About Us

HomeSpun Executive Websites of Portland, Oregon works with corporations and agencies who want a highly qualified long term IT partner to manage their websites and online marketing.

Our team of dedicated designers, programmers, writers, SEO specialists and project managers work quickly and efficiently to provide exemplary, cost-effective results. HomeSpun Executive Websites has earned a dedicated following, and our continued influx of referrals is an indicator of our success. For this, we are both thankful, and inspired. We set the bar high, and aren’t deterred by projects that require extended efforts.

A well-conceived website is the first step in a successful business strategy. Before we start any project, we work with you to carefully detail all of your requirements, plus additional items we know you need to reach your goals. We perform all of the necessary research to fully understand your industry or trade and develop a long term strategy that ensures you competitive placement. We communicate with you daily on projects and provide weekly reports on all progress. Our team is efficient, resourceful, and ready to meet challenges. With these processes in place, we confidently guarantee your satisfaction.

The Final Spin

Our success depends on your success. Each member of our staff is dedicated to producing results, which along with justifying your investment also gives us a deep sense of personal satisfaction.

The more we know about your business and your goals, the more we can successfully meet your expectations and help to reach those goals.

Whether straight-forward or down-right challenging, we welcome the chance to make your company’s presence on the World Wide Web attractive, enticing and profitable.

HomeSpun Executive Websites is ready to spin your business in the right direction!

Our Team

Portland, Oregon is known as a progressive, forward thinking city. At HomeSpun Executive Websites, we’re lucky to tap into this uniquely creative talent of developers and designers of the Northwest. Our immensely qualified team has one mission in mind: to design the website and software that will support the longevity of your business.

Cherie Collins, President

Cherie Collins is an Internet entrepreneur who started her first Internet business in 1996. Web Vacations.net, a directory of vacation rentals, represented more than 50,000 rentals at the time of its 1998 merger with www.BetterWorldClub.com. In 2000, Cherie joined the team of WebAccommodate where she built an online electronic distribution service for vacation rentals. In 2003, Cherie was asked to join the team at Yellow Pages Travel (a subsidiary of YellowPages.com). Within a year, Yellow Pages Travel sold to SBC-Bell South for $13 Million.

In 2005, Cherie partnered with the team from Yellow Pages Travel to build the popular vacation rental listing service www.AlwaysOnVacation.com, which now has more than 100,000 listings.

In January of 2007, Cherie started HomeSpun Websites, with a mission to empower small business owners with websites they can build and manage. Cherie has a BA in Communication from Santa Clara University and worked as a journalist for several years before starting a career in the internet.

Jeff Bailey, CTO

For the last 12 years, Jeff Bailey has run a small business offering graphic design and web development services.

Mr. Bailey is a rare type of developer who is both a highly creative graphic designer and analytical database architect and programmer. His resume website at www.jreyven.com speaks for the creativity of his graphic design work. In 2002, he won the Nevada Governor’s award in design for Museum displays designed while working as the lead advertising designer at Lexicon Visual Marketing.

He has extensive knowledge and use of Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign on both Windows and Macintosh OS. He is an expert in all phases of design, from marketing research, to final output for press and web. He is experienced in website design and maintenance with Dreamweaver CS3, hand-coded XHTML, and Javascript. He also has expertise in interactive dynamic website design and development using PHP, ASP and MySQL databases, as we as search engine optimization web techniques.

Gina Cavellini, Project Manager

Gina Cavellini is the creator of Portland’s social networking website, CurbsidePDX.com. She manages a monthly Portland newsletter for Curbside that includes band and artist of the month, as well as a growing Art Walk in SE Portland for West Tabor Village. Since 1999, Gina has written and worked on popular websites and zines such as The Girl Power Project. Gina has a Master Degree in Counseling Psychology and graduated from Portland State.

 

Shad Downey, Lead Developer

Bradley Timm, Account Executive

Michael Chase, Account Executive

Mustafa Motiwala, Web Designer

Julia Silberman, Videographer

Cyndee Mady, Content Writer

Jessica Geil, Content Writer