Meet The Gear Grinders

Founded in 2002, Legend Web Works is a full service Cincinnati-based web design company.

During the past 17 years, we have served businesses from small start-up firms to major corporations. We currently maintain thousands of web pages for companies throughout North America and as far away as Japan and the United Kingdom.

We were included in the prestigious Business Courier Book of Lists for the last 8 years as one of Top 10 web design firms in the Tri-State region.

We are dedicated to creating a website that is useful and effective for your business. From the time your site goes live through its ongoing evolution, we are here to help you maintain an outstanding presence on the web.

Kedrick Fitzgerald, founder

Kedrick founded Legend Web Works in 2002.  Under his leadership, Legend Web Works has grown from a small startup to one of the Top 10 web design firms in the Tri-State region, as reported in the prestigious Business Courier Book of Lists, every year since 2010.

He is currently responsible for the overall direction and vision for the company.

Jesse Kankowski, operations director

Jesse oversees all general operations, billing, human resources, and training at Legend Web Works. He coordinates resources between teams in the office, works with clients and helps with solving problems that arise. Jesse started at Legend Web Works in 2011. Previous to working with us, he spent 5 years in Retail Management and 4 years as a Department Manager where he gained experience in customer service, billing, accounts payable/receivable, and more. 

Scott Lamb, business development

Scott joined the Legend Web Works team in 2017. He brings with him a drive to build strong customer relationships with current and prospective clients. Scott brings over 20 years of sales experience to our team. Scott meets with new and existing clients to see how Legend Web Works can meet their website needs and evolve their online presence. 

Addie Fitzgerald, business development

As company co-owners, Addie and her husband, Kedrick, provide vision and direction to the Legend team. Addie currently manages our relationships with school district clients and works to share the school website co-op opportunity with other districts throughout Ohio and the surrounding region. Addie’s background in public relations and marketing is put to work as she focuses on business development, client communications and oversight of the school website advertising program. 

Jen Howell, project manager

Jen manages our New Development team at Legend Web Works. Her team supports our new website design clients, custom development projects, and is also responsible for making our clients web design experience the best possible.  
Jen joined Legend Web Works in 2014 with more than 15 years of retail management experience. She earned her BBA from the University of Cincinnati in 2001.

Corey Hastings, project manager

Corey joined the Legend Web Works team in 2018. He handles a variety of tasks, from designing new websites to implementations to assisting in customer support. Corey has 4 years of graphic design experience and 2 years of marketing experience which benefit Legend Web Works' clients each and every day.

Kelly Grimes, support manager

Kelly has been an integral part of the Legend Web Works team since 2008. She currently works as the manager of Website Support, Google Services and Google My Business Monitoring. Prior to her career with Legend Web Works, Kelly managed an architectural firm in downtown Cincinnati for 8 years and studied graphic design at Cincinnati State University.

Alli Hicks, project assistant

Alli joined Legend Web Works in 2015. Her attention to detail shines as she assists the new development team with the website build process and trains clients one-on-one to teach them how to use our content management systems. She also serves the support team daily and handles scheduling and reception. Alli has a Bachelor degree in Journalism. 

Ryan Coey, developer 

Ryan began working at Legend Web Works in 2010 and serves as our lead software developer. He builds functionality for clients “behind the scenes” and develops and integrates solutions to meet the specific business needs of each client. He is responsible for ensuring every website Legend Web Works builds meets the highest standards in the industry. Prior to his position here, Ryan was in management in the hospitality industry and studied programming at Cincinnati State University. 

Brandon Evans, support services

Brandon started at Legend Web Works in 2011 and he works with the support team to develop solutions for existing client requests. He has an Associate of Applied Science in Visual Communications degree from Sinclair Community College and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wright State University. Prior to working at Legend Web Works, Brandon worked for Miami Valley Tech Prep Consortium and Film Dayton. 

Rob Frank, designer

Rob began working at Legend Web Works in 2017. As a developer and designer, he works on implementing designs for our new development team. Rob graduated from University of Cincinnati's Electronic Media program in 2014, where he also studied marketing. Prior to Legend Web Works, Rob gained experience developing corporate websites in the healthcare field.

Mellanie Sammond, support assistant

Mellanie joined Legend Web Works in 2019. Her primary role is to work along side our support team to assist with Website Support, Google Services and Google My Business Monitoring. Prior to joining our team, she worked as a Dental Assistant. 

Jenn Ulrich, designer

Jenn started at Legend Web Works in 2019 after attending Cincinnati State. She is a web developer and designer for our new development team. She is responsible for building and implementing websites for our new customers.