Katie Hellmuth Martin
Owner, Co-Founder

Katie's passion for small business and entrepreneurship runs deep. Empowering others to make their businesses more successful is at the core of her messaging and tools developed for Tin Shingle. Katie first hung her shingle as a website designer and producer, and then co-founded Tin Shingle when businesses needed marketing and PR help after their websites launched. In addition to her work with businesses at the national level, Katie is the publisher of a local online newspaper, A Little Beacon Blog, that keeps the pulse on local business in a train town in the Hudson Valley. She is also the producer of websites and social media campaigns for Katie James, Inc.. See where Tin Shingle has been featured in the news. Katie lives in Beacon, NY with her husband and three children.


Shayne Parrish
Lead Website Developer

Shayne has been developing websites for over twenty years, embracing open-source coding early on and transforming open source platforms to deliver more. Most recently, Shayne has pursued mobile design in order to make websites responsive and easy to navigate. Shayne is an avid record collector and beat maker. Shayne lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and daughter.


Brandon Lillard
Podcast Producer

Brandon is a community organizer, youth mentor and podcast producer with Youth Podcast Program, and was raised in the City of Beacon. Listen to him at Steady Geekin’, Not up for Debate, and This is Beacon. Brandon co-hosts the Beacon-based podcast, Wait, What Is That? with Katie. He is a board member for I Am Beacon.