@bmess – Brian Messenlehner is a co-founder of WebDevStudios (the best WordPress development shop on this planet). He specializes in custom WordPress/BuddyPress development and creating active online communities for the various organizations WDS works with. Brian is also a co-organizer of the New Jersey WordPress Meetup Group. Prior to working with open source Brian was a web application developer for the United States Marine Corps where he had a lot of experience building robust custom applications from the ground up, he now prefers open source and utilizes WordPress as an application framework to slash timelines and costs. When Brian isn’t going blind sitting it front of his computer (from looking at code he swears) he is hanging out with his wife and 2 kids and trying to teach them all about the internets.