P. Jay Massey 

Founder, President

Jay Massey, a Ft. Walton Beach native, has been in the web site development business for over ten years and helped Found Coco Design Associates in 1994. He has the unique ability to bridge the communication gap between clients and their needs and the developers who provide the services.

Along with his duties at Coco, Jay frequently speaks to businesses and professional associations on e-commerce and internet marketing. He also donates some of his personal time and energy as executive director for Slowlane.com, an online resource, reference and network for stay-at-home fathers.
Jay is a former PC systems consultant for Invesco Funds Group in Denver, Colorado. His experiences also include working for United Parcel Service, founding Video Express, and working in radio.
His non-professional endeavors include climbing, juggling, scuba diving, skiing and mountain biking.

Jay's favorite quote is:

 "...almost the whole world's asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. ...only a few people are awake. And they live in a state of constant total amazement." - Patricia from the movie "Joe versus the Volcano"

CTO

Chris Haveard, a Pensacola native, started out producing electronic music and evolved into a life-long career in internet development, broadband development and interactive multimedia. He brings over thirteen years of audio production experience and eight years of web design/application development experience to the Coco Design team.

By establishing a mentoring relationship with fellow Coco developers, he leads our technical team by example and mutual respect. His solid leadership helps push the envelope of design, programming, art, multimedia and music for himself and our entire team.

Chris is best at conceptualization and bringing in ideas that allow Coco stay competitive and on the cutting edge.

Chris's technical skills include internet-based databases and applications incorporating Advanced ColdFusion, ASP, JavaScript, PHP, PERL, SQL and Fusebox.

Chris's favorite quote is:

"A witty saying proves nothing." ~ Voltaire

VP of Business Development

Chris wears many hats at Coco. Although Chris's main function is business development (sales). His duties include executive level management in planning, development, web graphics, site architecture, application development management, search engine optimization, customer care, collections, and internal communications.

Chris started his career as an Account Executive and Production Coordinator for digital Magic, Inc. Then Chris moved to UZ Engineering, Inc. where he acted as the District Sales Manager, his territory covered Mississippi to Panama City, Florida. Chris then formed Axiom, Inc. and later merged with PensaWorks where Chris took on the responsibilities of Vice President of Business Development, Production Coordinator, and Creative Director.

Chris's web experience ranges from Web graphics, Site Architecture, Project Management, Application Development to Search Engine Optimization. Chris has received more than 20 awards in his career for his.

Along with his many duties at Coco Chris is also very active in his community. Chris is involved in the following organizations: member, Toast Masters, member, Ambassador Committee for the Pensacola Chamber of Commerce; member, High Growth Business Club; member, Florida Public Relations Association; member, Adfed (Advertising Federation) of Northwest Florida; Membership Chair, Business Networking International; Vice President, Pensacola Leads Group.

Chris's favorite quote is:

LET"S GET REAL or Let's Not Play." - Mahan Khalsa and Franklin Covey

Lito R. Apple 

VP of Operations/ Financial Officer

Lito is charge of many things at Coco. His main job is Finances but he also helps with tech support and client services. His accuracy, concistancy and forward thinking helps him in streamlining production, and keeping all activities at Coco on budget.

Lito has experience as a Financial Analyst for the National Health Insurance, Accounting Clerk for Inter-Company Transportation, Assistant Bank Manager and Operation Specialist in the Military. Lito has been in the financial field for over 14 years and is a great asset to Coco. Lito has received much recognition from previous employers and clients for his efforts.

Lito's favorite quote is:

Wes Rogers 

Web Applications Specialist

Other than "hacking" Ruby on Rails all day long, Wes spends a good amount of time in the systems administration world. He says that "It's quite fun when everything works." Developing new products in Rails includes many other aspects other than just writing code, such as, setting up web servers, mongrel servers, and HTTP proxies.

Ever since Wes was 12, he has been interested (maybe even obsessed) in computers. And by the time he started learning HTML, he knew this was what he wanted to do. He started working professionally at age 18 for a company named OIS Media in Pensacola, FL OIS Media is responsible for pensacolajobs.com and many other job-related web sites. OIS is where Wes acquired experience in ColdFusion. After that, Wes came to Coco looking for a different field of web development. He then left Coco for a short while, to work for a local web development firm that worked for the state of Florida. At this firm, Wes' team utilized ASP.net along with Microsoft (TM). Ultimately Wes just couldn't get Coco out of his system and he came back.

Wes's favorite quote:

"Jesus saves. Buddha does incremental backups."

Dom Price

Web Applications Developer

Dom is experienced in Web Development / Actionscript / PHP / MultimediaWeb Based Programming, Database Administration, Graphic Design, Flash Design, Application Programming

Dom has a curious streak that makes him a great asset at Coco. His curiosity helps him in learning new ways to design. He has a view on things that is truly unique! His artwork can be described as very avant-garde and his programming style is described as "modular" with a "pluggable" approach.

Dom's has been punching code, doing graphics work, and building applications for about seven and a half years now. You could say that at the age of 15 Dom was "bitten by the web bug" and he started dabbling in web development. Since then he has gained experience in e-commerce, article writing, programming flash video games, graphic design, user interface design and computer programming.

Dom's technical skills include Java, C++, PHP, Perl, and Cold Fusion. Dom is continuing his web based education by gaining experience with Ruby on Rails.

Dom is a student at the University of West Florida studying for his Bachelor of Computer Science.

In Dom's Spare time he likes to play in a couple of bands, as well as, helping local bands with graphic art for their promotional DVD.

Dom's favorite quote is:

"You think so far outside the box you can't even see the box anymore" - Jay Massey to Dom

 

Tamara Childers

Director of Marketing Strategies

Tamara is, a Perdido Key native, marketing professional with experience that spans over eight years. Tamara experience ranges from promotions, large and small scale event planning/coordinating, sales, traditional marketing, Internet marketing, marketing research, presentations to advertising.

Like many associates at Coco Tamara is multi-talented and does numerous different tasks at Coco. Tamara's main function is Search Engine Optimization and Project Management, but she also helps with PR and Marketing.

Tamara got her start in the Marketing field as a Marketing Associate with Energy Services of Pensacola (ESP). At ESP Tamara's responsibilities were various. She promoted utilization of natural gas, revamped surveys of new market areas and created advertisements. Tamara then moved to New Jersey and went to work as the Logistics Management Associate for The Zitter Group. The Zitter Group does marketing research for "Big Pharmaceutical". At the Zitter Group Tamara experience ranged from event planning, meeting content materials to programming for On-line/ On-site polling technology. In 2006 Tamara moved back to Pensacola and started work as the Program and Benefit Planner for the Pensacola Chamber of Commerce. While at the Chamber Tamara planned, coordinated, promoted and implemented various events.

Outside of work Tamara takes part in many Organizations. Tamara is a member service committee member for the Pensacola Young Professionals. She also helps take part in fundraising for Relay for Life and United Way.

Tamara received her BSBA in Marketing, with a Minor in Management and a Certification in Internet Marketing from the University of West Florida in 2001.

Tamara's favorite quote:

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." - Douglas Everett