Josh graduated Cum Laude from Texas A&M University in 2000. While in college, he was formed and shaped by the outstanding ministry of St. Mary’s Catholic Center. After college, Josh served as a youth minister and music minister for 4 years at two different Catholic parishes.

While working in the Church, he started designing websites on the side in 2003 to generate extra income for his growing family. In 2004, he shifted his focus to website development (online software) and developed many custom applications, including the real-time scoring system for the NBA’s Vegas Summer League (which was eventually taken over by NBA.com).

In 2005, Josh left his position at the parish to pursue website development full-time. In Advent 2005, he released the original version of eCatholic and signed on a few “beta” parishes. In early 2006, eCatholic began to gain momentum and started to spread to parishes around the country. Twelve years later, eCatholic has become the leader and the largest provider of beautiful, dynamic Catholic websites in the country.

Josh is also one of the founders and speakers of the popular Digital Church Conference - A One-Day Guide to Catholic New Media and the New Evangelization. Together with Brandon Vogt and Matt Warner, Josh helps inspire and empower Catholic dioceses, parishes, and schools to effectively use new media to communicate and evangelize.

Josh and his wife Elizabeth were married in 2002 and live in Austin, TX. They are proud parents of 6 beautiful children (one that is now interceding in Heaven). Josh is a basketball fanatic and still trains, plays, and coaches competitively. He is also an avid golfer and musician.
 

Jason is a native Texan, born in Galveston, Texas, raised in Victoria, Texas and currently living in Austin, Texas. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the University of Texas. Degrees aside, his loyalty is 100% to Texas A&M.

After graduating from Texas A&M in 1998, Jason spent two years working for Accenture as a software developer. Quickly realizing his passion was in startups, Jason left to go work for a Silicon Valley startup. This was the beginning of his journey as an entrepreneur, where he held numerous roles in sales, product management and marketing, before co-founding his own company, Apptive, in 2011. Throughout his career, Jason has had the opportunity to work across multiple disciplines including cloud computing, IoT, mobile, security, social media, web hosting and SaaS.

During his time at Apptive, Jason met Josh Simmons and the two formed a friendship that culminated in Jason joining the eCatholic team at the end of 2018. Jason has always been passionate about serving the Catholic Church and his role at eCatholic allows him to achieve this passion professionally.

Jason and his wife, Megan, were married in 1999 and are the proud parents of 3 beautiful children. In his free time, you will find Jason riding his road bike or with Megan cheering on their sons at football and baseball games and their daughter at volleyball games and dance.

Joe was born and raised in Stamford, Texas and moved to Amarillo to attend college at West Texas A&M University. He began working for the Catholic Diocese of Amarillo while still in college and served as the Director of Technology for the diocese for 7 years.

While living in Amarillo, Joe helped St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church create, coordinate and build a state-of-the art youth room controlled entirely from a tablet. He also helped organize Amarillo’s first active Catholic young adult group.

In August 2013, Joe transitioned from one Catholic organization to another by joining the eCatholic team as our Director of Sales & Marketing. With years of diocesan experience and expertise in technology, Joe understands the needs and struggles of Catholic parishes, schools, and dioceses and is passionate about helping them communicate, evangelize, and catechize more effectively through the use of new media.

Joe has a passion for photography and capturing God’s beautiful creation and his photos have been used by National Geographic and The Weather Channel. Joe also has an associate degree in Graphic Design and speaks four languages - English, Spanish, Italian, and German.

Joe was married in March 2014 and he and his wife Sara make their home in Amarillo, Texas.

Luke is a happy guy from Minnesota, who now lives in Lafayette, Louisiana with his wife Kelli and three children, Mark, Avelina and Emma. He graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville in 2012 with a Bachelors in Theology and minors in business and history. He has a special place in his heart for the country of Austria, where he studied abroad during his junior year of college. He took that opportunity to broaden his worldview and travel to different countries.

Luke is thankful for his childhood experiences with a big, loving Catholic family, a church parish filled with the Holy Spirit, and mission trips that all influenced who he is today. Luke enjoys spending time with his family, drinking coffee and eating chocolate. In his free time likes to play disc golf and catch up on sports news, especially his beloved Minnesota sports teams.

Luke joined the eCatholic team in early 2016 to provide dedicated service and support to Diocesan Initiatives. If you get a chance to speak with Luke, you'll find that he is easy to talk with and has a real gift for customer service. Luke loves working with parishes, schools and ministries to help them reach that “aha!” moment when they realize that they really can manage a new, dynamic website and use it to communicate and evangelize.

