MANAGING PARTNER, CLIENT SERVICES Jake McGowan
Jake is co-founder and managing partner of Client Services for Rolling Orange. During his 10 + years at the firm, Jake has earned recognition as an expert in Web strategy for higher education working with clients such as Stanford University, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago. He has also delivered Web strategies to leading performing arts organizations, including the New York Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall.
Prior to Rolling Orange, Jake co-founded Pantheon Interactive, one of the first Web agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he was responsible for establishing client relationships with high-tech stalwarts such as Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft. Pantheon was purchased in 1998 by iXL Enterprises, where Jake became Vice President of Online Learning. Prior to Pantheon, he worked at SGI as a product manager of their ground-breaking and award-winning external website, “Silicon Surf”.
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MANAGING PARTNER, CREATIVE Colin Morris
Colin Morris is head of Creative and a co-founder of Rolling Orange. Colin’s background in interactive media dates back to the origins of the Web when he began pioneering Web design work at Silicon Graphics. He left Silicon Graphics in 1996 to co-found Pantheon Interactive, which was purchased by iXL in 1998. Colin also co-founded the online music start-up SeeHear.
Throughout his career, Colin has focused on blending high-quality creative design elements with sophisticated and compelling interactive solutions. His experience reflects numerous projects for clients in a variety of fields—from the performing arts to software development to the cruise industry. He oversaw creative development for two of the firm’s most successful and critically acclaimed projects to date—the San Francisco Symphony’s Keeping Score site, and the Carnegie Hall Listening Adventure: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.
MANAGING PARTNER, ENGINEERING Derek Evans
Derek Evans heads the technical brain trust at Rolling Orange. Working closely with the firm’s creative and business staff, Derek architects elegant technical solutions that address client needs, and then oversees the development of software that brings them to life.
Prior to co-founding Rolling Orange, Derek served as Head of Engineering for the Digital Media Services division of iXL, which at the time was one of the world’s largest interactive agencies.
At Rolling Orange, Derek has been instrumental in developing robust and reliable technical solutions for Rolling Orange clients such as Stanford University, the San Francisco Symphony, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago’s Alumni Community.
CREATIVE DIRECTOR Colin Dean
Colin Dean leads the Rolling Orange creative team with a fine-arts inspired design flair that is seasoned with more than ten years of real-world experience in interactive design and development. A skill set that includes interface design, motion graphics, and client-side scripting enables him to drive a project from first concept to a predictable, high-quality result.
Colin worked in London as a lead designer for Virgin.com before joining Rolling Orange. At Rolling Orange, he has directed the design efforts for several of the firm’s marquee clients, including Princeton University, Stanford University, Columbia University, the San Francisco Symphony, Carnegie Hall, and National Geographic Maps.
Sr. Programmer Anthony Neumann
Anthony Neumann is the technical wizard responsible for programming some of RO’s most sophisticated sites. His bag of server-side programming tricks includes PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Drupal, and assorted other advanced tools and techniques. On the presentation side, Anthony is a master at HTML, JavaScript, CSS and other forms of front-end coding. Anthony has been instrumental in developing Drupal-powered solutions for clients such as the San Francisco Symphony, Loyola University Health System, and the New York Philharmonic. His solutions look beyond end-user functionality and address the administrative workflow features that make it easy for our clients to manage and maintain their sites once RO has left the picture.
Prior to joining the Rolling Orange team, Anthony was a freelance programmer who developed solutions for variety of clients, including retail businesses, established corporations, and Internet startups. An avid golfer, Anthony hones his coding skills by working on his own pet project: an online destination site for fellow duffers.
WEB DESIGNER Cori Johnson
Cori Johnson is like that precocious kid who never stops asking “Why?” She injects moxie and enthusiasm into the Rolling Orange team and dedicates her days to creating beautiful, elegant, shiny designs and then breaking them with a sledgehammer and rebuilding them to make them better, stronger, faster than before.
As a Hollywood native Cori loves the creative process of storytelling. Her devotion to content strategy and information design was sparked when she was brought into a redesign of Pom Wonderful’s website and tasked with making the words on the page sound human. Since then Cori has been
honing her skills as a hybrid writer-designer, striving to keep the focus on the content and make the web an easier place to navigate.
