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Our Team
At DG Interactive, our people are our greatest assets. Collectively, we have decades of experience in all kinds of marketing mediums and technologies. We'd like you to meet some of the key members of our team.
 Dave Grossman, President
In January 2002, Dave formed DG Interactive, LLC, an interactive marketing agency. His goal was to start a company centered on digital marketing that would integrate the most common aspects of customer's digital needs: Website design and development with a focus on search engine optimization and online marketing. Dave feels that the key to unlocking value for clients is in building a client's brand by designing user-friendly sites that potential customers are able to find when they search online. Dave has a strong commitment to customer service and always makes sure the client's needs are met.
Prior to starting DG Interactive, Dave was a Senior Producer and Search Engine Strategist at ICE Integrated Communications and Entertainment in New York where he managed and consulted on projects for a diverse selection of clients including Forbes, Fidelity Investments, Canadian Tire, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Canon U.S.A.
 Donald Osborne, VP Marketing Strategy &
New Business Development
Donald has extensive experience in visual and live communications. He has created or collaborated on projects in every media- Internet, TV spots, promotional and training video, satellite TV, corporate meetings and events as well as marketing strategy.
As a brand marketing strategist, he has sold-in, supervised, and collaborated in global positioning research for leading corporations, including Fidelity IBG, Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications, ILOG, Broadvision and Choice Seat among others. These projects have covered markets in the U.S., Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Donald has also conceived, supervised and delivered internal and external market research projects for R.H. Macy & Co, Inc. private label apparel programs.
He has led teams creating interactive sales training programs for Canon U.S.A., Clairol, Engelhard Chemicals and King Products, among others. He has partnered with Dave Grossman in DG Interactive since its inception.
 Rob Dyett, Senior Web Developer
Rob has a broad range of experience in the web and multimedia industry, specializing in web building and development. He has held numerous roles and responsibilities including building, maintaining, re-designing and designing industry leading websites. He knows that hand-coding is the only way to build pages and scoffs at the mere mention of a WYSIWYG editing program.
His last position was as a web builder at ICE Integrated Communications and Entertainment, where he gained invaluable experience working on sites for Air Canada, Alias | Wavefront, ASCAP, BMW, Canon, Celestica, CIBC, DBRS, Fashion Cares, Fidelity Investments, Go.com, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel Networks, and Sprott Securities. With DG Interactive, he has taken his career to the next level -- providing valuable guidance and programming expertise in the areas of web design and development.
 Andrew Hladkyj, Senior Multimedia Designer
With a post-graduate education in Graphic Design and working in the interactive industry since the early nineties, Andrew brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the DGI team with over 10 years experience in the interactive industry and a post-graduate education in Graphic Design. He has designed interfaces for emerging technologies including the earliest interactive television program guides for Bell Canada and numerous high profile websites.
Andrew has art directed and designed websites for a number of leading companies including: Air Canada/Aeroplan, Bell Canada, Canon, Direct Energy, FedEx, Janssen-Ortho, Labatt/Budweiser Canada, Microcell Communications/Fido, Roche, Rogers Communications, and Xerox. At DG Interactive, he continues to work on leading-edge multimedia including website and Flash design for a wide range of user experiences.
 Andrew Murphy, Flash Programmer/Designer
Trained as a Classical Animator, Andrew worked on a wide variety of hand drawn animation productions. After several years in 'the trenches' he changed careers, teaching himself to animate and program with Flash 4. Adding this new skill set to his animation training, and his experience with a wide variety of graphic design software, he broke into the Flash animation and design field. In following years he expanded his design skills and broadened his understanding of Flash programming and web building. He served as a proof reader of Colin Moock's book, "Actionscript: The Definitive Guide", perhaps the most comprehensive book published on the Flash programming language.
Andrew has worked for a wide variety of clients including Nelvana, The Animation House, Walt Disney TV, IBM, Nortel Networks, Razor, Canon, GO.com, Points.com, Air Canada, FedEx, CBC, Fashion Cares, AcreB2B, Tri Continental Capital, Further Inc., Dove, Canadian Tire, Interbets and many others.
 David Mayerlen, Technical Lead
David has been working in the information technology world since the late eighties. It was in 1993 while working as a programmer at Nortel that David attended a demo of the World Wide Web at a Unix Unanimous meeting. The next day David and a colleague began to create one of the very first Intranet sites at Nortel and soon began migrating the Engineering Database tool they were working on to the web platform.
David moved on to the IBM Air Canada E-Business team where he led a team of programmers in charge of www.aircanada.ca.
David has since been working in the digital agency market providing technical management and programming on numerous internet projects for companies such as Canadian Tire, Proctor and Gamble, Celestica, Fidelity Investments, WetSeal, CIBC, Air Canada, Ball Beer, Royal Benson & Hedges, Unilever, Canon, Signature Vacations, Disney and Dominion Bond Rating Service.
 Steven Wicks, Senior Software Developer
With over a decade of high-volume, high-quality experience in the production of a large range of multimedia project types, Steven brings veteran skills and seasoned perspective to DGI. You'll often find him working on our disc-based projects where he draws on all of his past responsibilities for team leadership, concept development, interface design, graphic production and authoring to hardware/software specification and installation scenarios.
His past accomplishments include leading development of award-winning edutainment series' on CD-ROM, educational multimedia products, high-traffic kiosks as well as dozens of interactive marketing projects and presentation projects. He never compromises in quality deliverables and he demands results that achieve a meaningful end-user experience that meets his clients' objectives.
 Tina Smith-Pautler, Senior Multimedia Designer
Tina has a wide range of work experience from photography to multimedia design. She is a key team member involved with the design and production of projects ranging from speaker support to interactive CD-ROMs. Some of the clients Tina has worked with include the Hudson's Bay Company, Canadian Tire, Sears, FedEx, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Nortel, Canon, Citibank, and the Bank of Montreal.
 Nora Barker, Senior Multimedia Designer
Nora has over a decade of experience in interactive media, with a strong foundation in art and design. With an undergraduate focus in Fine Art and Design, an M.F.A. in Computer Graphics and extensive experience in her field, she possesses a unique combination of creative and technical expertise that has kept her in demand over the years.
Nora has designed, authored and directed for award-winning CD-ROM titles and press kits, as well as kiosk, video, DVD-ROM, Internet and Intranet projects, both independently and as a team member with various production companies. She has served a diversity of clientele, including ABC, Canon, Citibank, Essence Magazine, Godiva, Goldman-Sachs, IBM, Nextel, Nabisco and Ricoh, and continues to uphold her exceptionally high standards for quality.
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