DesignB Studios
About Us
CEO, Lead PM, Designer
Brian is a veteran business development and marketing specialist with nearly 25 
years experience in both B2C and B2B markets. He has managed organizations with over 300 individuals and gross revenues in the 10’s of millions, successful in both the high paced/high pressure market as well as with a long term consultative sales cycle.
His passion for the power of the web and study of web design, development, functionality and strategy as well as implementation of dynamic and strategic interactive online campaigns led Brian to create one of the fastest growing web agencies available to small and mid-size organizations throughout the U.S.
To gain an inside working knowledge of large successful interactive agencies, Brian developed key relationship and worked as an independent business development specialist for some of the largest web and ad agencies in the non-profit sector. Honing on a niche, he now utilizes a team of the very best designers, developers and strategic consultants for designB studios while implementing a business practice to optimize their experience and work-flow. In turn, while other agencies continue to raise their prices to overcome mismanagement and in-the-box thinking, Brian provides clients of designB studios with full, rich and feature packed solutions with a surprisingly fast turn-around and extremely personal service.
Brian is hands-on with each project to assure his passion transfers to the task, yet draws from a Creative Director who has been involved with and managed hundreds of successful and dynamic web development projects; designers who have gained their experience at some of the largest agencies, having an outstanding and diverse portfolio, and relying on extremely capable developers. He also believes in drawing from the exceptional experience of top web and business strategists on nearly every project.
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Designer
Matt's ability to craft a design from concept to deliverable is unmatched. His attention to detail and visualizing client needs and desires, 
transferring their mission and vision to a tangible, appealing resource is extremely powerful. Matt's passion for a project is present in each piece of work he is involved with. In truly understanding the project, Matt is also an excellent advisor for technical design and development issues, both internally and client facing. In fact, his willingness and effectiveness in communicating with clients is no less than impressive.
Matt is a specialist in Web Development and Dynamic Design for small to large organizations with substantial experience in social networking, web strategies, campaign marketing and emerging technologies.
Matt is also a professional photographer with an extensive portfolio which can be viewed at his site www.blasi-creations.com. This is a great addition to our abilities as often the use of a professional photographer is needed to capture the personality of the organization as we are designing a web site. Thus, while creating the site, Matt can further the dynamics by utilizing this skill set, without having to pick and choose from stock photos or those that are novice.
He is also an advid car and motor sports fanatic. This is one of Matt's showcars 
and obviously he pushes us to sell more "motorhead" site redesigns. Matt is a very active member in SEMA 
and participates in many of their National shows where his custom 'Stang is typically part of the show or featured at a sponsor's booth while Matt puts on his photography hat.
Matt's Areas of Web Specialty:
CSS, HTML, XML, PHP, JavaScript, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Action Script 3.0
Experienced in multiple CMS platforms including WordPress, Kintera, Convio, Drupal, SilverStripe and Joomla.
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Business Development
Rodney is a 35 year veteran of client services and management, working in the automotive field with the prestige of being one of the first African American General Managers in one of General Motor's largest privately owned dealerships in the United States.
Throughout his esteemed career, Rodney has received the highest awards of distiniguishment for sales, outstanding customer service and management.
Rodney is also an Armed Forces Veteran, serving several tours in the U.S. Army during Vietnam; spending two years in country and being stationed at Ft, Bragg as well as Germany and Alaska under the 101 Airborn Unit Brigade and the 4th Infantry Brigade. Once back in the states, Rodney attended the University of Maryland.
For the better part of 20 years, Brian and Rodney have worked together... and once Rodney retired, it was only natural that he join designB studios to assist churches, ministries and non-profit organizations with their online initiatives.
STEVE CANADA
Expert Web Developer and Database Engineer
PHP, ASP, .net, C#, VB, Java, Flex, Flash, CMS, RDMS (Oracle, MySQL, SQL), HTML, CSS, Ajax and much more
BRANDON WASHINGTON
Developer
PHP, ASP, .net, C#, VB, Java, Flex, Flash, CMS, HTML, CSS, Ajax and much more
VIRGINIA REYNOLDS
Contract; Q/A & Tester for Systems implementation, performance and regression
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JIM THOMPSON
Database Expert and Consultant
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ONE OF THE TEAMS BEHIND THE SCENE
SilveStripe CMS Development Team
SilverStripe has 16 core staff based in Wellington, New Zealand, supplemented by ten amazing programmers based around the world, with huge thanks to Google who has been marketing and paying for the project.
SilverStripe is proud that Google accepted SilverStripe to be one of only 113 open source projects globally suitable for the the Google Summer of Code 2007.
"I feel SilverStripe is a great example of a well-constructed open source project. It makes innovative use of technology but it is easy to use, which is just as important for open source, so it is a good candidate for Google to support.
With so much going on in the web- development arena, it will be easy for Summer of Code developers to contribute,
and with the mentors having helped students in the past, we were happy to trust SilverStripe to be the first New Zealand organisation involved."
-- Chris DiBona, Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc.
