DesignB Studios

About Us

To gain an inside working knowledge of large successful interactive agencies, Brian developed key relationship and worked as an independent business development specialist for some of the largest web and ad agencies in the non-profit sector.  Honing on a niche, he now utilizes a team of the very best designers, developers and strategic consultants for designB studios while implementing a business practice to optimize their experience and work-flow.  In turn, while other agencies continue to raise their prices to overcome mismanagement and in-the-box thinking, Brian provides clients of designB studios with full, rich and feature packed solutions with a surprisingly fast turn-around and extremely personal service.
  

Brian is hands-on with each project to assure his passion transfers to the task, yet draws from a Creative Director who has been involved with and managed hundreds of successful and dynamic web development projects; designers who have gained their experience at some of the largest agencies, having an outstanding and diverse portfolio, and relying on extremely capable developers.  He also believes in drawing from the exceptional experience of top web and business strategists on nearly every project. 

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MATTHEW BLASI
Lead Designer and Creative Director
Professional Photographer

Matt's ability to craft a design from concept to deliverable is unmatched. His attention to detail and visualizing client needs and desires, transferring their mission and vision to a tangible, appealing resource is extremely powerful. Matt's passion for a project is present in each piece of work he is involved with. In truly understanding the project, Matt is also an excellent advisor for technical design and development issues, both internally and client facing. In fact, his willingness and effectiveness in communicating with clients is no less than impressive.

Matt is a specialist in Web Development and Dynamic Design for small to large organizations with substantial experience in social networking, web strategies, campaign marketing and emerging technologies.

Matt is also a professional photographer with an extensive portfolio which can be viewed at his site www.blasicreations.com. This is a great addition to our abilities as often the use of a professional photographer is needed to capture the personality of the organization as we are designing a web site. Thus, while creating the site, Matt can further the dynamics by utilizing this skill set, without having to pick and choose from stock photos or those that are novice.

Areas of Specialty:

CSS, HTML, XML, PHP, JavaScript, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Action Script 3.0

Experienced in multiple CMS platforms including WordPress, Kintera, Convio, Drupal, SilverStripe and Joomla.

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RODNEY MANLEY
Business Development

Rodney is a 35 year veteran of client services and management, working in the automotive field with the prestige of being one of the first African American General Managers in one of General Motor's largest privately owned dealerships in the United States.

Throughout his esteemed career, Rodney has received the highest awards of distiniguishment for sales, outstanding customer service and management.

Rodney is also an Armed Forces Veteran, serving several tours in the U.S. Army during Vietnam; spending two years in country and being stationed at Ft, Bragg as well as Germany and Alaska under the 101 Airborn Unit Brigade and the 4th Infantry Brigade.   Once back in the states, Rodney attended the University of Maryland.

For the better part of 20 years, Brian and Rodney have worked together... and once Rodney retired, it was only natural that he join designB studios to assist churches, ministries and non-profit organizations with their online initiatives.

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JON BRUNO
Database Expert and Consultant

Jon began working with Oracle in 1993 and has specialized in business databases ever since.  He joined Deloitte & Touche in 1995 and built databases for Philip Morris (now called Altria), the Law School Admissions Council, GE Capital, Cendant, and Mitsubishi International and others.  Jon went on to work for the Global Project management Office at Deutsche Bank during the federally mandated Y2K certification initiative and our purchase of Banker’s Trust.  On all of these projects Jon was privileged to work directly with clients on their requirements as well as implementing database technology.

In 2000 Jon began work with Ernst & Young.  He was assigned to work on the Valuation Database for their Valuation and M & A partners; also working with the Human Resources Managing Partner to create the web enabled HR management database in concert with a team of HR specialists from every division of E&Y.
  

In 2002 Jon moved to the Washington D.C. Area and became a database manager for the National Cathedral.  He continue today to do projects for Cathedral affiliated subsidiary organizations.
  

As a consultant Jon has worked with a broad cross section of industry with a continuing focus on business databases.  As a financial database professional he understands the business needs which a database can fill, as well as the need for ROI on any technology project.
  

THE TEAM BEHIND THE SCENE
SilveStripe CMS Development Team

SilverStripe has 16 core staff based in Wellington, New Zealand, supplemented by ten amazing programmers based around the world, with huge thanks to Google who has been marketing and paying for the project.

SilverStripe is proud that Google accepted SilverStripe to be one of only 113 open source projects globally suitable for the the Google Summer of Code 2007.

"I feel SilverStripe is a great example of a well-constructed open source project. It makes innovative use of technology but it is easy to use, which is just as important for open source, so it is a good candidate for Google to support.

With so much going on in the web- development arena, it will be easy for Summer of Code developers to contribute, and with the mentors having helped students in the past, we were happy to trust SilverStripe to be the first New Zealand organisation involved."  

-- Chris DiBona, Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc.