Our team is made up of some of the industry's top professionals. Below are our team leads for some of our key development areas.
Chuck Neal President and Technical Architect
Chuck Founded MediaMacros in 1998 as a freelancer, providing technical assistance to Macromedia Director developers and firms. With his unique background of art (BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design in Computer Art) and programming the business grew and was incorporated in 2000. Since then MMI has pushed the boundaries of technology for such companies as Bank of America, Coca-Cola, Disney, andMicrosoft. Chuck's chief role is that of technical architect, planning and designing complex systems to meet customer's most complex technical needs.
George Sparrow VP of Business Development
George Sparrow has a degree in International Business from the University of Georgia and has extensive business and financial management experience. George wears many hats including account manager, project manager and business development. As an account manager he works diligently to understand clients and their business needs. As a project manager he ensures projects are completed on time and within budget.
Mike Blaustein Lead Multimedia Developer
Mike Blaustein holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Computer Art, with primary focus on 3d interactive programming, from the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has a strong understanding of design and theory as well as the more technical application issues. He has been working in the industry for over 10 years, on projects for companies such as Disney, Intel, Motorola, DuPont, and many others. He has set up kiosks, interactive CD/DVDs, websites, and games for a wide variety of clients. He concentrates on making easy to use interfaces with powerful back-ends to accomplish the clients' needs within time and budgetary constraints. He works in all realms of the application development spectrum, from design and architecting a project, through creating graphics or 3d assets, as well as pulling all the pieces together and programming the completed application.
Shane Rogers Lead Web Application Developer
Shane has a Bachelors of Art from Georgia Southern University. He has been designing and building web applications since 1997, working with a wide variety of businesses across the country. He also taught Information Technology at Central Georgia Technical College.
Shane's chief role is development of advanced web applications, assisting Chuck with system design, and is responsible for designing and developing many of the subsystems that make up successful applications. He builds each piece with the overall design goals in mind, making sure each piece works properly as a part of the whole solution.
Ethan Galant Art Director
Ethan has a BA in writing and history from SarahLawrenceCollege, with an additional focus on fine art. He also attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco, where he focused on design, interface, packaging and publishing. Ethan has 20 years of experience in web, print, video and multimedia