Luke was born and raised in New Jersey, but he calls Michigan home. He graduated from Franciscan University with a degree in Theology. From there, he went on to work for a small Catholic college in Michigan, which eventually brought him to Ave Maria University in Florida. He spent nearly 10 years at Ave Maria as the Director of Residence Life and the Associate Dean of Students. During his time there, he attended the Institute of Pastoral Theology to earn his Masters Degree in Pastoral Theology.

From there, Luke worked as a sales consultant for Thomson Reuters and is excited to use his experience to help Catholic organizations develop their web presence and fulfill their mission of evangelization.

Luke and his family (wife Anna, five children, plus several chickens) currently live in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area. They have always enjoyed the outdoors and the beauty of the seasons (especially winter... Luke LOVES snow!).

In his free time, Luke likes to play the guitar, catch up on the latest sports (especially the Philadelphia Eagles), or just be outside fishing, skiing, working on a garden...really anything!

Nicole graduated from Texas A&M University in 2020 with a degree in Recreation, Park & Tourism Sciences, and a minor in Business. During her time as a student, she was involved in several ministries at St. Mary’s Catholic Center and was greatly impacted by the formation she received. She had the joy of serving the St. Mary’s community as a campus ministry intern during her senior year, which inspired her to work with the church after graduation.

Nicole began working full-time for eCatholic in May of 2020 and has enjoyed every moment of her new job. In her free time, she loves drinking a great cup of coffee, exploring new places, and spending time with friends and family.

As an Air Force brat, Natalie grew up in Florida, Texas, Virginia, and Georgia, but Texas is her true home. She attended Catholic Schools throughout her childhood, and her faith was further fostered by the wonderful culture at St. Mary's Catholic Student Center at Texas A&M, where she was active in the Music ministry as a member of the Women's Chorus. Natalie graduated Magna Cum Laude from Texas A&M University in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and a minor in Music, and married her Aggie sweetheart, Austin, in 2011.

After obtaining a Master's degree in Computer Information Systems from the University of Houston - Victoria, Natalie joined the eCatholic team in August 2014. At eCatholic, Natalie knows that an attractive and informative website is an important part of modern evangelization, and loves to help our customers discover how easy -- and fun! -- it can be to create a beautiful website.

Natalie lives in McAllen, Texas, and enjoys playing the piano, crafts, cooking, and casual bird watching. She and Austin have been blessed with two beautiful children.

Anne is originally from Little Rock, Arkansas but came to Texas to attend Texas A&M University, where she graduated in 2001. She married Jeff at St. Mary's Catholic Church in College Station. After graduating, Jeff joined the Army as a 2nd Lieutenant and they were stationed in Fort Sill, Oklahoma and then in Fort Hood, Texas.

During Jeff's second deployment to Iraq, Anne moved down to Shiner, Texas with their two daughters to be closer to family. Anne began working at St. Joseph Catholic School in Yoakum as a junior high math and technology teacher. Once Jeff returned home from overseas, he joined the family in Shiner. Over the past 10 years, Anne has worked in various teaching, coaching, and administrative positions at Shiner Catholic School.

The entire family is very active at Saints Cyril and Methodius parish and the community of Shiner. Anne and Jeff have both served on the Pastoral Council, multiple ACTS Retreat teams, and as adult leaders for the Confirmation Retreat at the parish for the past 7 years. The family loves to travel to random Texas towns, attend as many Aggie football games as possible, and enjoy the country lifestyle with family and friends.

Anne joined the eCatholic team in 2015 to help launch, promote, and support eCatholic's new online donations and payments platform - eCatholic Payments.

Doug grew up with his 12 siblings in the natural paradise of June Lake, California. He graduated Cum Laude and with Honors from the Franciscan University of Steubenville with a Bachelors Degree in Philosophy. After spending a short time of discernment at St. Michael's Nobertine Abbey in California, he decided to pack up and move to Texas where he has lived ever since. He has been very active in parish life serving as part of the RCIA team, RE catechist, Ask A Catholic A Question volunteer, 40 Days for Life volunteer and various other ministries.

Doug joined up with eCatholic in 2008 as our Senior Happiness Engineer (customer support). He has guided many clients through the process of creating their websites and has spent countless hours giving webinars.

Doug was married on August 27, 2011 and he and his wife Molly make their home in Denison, Texas. They have two children (ages 3 and 1) and are hoping for more!

Cindy was raised in the small town of Glenburn, ME and enjoyed a loving and happy childhood.  Coming from a large Catholic French-Canadian extended family with over 60 cousins between both sides of the family, Cindy particularly enjoyed the large Christmas gatherings growing up, especially when the entire family of 50+ people slept under one roof!  Cindy is a Magna Cum Laude graduate from a Sisters of Mercy college, Trinity College of Vermont, where she studied Business Administration, Psychology and French before moving to Boston for 8 years where she met her husband, Justin. After having two sons, Gabriel and Isaac, Cindy and her family moved back to Maine, settling in the vibrant city of Portland.

