Our Team

We pride ourselves in being intensely creative, professional, fun, reliable, and passionate to the core. Want to join the team? Check out our job openings.

Jason Mark / Co-founder & Creative Lead

With Jason at the helm, Gravity Switch continues to be the leader in New England at web, iPhone, and iPad development. In addition to web design, Jason has written and collaborated on a handful of children's books (both for himself and clients). He has also created ePub books, some of which are currently available in Apple's iBookstore. 

Always passionate about teaching, Jason was one of the first dozen professors of web design in the country and has taught at Marlboro College and the University of Massachusetts. He writes for the popular Smashing Magazine and Six Revisions blogs, and speaks across New England on web and mobile design and usability.

Twice a day you can see Jason on the bike path between his Northampton office and his Florence home—even in winter.

Education: University of Massachusetts at Amherst: B.F.A. and M.S. in Education. Studied abroad in Kassel, Germany.

Experience: 20 years in the industry.

Speaking Events: iPhone DevCon, Android DevCon, World Usability Day, ePub Hidden Technology, Joomla!Day New England (to name a few).

Recent Articles: How WordPress Took The CMS Crown From Drupal And Joomla

Christine Mark / Co-founder, Graphic Designer, Mom

Christine enjoys vacuuming. She also likes mowing the lawn (because it's like vacuuming—only outside). She likes order in her carpets and lawns, but let her loose on a design project and you'll be blown away by her kick-ass creativity.

Christine was a member of the Microsoft Word team in its heyday and left to form Gravity Switch in 1996. She balances four kids, her side business as a landlord, and the running of Gravity Switch, and still somehow finds time to excel at the visual stuff. (We're still trying to figure out where she's hiding her six extra arms).

Christine's creativity doesn't stop there. Check out her vocal prowess and storytelling. If you're interested in distributing your book on the Apple iPad you should read her "mini-guide" to ePubs.

Education: Mount Holyoke College: B.A. in Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude.

Experience: 17 years, including several years with Microsoft.

Recognition: w3 Awards, Interactive Media Awards, Awwwards, Summit Creative Awards, MITX Awards. Former board member of United Way.

Articles: Co-writer and ghost writer of articles published in Computer Graphics World, Smashing Magazine and OPEN Forum.

Ketesah Trudeau / Senior Project Manager

Tess likes to make everybody happy, all the time. Yes, she knows this is literally impossible, but she does her darndest every day by keeping her projects on schedule and on budget, and remembering to communicate well with clients and team members, as well as breathe and stay hydrated.

NOTE: If you give her some marketing jargon to turn into search engine and user friendly web language, she will be your best friend forever.

At the end of the day, she has a lot of happy clients, and that makes her happy. And ready for a nap.

Education: University of Massachusetts Commonwealth College, B.A. in English, Minor in Psychology, Magna Cum Laude. Studied abroad in Oviedo, Spain.

Experience: 7 years of project management

Recognition: Phi Beta Kappa

Kayleen Rossio / Project Manager and All Things Search

After graduation, Kayleen spent a year traveling through Italy, France, and Spain before she whirlwinded into our office, taking it by storm. Kayleen likes organizing things - and it shows! She's fast become an integral part of Gravity Switch, specializing in managing online Paid Ad campaigns and working with clients to optimize their sites for search engines. She's collecting skills and titles by the score! We're looking forward to the day we can clone her.

Education: Salem State University, B.A. in Music and Italian

Recognition: Google AdWords Certified, Past Presenter at Yale and Western MA Drupal Camps

Rachael Frank / Lead Strategist & The Original "Happiness Facilitator"

Rachael keeps projects moving forward and clients happy while simultaneously keeping the office hip. 

She makes everything look easy, even as she single-handedly prepares a trade show presentation while launching three new websites, and making sure that Jason's shirt matches his pants before he goes into his next meeting.

Whew!

 

Education: Marlboro College, BA in Film Theory & Criticism

Experience: 9 years getting things done!  

Recognition: Graduated w/honors, certified entrepreneurial thinker

Recent Articles: Yet Another Foray Into Indie Films

Theresa Carrington / Executive Producer, Graphic Designer, Photographer

After a dozen years playing with top guns like Razorfish and Houghton Mifflin in the Boston market as a Producer, Designer and Project Manager, Theresa left the Fortune 500 world, sold her house, and decided to focus on what is most important to her in life: her love of family, travel, and photography. With her husband and 2 year old daughter in tow, she set off for the experience of her life—a year in Europe.

Theresa's creative side captured the trip with an amazing collection of photographs and a weekly travel journal focused on art, food!, history, food!, churches, food!, culture, festivals, oh and did we say food!

...and she did it all within her original budget and timeline!

Sound familiar? If you know Theresa, her love of design and photography is a perfect blend with her business-side. Successful designs and projects make for happy clients and a very happy Theresa. Check out her photography and read her travelogues at http://carringtoncreative.com.

Education: University of Massachusetts at Amherst: B.D.I.C. in Graphic Design and Communication

Experience: 18 years as designer and project manager

Recognition: Interactive Media Awards, project managed multi-million dollar interactive media projects for Houghton Mifflin's K-12 division

Jessica Shiner / Graphic Designer

A spunky designer with a big brain (not just a big head!), Jessica wears hipster sneakers, enjoys cat videos, reads like it's going out of style, and laughs abundantly. Her degrees in communication and design are the best of friends and there's no project, print or web, that she can't design the hell out of. Jessica plays nicely with others and loves furry animals and chocolate, but then, who doesn't?

P.S. Say her name and title three times fast.

Education: University of Massachusetts at Amherst, B.A. in Communication, Cum Laude. Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Graphic Design Certificate.

Experience: 8 years in graphic design and communications

Recognition: Several Addy Awards while part of the Winstanley Associates creative team. Interactive Media Award.

Rob Archer / Senior Programmer, Out-Of-The-Box Thinker

Rob's clothes can be on fire while he's being chased by wild dogs, but if you come up to him and you need "good help now," he's your man. He enjoys a good challenge, and you'll see him on the front lines inspiring us all with new feature ideas, as well as behind the scenes building the smart, secure infrastructure that makes these things "just work."

His programming toolbox includes PHP, ColdFusion, MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and Access, Drupal, HTML, XML, Javscript, CSS, some duct tape, and a really big hammer. He knows where to hit your project to make it work (he also knows where to hit the furnace to make it work). He has been doing this for upwards of 18 years now, and we've been lucky enough to have him as a part of the Gravity Switch team for most of that time.

Rob is comfortable pioneering new technologies, developing open source customer resource management tools or even keeping a client's aging AS400 mainframe talking to their website "for a little while longer." He doesn't believe in "the box," preferring to keep an open mind and brainstorm the very best approach for each individual task, and that's why we love him (that and the furnace thing).

Education: University of Massachusetts at Amherst, B.S 

Experience: 18 years programming experience

Ryan Askew / Cutting Edge Front-End Web Developer

Ryan is a front end web developer focused on perfecting the building blocks of websites. He thinks about advanced page usability, standards compliance, and seamless integration with the cool new web techniques and trends coming down the pike.

Ryan's favorite tools are XHTML, CSS, and Javascript. He also has HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, PHP, WordPress and Drupal under his belt. Not to mention he has a degree in Teleproduction and Multimedia Technology.

Before joining the Gravity Switch team, Ryan ran his own freelance web development business. Take that experience, mix in a decade of customer service work, add two precocious daughters, some alternative rock, X-Men comic books, and stir = you've got Ryan.

Education: Springfield Technical Community College, AS of Science in Teleproduction and Multimedia Technology

Experience: 6 years in programming

Corey Condardo / Developer

If you’re looking for a fireball of energy Corey is your man. His wide ranging background includes a stint at the global technology consulting company Accenture, working as a systems analyst as a part of a global IT team, and starting his own web development company.

Corey is a skilled, versatile team player with a heavy focus on crafting Drupal solutions, making clients happy, and keeping tricky projects moving forward. He has been working in the tech industry since the age of 16 and earned a business degree with a concentration in technology because he is convinced those two are inextricably linked.

On Sundays Corey can be found planted on the couch cheering on his New England Patriots. 

He's impatiently waiting to solve your next tough challenge, so contact him now!

Education: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, B.S. in Management of Information Systems

Experience: 7 years of technology industry experience