Meet Some of Our Team

Karen Kratz, President/Programmer/Designer
When not playing with her dogs or hiking, the boss enjoys saving turtles from becoming the byproduct of turtle-meets-auto.

Karen has been developing websites since 1991 and has attended college for programming courses in JavaScript and ColdFusion. She picked up some CSS skills along the way. When not running the office, she utilizes DreamWeaver (what self-respecting designer doesn't?) and many of the Adobe products for web design. She creates graphics and logos and hard-codes using Arachnophilia.

She has served on several boards of directors and is past President of the Lillington Chamber of Commerce. She spends her "spare" time keeping busy as President of her Rotary Club.

Kiersten "Kaye" Barnes, Vice President/Senior Designer/SEO
Being born under the sign of Sagittarius guaranteed a life-long addiction to horses that became evident when, at a young age Kaye began riding the family St. Bernard.

Kaye took Computer Sciences program courses in Florida, including hardware, networking, VB programming,
and the Microsoft Office suite. Her first computer related job at KSA Advertising (1998) is where she honed her HTML and graphics skills. Since joining Roaring Aardvark in 2004 Kaye has expanded her skills in website development, SEO, graphics and video media.

When not in the Aardvark Den, Kaye can be found at her 'Starting Point Stables' working on her own website, or shoveling horse !%*& to the sounds of her favorite movie soundtracks.

Paula Hoffman, Office Manager
Paula enjoys time with her family; husband Larry and daughters Skye, Madira and Sierra on their ranch where they raise ponies.

She started work with Roaring Aardvark Web Design in 2005 as an assistant, and then was promoted to Office Manager.

Paula has been helping us managing websites for a few years now and she is also considered our Emperess of Emails as she manages all of our clients' email accounts as well. She is continuing her education in Dream Weaver, Photoshop CS and now learning raw HTML. Paula's picture should have a halo on it - she has the patience of a saint!

 

Other Professionals We Think You'll Like

Tom Chapman, Harnett Computer Services
Tom moved in across from us on Front Street about a year ago. He's a wizard at fixing computers, networking and security. If you need some help, he's your man.

Amy Avery, AveryWrites
We met Amy at a business expo and checked out her work. She has a talented team of professional writers and marketing communications practitioners with over 25 years' combined experience working alongside web developers and small businesses, as well as government, education, and healthcare clients. We referred Amy to a friend at the Harnett County Economic office and were told later that AveryWrites was fantastic to work with and had saved that office both time and money. Since then we have not hesitated to refer Amy's office to our clients.