The entire family is very active in their parish. Cindy serves as Eucharistic Minister along with her altar-serving boys and Justin is an active member of the Knights of Columbus. In addition, Cindy is the Chair of the Pastoral Council for Our Lady of Hope Parish and she and her husband participate in the Marriage Preparation Ministry as their busy schedules allow. In her spare time, she enjoys supporting her very active boys on the soccer field, basketball court, or at the track!

Cindy brings a wealth of experience from a variety of for-profit and non-profit organizations which includes project management for Fortune 500 companies in sales and leadership training, sales and marketing for a Maine apple products company, operations and development for several non-profits in southern Maine, program coordination for a non-profit basketball organization, and most recently as the Donor Relations Coordinator at The Presence Radio Network. An avid volunteer in her community, Cindy has shared her professional talents with Our Lady of Hope Parish, St. Brigid School, YES! Basketball, and PAYSA as the former Recreation and Travel Soccer Director.

Cindy, a former eCatholic client who saw the great value in the software and loved the team she worked with, joined the eCatholic team in April 2016 as a Happiness Engineer and Custom Design Coordinator.

Karen Lackey was born and raised in Dayton, OH, and is the youngest of nine children. Growing up in a large Catholic family, she learned the importance of her faith in daily life. Karen attended Catholic schools from grades K-12 including Chaminade-Julienne Catholic High School, where 5 generations of her family have attended. She went on to attend the University of Oklahoma on an athletic scholarship and enjoyed the opportunity collegiate volleyball gave her to meet great people and travel all around the country. One of her favorite college road trips was playing in Anchorage, AK, where the whole team got sea sick halibut fishing.

After graduating from OU, Karen moved to Columbus, OH, where she has resided ever since. Karen got married in 2003 to Dennis and they enjoyed their honeymoon in New Zealand and Australia.

Karen worked in the IT industry for about 10 years - including roles in writing software, project management, and business development - until beginning a family. She and Dennis welcomed their first set of twins in 2005, their second set of twins in 2006, and finally a singleton in 2010. Karen went back to work in 2015 for her home parish, working on the parish website, Safe Environment, and Stewardship. She enjoys being able to help her parish and the school where her five kids attend.

Karen was excited to join the eCatholic team in October 2017. She attended a Digital Church Conference in 2014 and was impressed by the company's ability to combine two of her passions - the Church and technology. She loves helping other Catholic parishes benefit from eCatholic's technology and phenomenal service.

Natalie was born and raised in sunny Southern California, where she currently lives. She holds a B.A. in communications and a minor in political science from California State University, Dominguez Hills. She spent the last 10 years doing marketing, social media and public relations work at consumer goods and nonprofit organizations in Orange County.

Natalie has been active in youth and young adult ministry, which has included serving as activities chair for a local young adults group and being a member of the Legion of Mary. She is excited to be a part of the eCatholic team and whole heartedly believes in its mission to help the Church evangelize through digital communication.

Natalie married her husband Josh in 2011 and have been blessed with three beautiful children. They enjoy cheering for their favorite sports team including the USA and LA Galaxy soccer teams, spending time outdoors, and being with friends and family.

In her free time, you can find Natalie crafting, watching sci-fi or British TV period dramas, and sipping her favorite blends of tea.

Abbey was born and raised in Bismarck, North Dakota where she currently lives. She is grateful to have grown up surrounded by rich experiences of faith in her family and community. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Mary (Bismarck) in 2013 with Bachelors Degrees in English and Catholic Studies. Her time at the University of Mary included studying abroad in Rome, an experience she is grateful for and that has left her with a deeper love for traveling, beautiful churches, and her faith.

She married her husband, Derrick, in August of 2013 and began working as the Executive Assistant to the Bishop at the Diocese of Bismarck in June of that year. Abbey and Derrick have three sons: Dominic, William, and Leo. 

Abbey enjoys keeping up with her active boys and being with family and friends. Her favorites include reading, coffee (former barista herself!), wine, leisurely walks, puzzles, and Jane Austen-type movies.

Abbey was first introduced to the eCatholic during her time at the Diocese of Bismarck, and she is excited to have joined the team in October 2017!

