Associate’s
Bios
Marc Barker, Project Consultant
Marc has produced award winning CD-ROM titles, Web and presentation productions
for over 10 years. He oversees production teams consisting of project managers,
designers, animators and programmers. Projects have ranged from Business-to-Business
marketing and communication to fine art CDs.
Marc co-founded Cosus Interactive,
an Oklahoma based interactive communications company in 1995 and was Executive
Vice President of Interactive Services for Vectrix Corporation and President
of Aeternitas, Inc.
Previously he was on the staff and faculty of the University
of Central Oklahoma where he was instrumental in the founding of the
Presentation Production Center, taught principles of interactivity
and was production supervisor for the Multimedia Technology Laboratory.
Rob Smith, Lead Design Consultant
Rob Smith is a graphic designer with over 10 years of professional experience.
Rob has spent time working in all of the major professional design fields including:
boutique design studios, large ad agencies and interactive firms. Along with
being a professional graphic designer, he also has more than 6 years experience
as an adjunct professor teaching graphic design on the university level.
For the past seven years Rob has focused his professional career
on interactive design. During this time he has created many award-winning
works for large corporations and small businesses.
A primary strength that helps to separate Rob from many of his
interactive design peers is his understanding of corporate marketing
and branding techniques. While some designers in the field may
specialize in only in certain technologies, Rob practices the core
value of graphic design–to creatively solve the client's
problem with respect to the target audience.
Rob's specialties include:
•website design and development
•CD-ROM design and development
•Flash animation and development
•identity design
•corporate branding
Taylor Wilken, Lead Programming
Consultant
Taylor Wilken is a Web developer and project manager with more than eight
years experience developing sophisticated data-driven applications for large
and small business. Clients include Harold's Stores, Delta Dental Plan of Oklahoma
and the Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce.
Previously he was U.S. Webmaster and Internet development manager for Inter.net,
a global Internet service provider, and Vice President, Technology, for the Oklahoma
Bankers Association.
Bob Gladstein, Lead Search Engine Optimization Consultant
Bob Gladstein first learned about SEO while working as the webmaster for a small software company in 1999. After an expansion and redesign of the company's site he began to look for ways to increase its visibility and conversion rate. This led him to discover reliable sources of information and to become active in online search engine optimization and webmaster communities. After having great success both with that site and some others, Bob started Raise My Rank Services.
Since becoming a full-time SEO, Bob has worked on sites of non-profit organizations and small to medium sized businesses, concentrating on proper use of keyword phrases, content, clean code, style sheets, document structure, and thematic linking.
He also serves as moderator on two SEO fora, an instructor at Search Engine College and is on the Executive Committee of SeoPros, an organization that promotes best practices in the field.
Tony Jenkins, Lead Programming Consultant
As a webmaster and project lead Jenkins has designed,
developed, implemented, and supported a broad range of
sophisticated applications and is intimate with all stages
of the development life cycle for both small and enterprise-wide applications.
With over 22 years experience Jenkins understands what's at stake
to maintain Best-In-Class leadership in web application
development. Jenkins comes to us from Seagate Technology,
a market share leader and provider of computer peripherals
world wide, where he held a senior position as project
lead in the Information Technology division.
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