hangin' with his 16 year old son (the last of four still at home) and playing with his "kid replacements", Lucy, Jasper and Hobbs (his two black labs and golden retriever.)

Doug Gillespie is a full time student at Washington State Vancouver and is an MIS intern. He will graduate in Management Information Systems from WSUV next spring before he enters the workforce full time and begins perusing a masters program. He has been married for over three years and has two sons ages 2 and 1. Most of his spare time is spent with them, but he also enjoys participating in and watching just about any sort of athletic activity.

Jay Mejia joined Columbia Ultimate in the Custom Programming group in May and has 18 years of experience in IT working as a programmer, analyst, consultant and IT auditor. He came from The Fulfillment Corporation of America, and prior to that he worked for Cap Gemini Earnst & Young as a programmer and systems analyst. Besides working here at Columbia Ultimate Jay holds a real estate license in the state of Oregon and loves to help people but and sell homes. He also enjoys photography, hiking, traveling and working as Spanish interpreter when time allows.

Kate Fisher started working for Columbia Ultimate on April 10, 2006 as the marketing coordinator. She came here from adidas America where she worked in the Marketing department. Before adidas she worked in the Internet Marketing department for the Portland Trail Blazers. In her spare time she enjoys playing on her dodgeball and kickball teams. She enjoys wakeboarding, snowboarding and cooking.

Keith Thompson started working for Columbia Ultimate in May as an associate staging specialist. Over the past eight years he has worked for Electric Lightwave as a systems analyst. His main duties were building and maintaining Access databases and preparing (manipulating) data for ad-hoc reporting and for new systems. Before his time at Electric Lightwave he spent 4 wonderful years in the Marine Corps. Keith decided to work for Columbia Ultimate after looking for a new challenge and the feedback from the employees here was great! Outside of work Keith enjoys spending time with his family, coaching sports (since he's torn his ACL's three times), riding wave runners and enjoying his new boat for recreation and fishing.

Kory Wright started working for Columbia Ultimate in May as the director of new business development. Kory worked for Columbia Ultimate from 1988 to 1996 and has over 25 years experience in business management, sales, marketing and entrepreneurship. He came back to Columbia Ultimate because he believes in what Columbia Ultimate is about and he wanted to be a part of it. He is married and has five children and one beautiful granddaughter. Living in the mountains of Utah, his entire family loves to ski, camp, hike… just about anything outdoors.

Lala Climaco started working for Columbia Ultimate in April as a telephony client care specialist. Lala worked at Jenkon, a couple of times, before settling in at Norm Thompson for the last several years. She heard about Columbia Ultimate through the PICK world and when the opportunity for new challenges came her way, she couldn’t resist taking it and has been enjoying it ever since (almost a month, but who’s counting?). In her past time she loves to play tennis and World of Warcraft when she is not walking or cuddling with her very cute spoodle, Diego. She has two daughters and a lovely granddaughter who’s a little over 7 months old.

Lisa Wills joined the Marketing team as a programs specialist in June of 2006. Prior to joining the team, she worked as a direct marketing and research manager for KinderCare Learning Centers. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her two boys, hiking, camping, playing indoor soccer and bowling.

Lyn Hutchinson joined the RevQ team in May as a senior programmer/analyst and has been doing Pick/Unidata/Universe for 26 years. He spent the last 8 years working for Norm Thompson Outfitters as a senior programmer/analyst. He loves programming and the opportunity to help clients with their requests. He worked as a contractor for Columbia Ultimate in the past and loved the environment here. When a job became available he decided it was time to become a permanent part of the team. Lyn and his wife spend a great deal of time following their children around and supporting them. Lyn has two sons, 17 and 16, and two daughters, 13 and 10. All of his children are very active in sports, and play year round.

Mike Grady started working for RevQ in May as an associate programmer analyst. Mike has worked as a programmer for nine years. In the off hours he enjoys outdoor activities like mountain biking and camping.