Likes lightning
Hates floppies
Stevan Fickus
Partner | Director of Development
Stevan has been part of Vim from the beginning and has preformed many roles during the company’s growth, front-end web developer, content management systems integrator, project manager and over multi-hat wearer to name a few. He has more than five years of web development and consultation experience. He has designed and maintained websites for small businesses, universities and large corporations.
Steve is an accomplished martial artist and Mixed Martial Arts enthusiast. He serves as a counter to many of his training partners and hopes to one day get a chance to get in the ring. Steve attended the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), where he received a Bachelor of Science in Digital Communications.
Loves bass
Hates Dander
Panayiotis Karabetis
Partner | Director of User Experience
With humble beginnings building small computer systems, Pete’s love for planning and arranging information led him to his Bachelor of Visual Design & Communication from the UMBC where he graduated top of his class with honors. He has enjoyed the Internet since its early days before the web and has ridden the wave ever since!
His strategy efforts focus on developing goal-oriented prototypes for web, mobile, and desktop applications that save time and money and aid in the design and development phases of the creative process.
Pete experiences the business- and consumer-side of the web industry and his perspective from both sides of the project table foster balanced solutions for clients and their target audiences. In his spare time, Pete can be found playing his bass guitar or cooking delicious Greek food.
Loves pizza (yummy!)
Hates gray skies
Oykun Yilmaz
Creative Director
Oykun serves as our Creative Director and lead web/mobile designer. Having a clean, minimalist design style with the desire to make every pixel as detailed as possible, Oykun has produced some of the web and mobile’s most amazing designs. His designs have been recognized across the globe and have been featured in 75+ web and print publications.
Prior to becoming an exception designer, Oykun was a backend developer who built on both PHP and ASP as well as his own custom built content management system based on the CodeIgnitor framework. His passion for the arts resulted in leaving the development side for a much more creative, artistic side where he finds himself inspired by all his surroundings, pushing his creative “angels”, and most happy and relaxed.
Loves tinkering
Hates Photoshop
Jerry Price
Lead Developer
After buying his first PHP 4.1 many years ago, Jerry developed a love for coding. It still is growing day by day. Jerry serves as the lead developer at Vim bringing nearly 10 years of PHP and CodeIgnitor expertise making him extremely talented when it comes to creating custom software for ExpressionEngine, integrating various APIs, and more. Clients are continually impressed and have made multiple remarks about not having any issue that Jerry can’t figure out. Prior to joining Vim in 2011, Jerry held various positions as a developer. Most notably, his five years at VISA.
When he’s not spending time building the next piece of software or integrating a complex piece of code, he enjoys spending time with his lovely wife and children and building and customizing PC’s. His claim to fame at home: he has the most complex home network.