Alex graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 with a dual degree in Information Systems and Human Computer Interaction. Prior to working for Patch, he was building internal applications at Google. He has a strong passion for web development, as well as a deep interest in usability analysis and interaction design. His favorite two pastimes are dominoes and poker.

Alex is an artist and a frontend engineer at Patch.  On his way here he passed through the classics department of the University of Texas(age 20), studied classical piano performance with a hermit in Germany(24), worked as an archeological illustrator in Texas, and, as is the way of such things, began enthusiastically building websites at some point.  Before coming to Patch he ran his own web development consultancy in New York.  He's happy as always to be among talented people with a great project.

Aubrey Holland has been a member of the engineering team at Patch since he moved to New York from Boston in the Summer of 2008. Prior to joining Patch, he had a number of employment adventures ranging from building applications for TV meteorologists to being a house husband in Venice, Italy where his lovely wife held a teaching position. Originally from Jacksonville, Florida, his hobbies include hating the cold, cooking and beer snobbery.

Cedric is from Brooklyn, NY. He studied Comparative Literature at Trinity College, before taking the next logical step into computer programming. He's worked at Google, Razorfish and a few start-ups. He likes robots, puppies and rainbows.

George hails from Sydney, Australia, where he graduated with a Bachelors in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales.  He took to programming web sites during his tenures with various Australian companies, large and small.  In 2009, he moved to NY to be closer to his wonderful girlfriend, and to surround himself with the brilliant minds at Patch.  He enjoys programming, coffee, and programming.

Mat Brown is a software engineer from Arlington, VA. After graduating from Dartmouth College, Mat spent a year in Seattle, WA playing in a rock band, and then moved to New York City to make web sites. Before joining Patch, Mat worked as a developer at Time Out New York and a small New York web development shop. Mat's extracurricular interests include cooking, boring his radiant girlfriend with incessant talk about programming, and watching Battlestar Galactica.

Sam Cole is one of Patch's star front-end engineering team, which means that he makes things pretty and then makes them move in peculiar ways. He recently moved to New York City from upstate New York and married his gorgeous wife, which turns out are two pretty complicated maneuvers, more so then you would think. He now lives in beautiful Bed Stuy.

Born and raised in Stamford, CT, Chrissy never imagined her advanced education in suburban life would come in handy until she heard about Patch.  She graduated from UNC Chapel Hill in 2004 with degrees in music and eating barbecue, and earned a Masters in Voice from the Manhattan School of Music in 2007.  She then did what any classically-trained opera singer who wants to afford rent and food would do--she got a job doing marketing and web projects at the New York City Opera.  She currently lives in Brooklyn with her brilliant husband and their cat, and spends her free time swing dancing, skiing, and, yes, singing.

Katie received her BS in Computer Science and Art in Odessa, Ukraine. Then she and her amazing family moved to the U.S., where Katie began to look for bugs (software bugs that is!). Inspired by her beautiful daughter Lina, she grew from QA Analyst to Sr. QA Engineer enjoying finding thousands of bugs in SunGard Trading and Risk Systems, Zingy & Vindigo. Katie loves to travel. Especially in Italy where she became a fan of Vasco Rossi and Luca Toni and experienced such wonderful things as sunrise in Sorrento, sunset accompanied by live saxophone music in Portoferraio, Spritz in Caorle and a motorbike ride in Perugia!

Kelsey is a New York City transplant from Minneapolis, MN, birthplace of her fav shopping destination, Target. She went to college at Drake University in Iowa, where she got a degree in Journalism & Graphic Design and ate a lot of corn on the cob. Her web design career began at Better Homes & Gardens, and since moving to Manhattan, she has worked at CondeNast and Time Out New York. She is currently obsessed with crafting and drinking beer (at the same time), theme parties, making lists, and taking taxis.

In 2005, Marie moved to New York from Sweden for a 6 month internship building mobile websites. A lot more than six months later, she is still in New York, although with a 3 year detour to San Francisco where she co-founded a startup.  Marie is very excited to be part of the Patch team and to get to focus on building a viable business model in local journalism, this in the midst of the most evolving times ever for the industry.

Marie grew up with four brothers who taught her to enjoy both hockey, beer and skiing but her favorite hobbies also includes beach hangout, good food, reading and relaxing in general.  Marie holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Uppsala, Sweden.

Chris spent the past 4 years as an Operations Manager for GE Money in CA and then GE Commercial Finance in Boston. Prior to GE Capital, he worked for a mortgage company in Newport, RI, his home town, for 3 years. Before that he held sales positions for Oracle, Citigroup and Liberty - all in Boston. Chris graduated from Connecticut College with a BA in Literature. He is currently pursuing his MFA - Creative Writing in his spare time. 

A proud Hoosier by birth, Clare is a New York transplant by way of Cincinnati, where she got her start as a writer and editor at a trade magazine after graduating from Xavier University. She has written for a variety of publications including Cincinnati Magazine, Time Out Kids New York and New York Magazine Weddings. Few things make her happier than bad pop music and fountain Coke. Clare is super excited to be working with the extremely passionate and talented team at Patch.

Dunkin' Donuts in her hometown of Yorktown, NY was her first employer. Her diverse work history includes financial sales, crisis intervention counseling and herding cats. Most recently, she launched a website for the Department of the Interior and trained small business owners in developing countries to use the internet as a business tool. Danielle has an MBA from Columbia. 

Laura's professional experience includes stints in the entertainment, publishing, and automotive industries, to name a few.  Her interests include figure skating, reading, current events, painting / drawing, and travel, most frequently to Vegas, LA, Tahoe, and Northern Michigan.  Laura earned a BFA in Art from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!)

Meghan is originally from Upper Montclair, NJ. She has a degree in Economics from Villanova University. She interned at Google in the events and sales departments, and she also was the first and only intern at Patch until she got hired full time.

Meghan is a true beach bum at heart, you can find her down the shore most summer weekends. When she isn't catching rays you can find her going out with friends, eating Mexican, or spending time with her nephew.

Trip enjoys the following things: baseball, barbecue (that's pulled pork for the northern folks) and barbecue-ing, Phil Collins-era Genesis, yoga, the St Louis Cardinals and Tennessee Titans, paddle tennis, day trading, and brazilian jiu-jitsu, not necessarily in that order.  He hails from Nashville, TN and has a black lab named Ozzie, prominent among his photos.

He joined Patch from his previous role as an analyst in Canon USA's Strategy department and graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Operations Research and Financial Engineering.

Steve Johnson is regional editor for Patch. He previously was online editor at the AP in N.Y. He joined MSNBC.com in 1996, managing NBC News Web sites, producing the front page and writing for the special projects unit. He's been a reporter and executive producer at Court TV, editor of a daily legal paper, reporter for the Atlanta Constitution, delivery boy for the Chattanooga News-Free Press and swept floors on the overnight shift at a plant that made nuclear reactor boilers. He lives in Little Falls, N.J., with his lovely wife Linda and their two dogs and when not working, he can be found banging on a guitar and singing off-key with the North Jersey Acoustic Music Group.

You can reach me on my cell, at 917-273-8205, or at steve@patch.com.