Sarah was born and raised in the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, where she spent most of her youth attending as many concerts as she could with her two sisters. She is a Seton Home Study graduate and is currently a Phi Theta Kappa Honor Student working on her BA in English and a Minor in Marriage and Family Therapy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

In 2010, Sarah fell in love with a boy in a band - a musician she met at church. By 2013, Vincent and Sarah were married and have been welcoming children ever since, with one in Heaven and two in their arms.

Sarah manages the social media content for a Las Vegas young adult ministry called Cor Jesu Ministries. Serving on the Core Team, Sarah works alongside other team members to encourage young adults to connect to the faith of the Church through nourishing their relationship with God.

A self-described bookaholic, Sarah spends her free time collecting books to "one day read," scanning cooking blogs for new recipes to test, and sipping Matcha green tea. She is excited to have joined the eCatholic team in October 2017!

Michael came to College Station in 2005 to study Computer Science at Texas A&M University and he hasn’t left since. He now lives south of town with his wife, Erin, and their four children, Gabriel, Mary Clare, Julian, and Blaise. He collects hobbies as a hobby, but his favorites are playing board games, making electronic music, and reading. He also travels throughout the Brazos Valley with the Brazos Valley Schola Cantorum, a Gregorian chant choir whose mission is to keep the beauty of sacred music alive in the Church.

Before coming to eCatholic, Michael worked for the Texas Center for Applied Technology, an applied research center under the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station. He supported simulation software for a first responder training course, and contributed to an information collection and aggregation software suite, which collects biosurveillance data, tracks animal disease progression and transmission, and helps to maintain business continuity for the agricultural industry. He also served as a Signal Officer in the Texas Army National Guard with the 1st Squadron of the 124th Cavalry Regiment stationed in Waco, Texas. The regiment provides reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition capabilities to their higher headquarters and sister units.

Michael is passionate about using technology and new media to evangelize the world. He takes great joy in teaching and sharing knowledge, and even greater joy in watching people become life-long learners; he hopes to share this joy through his work with eCatholic.

Jonathan was born and raised in College Station, Texas where he still lives with his lovely wife Rachel. He is a proud member of the Fightin' Texas Aggie Class of 2017 at Texas A&M University where he received both an undergraduate and Master's degree in Computer Science. His favorite hobbies include reading, programming, singing, and playing piano. Jonathan and Rachel were blessed to welcome their first child, Ruth, into the world in spring 2019.

Jonathan's involvement with eCatholic started in the fall of 2013 as a part-time CSS Web Developer. Concurrent with his college education, Jonathan transitioned from the role of CSS Web Developer to a regular Web Developer. In Summer of 2017, Jonathan became a full-time Software Developer for eCatholic and now primarily works on exciting new features for the eCatholic platform.

Natalie was born in Baltimore, Maryland and lived in California before moving to College Station. She is the second oldest of nine children and feels very blessed to have grown up in a large, Catholic family. Natalie met her husband, Jonathan, in the music ministry at St. Mary's Catholic Center, where they were married a few years later in August of 2017. 

Natalie graduated Magna Cum Laude from the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University with a degree in Computer Science in December of 2017. Natalie and her husband live in Austin, Texas, and spend their time sharing their hobbies with each other. They love cooking, crafting, spending time outdoors, and making music. The have one daughter on earth and two in Heaven.

Natalie joined the eCatholic team in June of 2014 as an intern and transitioned to a full-time Software Developer in January of 2018.

Seton was born and raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she attended her parish school, St. Thomas More, from prekindergarten through middle school and then Cardinal Gibbons Catholic High School in Raleigh. She credits these years of outstanding Catholic education with helping to cultivate her love of the Catholic faith and Church history, literature and the English language, music, and dramatic arts.

At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Seton was a North Carolina Teaching Fellow, graduating in 2012 with a major in English and minors in history and dramaturgy. After earning a Master’s in Teaching at UNC, she taught high school English for four years before exploring ways in which her love of language, syntax, and linguistics might translate to a career in technology. She soon decided to make the leap from teaching to web development and feels very blessed to have joined an organization that so perfectly embodies her personal, spiritual, and professional ideals.

Seton and her husband, Aaron, met when they were both high school volunteers at their parish Vacation Bible School, leading the drama team and performing daily skits for the young campers. After college, they were married at St. Thomas More and continue to call Chapel Hill home. Aaron was also a North Carolina Teaching Fellow and is currently a high school history teacher.

Seton enjoys reading, watching and discussing films, hiking and camping, and rooting for the Tar Heels. She joined the eCatholic team in October 2017.

Kristen was born in Louisiana and grew up in the Midwest and Texas. She is a Summa Cum Laude graduate from University of North Texas with her degree in Technology and Performance Improvement. She has been able to share her technology expertise for 4 years at the local school district as technology support and training. She has also spent her time offering web site services to a non-profit pro-life organization and various graphic design projects.

