Piranha Method, LLC. is a South Carolina based limited liability company comprised of three dedicated web designers and programmers: Matthew Cluver, Curt Blanton, and Scott Carroll. Together we design and deliver high quality creative work and applications that are guaranteed to eat your competition.
Matthew Cluver
Matthew Cluver has been working in the technology field since 1998 when he joined up with WP Media, Inc. a local Internet Service Provider in South Carolina (at the time). At WP Media Mr. Cluver first became introduced to web development, graphic design, linux administration, programming, and enterprise wireless networking. WP Media was one of the first companies in South Carolina to offer widespread wireless internet access (around Kingstree and the surrounding rural cities). WP Media is known for holding patents for the development of initial wireless 802.11 security protocols that are still in use today in certain deployments.
After leaving WP Media in 2000, Mr. Cluver started Piranha Method, LLC. Piranha Method is an IT consultation, development, design and hosting firm specializing in outsourced IT solutions for select groups of clientèle throughout the United States.
Piranha Method is responsible for the successful branding and web launch as well as daily IT operations of patented Zestra which is now available in Wal-Mart as well as every pharmacy chain nationwide. Piranha Method has also developed a custom web-based system that gathers, analyzes, and reports daily on properties listed for foreclosure in select markets — thus giving real estate investors a lead on their competition for properties going to auction. Over the years Piranha Method has headed numerous graphic design and web development projects for companies throughout the country.
In 2006, Piranha Method created subsidiary Hostmaster Flex, LLC., which partnered with several Charlotte based companies to offer a state-of-the-art datacenter, featuring numerous network, power and facility redundancies, linked to the largest wireless (802.11) network in North & South Carolina. In addition, Hostmaster Flex is also responsible for supporting one of the first Linux High-Availability Virtual Hosting Clusters in production use today, a cluster farm prototype well ahead of its time.
In 2007, Mr. Cluver became a partner in Wire Fly Communications, LLC. to expand on access to the largest wireless 802.11 network in North & South Carolina and to extend the network and offer services to residential communities throughout the region.
D. Scott Carroll
Born and raised in Charleston, recently relocated to Charlotte, Scott is an accomplished web application developer. His specialties are interface design, user-friendliness, illustration and graphic design. He is experienced in most of today’s modern internet development technologies, such as PHP, ASP, .NET, Javascript, and XML. Scott has been building and maintaining websites for over 10 years, and has grown up with the internet revolution. Scott understands, both as a developer and a user, today’s fast paced world of ever more functional internet browser applications. He is able to use this insight to create more user centric applications that are both powerful and easy to use. Matthew and Scott have been designing websites together since the early days at WPMedia.
He appreciates open source software and it’s global community of developers, and lends his talents to various projects to further the free software movement. He currently works with the QCubed fork of QCodo and contributes to Virtuemart and Joomla!.
Curtis Blanton
Curtis Blanton has been designing stylistic and imaginative web interfaces that maintain a balance of usability and effective content presentation for over 6 years. He has experience developing compelling web communications and consulting on content development for numerous noteworthy clients, including Zestra Laboratories, Semprae Laboratories, iDist Laboratories, and The Women’s Sexual Health Foundation. Curtis’ extreme attention to detail, along with his appreciation for aesthetic and user experience, give him a solid foundation for crafting both content management systems and fine CSS and XHTML which focus on helping clients use standards to cut costs and improve user experience. And he also plays a mean guitar.
Steven Weathers
Born and raised in Orange County California, recently relocated to Concord North Carolina, Steven is an accomplished front-end web developer who loves to design and develop clean and user friendly websites. Steven has been building and maintaining websites for over 5 years, and has done some print work including business cards and signs. Often referred to as an egotistical person, Steven prefers to follow web standards in all his work, and believes in the “less is more” argument. His hobbies include computers, gaming, music, movies, tv shows, and paintball.