Between the pages of wireframes and site maps in her sketchbook, Cori doodles life drawings, gathers ideas for future film and TV scripts, and composes essays on design, pop culture, and the growing presence of women and minorities in the tech industry.
She also plays a mean game of Taboo.
Front-End Web Developer Robert Armijo
Robert Armijo brings top-tier Web development, information architecture, and interface design skills to Rolling Orange.
Prior to joining the firm, Robert worked as a multimedia designer/developer at 1185 Design in Palo Alto. Before that, he was a Web producer at California Eastern Labs, where his projects spanned everything from content development to Web statistics analysis.
Senior Project Manager Sharyl Ponce
With close to a decade of project management experience, Sharyl excels at the art and science of keeping things on track. Her high-tech project scheduling, action item lists, and succinct meeting notes have earned her a legendary status among Rolling Orange clients. However, it is her soft touch that keeps creative staff, technical wizards, and clients alike calm and productive.
Prior to joining the team at Rolling Orange, Sharyl managed technology projects at Arthur Andersen Consulting and Charles Schwab.
OPERATIONS MANAGER Lisa McGowan
Lisa McGowan keeps tight reins on operations and finance at Rolling Orange. Lisa’s business acumen, forecasting skills, and grasp of contracts and client relations have helped the firm thrive over almost a decade. Prior to joining Rolling Orange, she headed up production at rightscenter.com, an online literary rights exchange.
Before that, Lisa worked in publishing, and luxuriated for many years in the bookselling world.
Front-end Developer
We’re looking for a savvy front-end developer to join us at our San Mateo office. You’ll work as part of a wildly creative team on a variety of projects from concept to creation. This position can be contracted or full-time.
What we’d love to see:
- Jedi-level skills in semantic HTML5/CSS3, XML/XLST, JavaScript frameworks, and rich media integration across multiple browsers and platforms.
- A portfolio and examples of beautifully organized code you’ve written.
- Working knowledge of content management frameworks, especially WordPress and Drupal.
- Keen awareness of site performance, scalability and scope.
- The ability to tell designers that they’re being crazy in the nicest way possible.
- Clear and effective communication.
- A passion for pushing the limits with new techniques and technologies.
What you’ll do:
- Work in tandem and consult with the design team to help bring comps to life.
- Build robust, beautiful, user-centered websites.
- Solve problems, strategize, and test, test, test.
What you won’t do:
- Waste time trying to fix designs that are impossible to implement.
- Fight with egotistical designers or impatient stakeholders to build things correctly.
- Wade through oceans of disorganized, unpublishable content.
Awesome reasons to work with us:
- A friendly, calm environment with a healthy work/life balance. (Did we mention no all-nighters?)
- A fantastic variety of projects and clients.
- Amazingly cool, nice, talented, down-to-earth co-workers.
- Full health benefits and 401(k) for full-time positions. If you get sick, just stay home and get better.
- The freedom to work from home as projects permit.
- A central location just steps from CalTrain, restaurants, and all the amenities of downtown San Mateo.
Interested? Send an email to jobs@rollingorange.com and tell us why you’re the bee’s knees. Be sure to include a resume with links to your work. Again, both contract AND full-time applicants are welcome.
Back-end Developer
We’re looking for a bright, top-notch back-end developer to join us at our San Mateo office. You’ll work as part of a wildly creative team on a variety of projects from concept to creation. This position can be contracted or full-time.
What we’d love to see:
- Nimble mastery of PHP, Rails, xHTML, JavaScript, XML/XSLT, CSS, etc.
- An up-to-date portfolio demonstrating your amazing development prowess.
- Intimate knowledge of browsers’ quirks, version control, and optimized search.
- A knack for communicating with clients (and sometimes designers) in layman’s terms.
- Confidence in making and explaining decisions about what frameworks to use on a project and why.
- Graceful multitasking and ability to maintain thorough documentation on multiple projects.
What you’ll do:
- Develop websites and applications using Drupal, WordPress, and other content management systems and frameworks.
- Write elegant, reusable code for websites and web apps as needed per project.
- Provide technical consultation to help clients navigate the stormy back-end seas.