Kristen feels fortunate to have had a Catholic upbringing and can now pass on the faith to her own family. She married her husband, David, in 2008 and resides in San Antonio. They have been blessed with their daughter, Keira, and two fur babies, Brinkley and Bella. Her hobbies outside of work include competitive bowling, DIY projects around the house, taking her dogs out for walks, and spending time with family and friends.

Kristen is very thankful to be part of the eCatholic team and the ability to serve the Catholic community.

Amy was born in Hong Kong and together with her family, immigrated to Vancouver, Canada at a young age. After graduating from the University of British Columbia with a degree in Chemistry, Amy decided to pursue her love of design and completed a New Media program at the Vancouver Film School. Her first design job involved assisting her campus chaplain at St. Mark's College to create engaging brochures and a website.

In her home parish of St. Francis Xavier, Amy has served as a leader for youth ministry Edge and Life Teen programs since 2005. Amy and her husband, Albert are blessed with two girls, Alison and Ashley. Amy loves to draw and craft with her children whenever possible and created SaintlyTees.com to tie her faith and her love of illustrating together.

Amy had been searching for a way to serve the Catholic Church more directly with her design skills and was excited to join the eCatholic team in April 2015. She looks forward to modernizing the design scape of Catholic diocese, parish and school websites.

Matthew operates his eCatholic office from Bismarck, ND, where he was born and raised. He graduated summa cum laude from North Dakota State University (home of the Bison!) in 2011 with a degree in communications and an emphasis in television broadcasting. He has worked as interim sports director at a local television station, as an audio/video editor for a private advertising agency, and as Director of Communications for the Diocese of Bismarck, where he also served as editor of the diocesan newspaper.

While in this role, he inherited an outdated, expensive, and frustrating diocesan website. Fortunately, he found eCatholic, which helped him launch a new site...and the rest is history. The diocese's eCatholic website became the launching pad for all of its successful digital media endeavors, and Matthew is poised to help more Catholic organizations do the same.

Matthew is a passionate videographer and writer who seeks to inspire others and evangelize with his work. In his spare time he enjoys making videos, running (he has one full marathon and two half marathons under his belt), and watching the Minnesota Vikings. He married his beautiful wife, Stephanie, in 2012, and the couple has been blessed with four children: Elijah, Lucy, Joseph and Thomas.

Katie was born and raised in sunny Florida, and grew up between Orlando and Tallahassee. She attended the Florida State University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English: Editing, Writing & Media. Upon graduating from college, Katie gave a year of service in campus ministry to The Catholic Center at Rutgers University, where she quickly fell in love with the place and people. After her year of service was over, she decided to put down roots and stay in the Central New Jersey area for good.

After being an eCatholic user for over seven years, Katie joined the eCatholic family in the beginning of 2020 on the marketing team. In her free time, Katie is an avid puzzler (jigsaw and crossword), podcast listener and joyfully serves the vibrant young adult community at her parish. She currently lives in the New Brunswick area and is passionate about good coffee, engaging books, and spending quality time with quality people.

“And yes,” she affirms, “Central Jersey DOES exist.”

Originally from Michigan, this Hoosier in Indiana graduated from Grand Valley State University and began her career as a public relations and donor program manager for a nationally recognized non-profit. It wasn't long when Diane decided to deepen her Indiana roots as a communications director for a local parish. There she realized how much well-integrated communication tools can have a tremendous impact on promoting stewardship. Of course, one of the easiest ways to help share about God's great work in action is with an effective website - and that's when she got to know eCatholic.

Armed with experience and passion, Diane continued using eCatholic products to transform how organizations connected with their communities. In 2017, she joined the eCatholic team and now helps dioceses transition from their former websites to the eCatholic experience.

Outside of work, Diane is busy keeping up with her two kids and spending time with her husband, family and friends. She enjoys traveling, biking, painting on canvas, and trying her skills (and patience) with new food recipes.

Lisa was born in Laredo, Texas and grew up in the beautiful hill country of Boerne, TX. She graduated from Texas A&M University in 1991 with a degree in Speech Communication. Lisa went to work for The Association of Former Students planning class reunions and working with A&M Clubs for 3 years. She then left to become the Executive Administrative Assistant to the President of the Texas A&M Foundation.

In 1998, Lisa married Porter Garner and has been a dedicated full-time mother and wife for the past 15 years. She is passionate about her faith, her family, Texas A&M, and serving others. She is also a life-long animal lover.

Lisa joined the eCatholic team in January 2014 and she lives in College Station, Texas with her husband Porter and their three children.