Meet Our Team

Brett Harrington

A New Orleans native currently residing in Northern Virgina and is a 100-percent tech enthusiast (read: geek, nerd, fanboy) . Brett has written for the Time Picayune, several papers in North Carolina and was an associate editor of his college newspaper. He aspires to half-ass photography, is a literary snob, and swears he understands contemporary art. He is a typical fanboy who collects comicbooks, dolls (read:collectible statues and action figures) and will debate continuity missteps in movies and cartoons.

Brett attend Saint Augustine with NewOrleansTech.net with Chris Boudy. He attended North Carolina A&T and earned degrees in Political Science and Journalism and currently works full time for the federal government. He makes regular trips to the third coast where he fulfills his duties as writer and associate editor for NewOrleans Tech.net.

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Champ Superstar

Champ is the child of a technophile/gadget geek for a father and a genius, pop culture obsessed mother. The combination of these two things produced a new media and tech loving geek who likes rock shows, films, math, Jandek and very big words.

Along with being a professional meeting-goer, Champ is the sole IT person for a small marketing firm that she is diligently and patiently ushering into the Web 2.0 age. She is certified to manage Exchange servers and several pets at once. She is currently in an awesome dual-degree program at Tulane University and plans to graduate some time before retirement age with a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, a Ph. D and a certificate in phlebotomy.

When Champ is not at school or work, she is usually involved in non-profit work for New Orleans, planning Twitter events, organizing groups and communities, or traveling to attend shows of obscure musicians. She plans to live the rest of her life in New Orleans and do everything in her power to promote its essential goodness.

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Chris Boudy

Chris’ love for technology started when he was six and now has blossomed into passion. He’s worked in the web development field for seven years helping start-ups and large organizations develop web strategies and implementing large scale website projects. He holds a bachelor of science in Computer Information Systems and is currently working on a M.B.A with a specialization in Information Technology.

In 2009, Chris and a group of colleagues started NewOrleans Tech.Net which is a local technology news source within the city of New Orleans. There organization covers local tech news, hosts a bi-weekly podcast, and also supports tech based community outreach. He also write for other local websites (GoNola and Good News NOLA) where he discusses gadgets, social media, and new technology developments. On Fridays, Chris hosts a bi-weekly technology segment on LaunchPad TV where he talks about hyperlocal tech news and give commentary on other tech happenings. Currently he serves on the board for NetSquared New Orleans which is the nucleus for the technology community in New Orleans.

His other claims to fame are being apart of the SXSW New Orleans speaker panel: Uprising Tide – Inciting Online Communities into Offline Movements, co-organizing one of the largest technology events in the city: IgniteNOLA, and has the honor of winning the Iron Geek Champion 2010 in Austin, TX.

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Liz Money

Liz is still working on her bio.

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Shercole King

Shercole currently serves as an consultant for nonprofit organizations and small businesses in marketing, social media, web design and business planning. She is a resident of New Orleans and is devoted to helping in the efforts to see the city grow through community action, nonprofit organizations, small business development, technology and education. Shercole holds a M.A. in Arts Administration and a B.B.A. in Management, while currently studying Web Design. She is the founder of Minority Weirdos and Good Nola, a online news source for everything positive New Orleans. Shercole also writes for Gimme That Glow and Humid Beings.