When the business of life brings about challenging situations, Calvin Luttrell continues to prove his ability to respond and follow-through with steadfast execution. He credits his experience as a senior support technician at GoldMine Software for providing exposure and instilling the values that would later become the cornerstone of his business ethos: To develop and maintain an environment of mutual support and encouragement, where a team works together to achieve a common goal.

For 12 years, Calvin has faced business setbacks amidst trying times, but pushed forward through consistently creating innovative ideas for companies to survive — even after the Dot-com bust and 9-11 tragedy. During his three years at 1-800-DENTIST, he pressed executives and coached the development team to start using the .Net development in lieu of the Classic ASP platform. He also worked with his team and created a new framework for building software on the Microsoft .Net platform which was utilized companywide to track inventory, sales and customer service issues. To enhance the ability to build the next generation line of company software, Calvin personally recruited four developers to ensure the right people were added to the team to create the desired result.

 After completing the new 1-800-DENTIST internet Web site in 2004, the site saw an 100% increase in conversion. In Dr. Steven Covey's best-selling book, The 8^th Habit (an update of the best seller The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People), he states that information workers are treated with the same values as the industrial age. Despite of the successes he'd achieved so far, this statement really rang true for Calvin. At that juncture, he was wrestling with a challenging personal life while simultaneously encountering major value differences with executives at his job.

Faced with these obstacles, Calvin called a long time colleague, Alex Sheychenko, with a vision of a company where software could be developed by a well-oiled machine —without the dysfunction of present day corporate politics. Determined to apply what Dr. Covey referred to as Emotional Intelligence (character traits that determine a leader's ability to make effective decisions) to their new endeavor, Calvin and Alex founded ProjectThunder in August 2004.

As the chief executive officer, Calvin alongside Alex directs all engineering, sales and business development efforts with an unwavering commitment to deliver the highest value possible in the mid-market space for e-commerce, CRM and SharePoint solutions. True to his core values, and high principles of quality, Calvin leads the ProjectThunder team in working with clients to achieve their goals by utilizing the best resources for the job, remaining in budget and delivering within a reasonable time frame while. The design process is fundamental to succeeding where others simply don't have the tools to succeed.

 Calvin remains an avid believer that "to teach is to know," another concept from Dr. Covey he has implemented into his management style. He has published educational articles on topics including MS Office, MSMQ and .Net versions 1.1 and 2.0. When he and Alex are not coming up with the next great addition to ProjectThunder offerings, he is jokingly referred to as a Renaissance man who takes piano and vocal lessons, is an avid reader and researcher on the latest in business and health-related topics. Calvin believes the best investment you can make is the one you make in yourself and the people around you.

As a child growing up in the Ukraine, ProjectThunder co-founder Alex Sheychenko was fascinated by the role of computers in the science fiction books he read. When his family immigrated to the United States in 1994, Alex jumped at the opportunity to participate in the creation of his childhood vision of the future. He enrolled in tech trade school, and after completing his training found himself writing sales force automation tools for GoldMine Software, where he first met Calvin Luttrell.

After this journeyman period Alex applied his knowledge to the healthcare industry, writing medical billing software and other utilities for a number of companies. This work eventually brought him back into contact with Luttrell. Finding that they possessed a shared vision of the computer industry, they united to co-found ProjectThunder.com, Inc., where he currently serves as Operations Officer and manages the international stable of vendors.

Programming has always come easy to Muneeb Khan, who has been interested in creating web sites since his first days working with a computer. While living in his native Pakistan Muneeb earned a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Electrical Engineering with honors, and in 2004 relocated to southern California to complete a master’s program. By December 2005 he had earned a Master of Sciences in Computer Engineering, delivering a thesis on major compiler enhancements.

While still a student Muneeb held a position with MediaChase, where he wrote documentation for the eCF 3.1 software. After graduation, he took the position of Lead Engineer with ProjectThunder.com Inc., where he oversees major development efforts. In addition to these duties, Muneeb shepherds the customer interaction phases of development, including the company’s unique process for specializing each project to the customer’s specifications.

Muneeb believes that follow-through is one of the most crucial aspects to the e-commerce industry. He understands that it is not enough for the company to merely build a customer’s website; they must also provide the support and tools to turn that site into a thriving online business. And it is this need that, with ProjectThunder, he strives to fill.

Matt Fewtrell has always had a passion for challenges and a serious knack for handling equipment. During his childhood, he could be found breaking and repairing old radios, phones and whatever else he could get his hands on. As he continued to advance his knowledge of electronics, and the science that allows them to operate, he also reached a crossroads in his life: whether to join the United States Air Force. He chose to serve his country for a time and afterwards, when he ventured on with his life, he found that he had a newfound sense of discipline, an in-depth knowledge of electronics and high-level training that reinvigorated his passion for the field. Matt has a very unique and analytical viewpoint on how to approach problems and how to fix them and is a consummate learner. In 2008, Matt joined Project Thunder as an IT / Technical Supervisor. In this capacity, he is responsible tech support and managing partner relationships.

Based in the Philippines, Sidky Macatangay joined ProjectThunder in March 2007 as a contract programmer. In this capacity, his primary responsibility is to make sure the programming requirements of a project are met, and to provide technical support when needed. Prior to joining ProjectThunder, Sidky worked as a senior applications developer for Chiyoda Philippines Corporation, where he helped maintain and develop a number of in-house engineering applications as well as accounting procurement systems built on .NET technologies, Oracle Developer (Forms and Reports), etc. Sidky began his career in programming by doing map-based services for non-profit organizations. He has more than five years experience in developing GIS/GPS applications on a desktop, mobile and web platform. Over the years he also developed an interest in open source, from his experience working as a GIS analyst/programmer in the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines.