When you work with Gravity Switch, you can rest assured that you're working with the best. As a small boutique shop, we're nimble and flexible - able to handle rush jobs and complex projects of all sizes with minimum hassle and maximum personal service. From our founders and production team, to our strategic alliances, we pride ourselves on being intensely creative, professional, fun, reliable, and passionate to the very core.
Jason Mark
Co-founder, Chief Strategist & Creative Lead
You know those tricky business challenges that the rest of us shy away from? Those are Jason's favorites. He takes bites out of them like they are big juicy baked potatoes with just the right amount of butter. Jason makes us all look past the "right now" to the smartest solutions that will stay true to important goals in the long run. He's been doing this for 20 years.
A father of three (and counting), he's big on family and makes his employees feel like a part of it (and believe us, this makes a difference). Also, he was one of the first dozen professors of website design in the country, back in the old days of the 1990's, and we think that's pretty rockin'.
Wave at him as he rides by on his bicycle to and from work every day! Even in winter.
Christine Mark
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 balances three 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.
Ketesah Trudeau
Manager of Projects, Writer of Words
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.
Rachael Frank
When you need a "Gentle push from a cheerful female"
Rachael keeps projects moving forward and clients happy while simultaneously keeping the office hip. She is one of those people who makes everything look easy, even as she single-handedly prepares a tradeshow presentation while launching three new websites and making sure that Jason's shirt matches his pants before he goes into his next meeting.
Theresa Carrington
Executive Producer, Graphic Designer
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 some of her travelogues at http://carringtoncreative.com.
Rob Archer
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 13 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).
Derek Allard
Where do we start...?
If you live in Massachusetts and care about programming standards, you're probably already on Derek's Twitter feed. He's a frequent paid speaker on topics like Google Adwords, Search Engine Optimization, and Social Media statewide.
Derek owned his own web business (www.tunnel7.com) for 8 years before joining up with Gravity Switch. His skills run the full gamut from usability, to graphic design, to coding, to search engine optimization, to social media. He reads more web books in a month than your web designer likely has in their lifetime. And as if that wasn't enough, he bicycles to work 364 days out of the year. Phew!
Katie Methe
"Give me any person and I will make friends with them"
It doesn't much matter to Katie whether she's done something hundreds of times or never heard its name before—she'll jump into it with an amazing level of positive energy and intensity. She loves meeting new people, and you'll understand this when you talk to her for the first time.
Sometimes she dreams in Drupal.
We also have the pleasure of working with:
Kevin - The cleanest HTML/CSS in the west
Tommy - PHP with a smile
Todd - Database powerhouse
Scott - PHP, Flash, HTML, Vegan
Gabe - The smartest crazy man you'll ever meet