- Collaborate on graphical web page production, including image development and preparation. (A close friendship with Adobe products is a plus.)
- Get excited and personally invested in the products you build, and execute them with pride.
What you won’t do:
- Work from vague or imprecise directions on a constricted timeline.
- Rush hacked-up code to launch, only to end up fixing everything later.
- Spend all your time debugging someone else’s mess.
Awesome reasons to work with us:
- A friendly, calm environment with a healthy work/life balance.
- A fantastic variety of projects and clients.
- Amazingly cool, nice, talented, down-to-earth co-workers.
- Full health benefits and 401(k) for full-time positions. If you get sick, just stay home and get better.
- The freedom to work from home as projects permit.
- A central location just steps from CalTrain, restaurants, and all the amenities of downtown San Mateo.
Interested? Send an email to jobs@rollingorange.com and tell us why you’re the bee’s knees. Be sure to include a resume with links to your work. Again, both contract AND full-time applicants are welcome.
Project Manager
We’re looking for a brilliant project manager to join us at our San Mateo office. You’ll work as part of a wildly creative team on a variety of projects from concept to creation. This position can be contracted or full-time.
What we’d love to see:
- Experience managing multiple schedules, budgets and personnel for a variety of sophisticated projects.
- Rock-solid written and verbal communication skills.
- Superlative organization and dilligent attention to detail.
- Dedicated focus on client satisfaction, with a willingness to push back when appropriate.
- The ability to quickly synthesize a room full of ideas and opinions into cohesive summary reports.
- Working knowledge of web/interactive technology and techniques.
- The power to do your work from anywhere with merely a cell phone, laptop, WiFi and caffeine.
What you’ll do:
- Write project plans and review them with several teams.
- Create milestones/to-do lists/calendars in Basecamp and oversee their progress to keep everyone on task.
- Respond to client emails to answer questions, update them on progress, and generally prevent panic and/or confusion from ensuing.
- Run conference/status calls and document everything in meeting notes.
- Follow up with teams on outstanding issues, asking “Where are we with this?”
What you won’t do:
- Wrangle unresponsive team members. (Painless cat herding!)
- Wade through bureaucracy to get things done or questions answered.
- Put out fires caused by the sales team’s errant, over-promising ways.
Interested? Send an email to jobs@rollingorange.com and tell us why you’re the bee’s knees. Be sure to include a resume and any links to projects that you are proud to have PM’d. Again, both contract AND full-time applicants are welcome.
Web Designer
We’re looking for a talented web designer to join us at our San Mateo office. You’ll work as part of a wildly creative team on a variety of projects from concept to creation. This position can be contracted or full-time.
What we’d love to see:
- A strong portfolio that demonstrates proven experience in web and interactive design.
- A solid understanding of web standards, usability and information architecture.
- Intimate knowledge of standard design software. (You and Adobe, sitting in a tree…)
- Familiarity with content management systems for themes and content production.
- Professionalism, patience and compassion in working with clients.
- Zero fear of critiques or defending your design choices to the team.
- Strong time management, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Superb attention to detail.
- A passionate desire to learn and apply new ideas and methods to the ever-changing landscape of the web.
What you’ll do:
- Develop creative briefs, UI design comps, and design presentations for clients.
- Collaborate closely with our programming team in production and publication.
- Make real, meaningful contributions to the design of some truly incredible websites.
What you won’t do:
- Print work, or turn print work into web and vice-versa.
- Endless iterations or revisions for stakeholders who don’t know what they want.
- Pull all-nighters to get everything done yesterday.
Awesome reasons to work with us:
- A friendly, calm environment with a healthy work/life balance. (Did we mention no all-nighters?)
- A fantastic variety of projects and clients.
- Amazingly cool, nice, talented, down-to-earth co-workers.
- Full health benefits and 401(k) for full-time positions. If you get sick, just stay home and get better.
- The freedom to work from home as projects permit.
- A central location just steps from CalTrain, restaurants, and all the amenities of downtown San Mateo.
Interested? Send an email to jobs@rollingorange.com and tell us why you’re the bee’s knees. Be sure to include a resume with links to your portfolio. Again, both contract AND full-time applicants are welcome.