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Chicago Web Management uses a scaleable,
virtual team which keeps down our costs to you. However,
every project is personally supervised by one or both
of the principals of our organization. Each principal
has over 6 years of web development expertise, with clients
ranging in size from Fortune 500 international corporations
to sole proprietorships. Regardless of size, all clients
receive direct, personal attention.
Patrick Elward
A third generation Chicagoan, Patrick has worked in client
services for almost 15 years. An early advocate of the internet,
Patrick has been actively developing web sites since
1995 and is certified as
a Dreamweaver
MX Professional Developer. This certification proves
a professional level of skills in web development and
site management. Patrick is also a CIW
Certified Internet Webmaster. These certifications
prove professional competency and dedication to manage
YOUR web site. Contact him to
help your business generate revenue and lower costs of
maintaining your web site.
Career highlights include
working on the launch of iDine.com, a multi-million dollar
spinoff from Transmedia ("Dining A La Card"),
driving Torque creative into the interactive Launch firm
that it is today, and saving 3Com's CommWorks (now UTStarcom)
over $10,000 annually in web development costs with innovative
programming (removing frames and adding server-side includes).
Recent projects completed include work for A
Fortune 500 Insurance Company , Hewitt ,
another Insurance Company and the City of Chicago Committee
on Finance.
Previously, Patrick was Assistant Service Manager for
a Top 100 Motorcycle Retail center in Lake County and
General Manager of Redline Cycle Service in Skokie. An
avid motorcyclist and world traveller, Patrick follows MotoGP, World
Superbike and AMA
Superbike class
racing series.
Patrick's degree in English from Loyola University enables
him to communicate effectively with clients. Contact
Patrick if you'd like to have your site generate more business
and even save money in the process!
Dave Rodman
Dave is our newest weapon to help our clients achieve their maximum potential on the web. He has over ten years experience developing web sites and over twenty years as a professional graphic designer. Dave's forte is programming easy-to-use web tools, especially dynamically driven ones to allow administrators to manage their own content.
Its rare to find a designer who knows development, let
alone database development, but Dave is one of the best.
Contact us for a demo of our top-secret tools that we've
developed for clients. Dave's specialty is helping businesses
solve knotty technical issues. Need login security? Want
to be able to update pages yourself? How about tracking
sales results and updating the product listings yourself?
Dave can design all of these and more for your business.
Dave's portfolio can be viewed here: Rodman Design
Melanie Ceraso
Melanie has worked professionally as a
web designer/digital artist since 1995. Her career grew
from a childhood love of the arts as well as her natural
creative urges. Working as a web designer is a dream that
she continually builds upon. It is her passion and her
life. Her
experience with corporate as well as small business web
development and design work covers the spectrum of
web design including; creative concepting, project management,
quality assurance, database-to-web applications, and client
relationships.
Melanie’s work on her personal site was featured
in the Typography, Navigation and Color books from the
Website Graphics Series published by Rockport Publishers
in December 1998. Her personal site has also won a variety
of Industry Design Awards including the 1999 New Media
Invision Bronze Award for Personal Site, featured as the
ProjectCool Site of the Day in 1998, 1999, and 2000, featured
as the Project Cool Best Personal Site of the Year in
1999 and awarded 2nd Place in the 1999 Digital Chicago
Best of the Web Awards. Melanie has been certified since
December 2003 in Web Standards-Based Design through the
DePaul University Institute for Professional Development.
Melanie currently lives in her hometown of Chippewa Falls,
Wisconsin and telecommutes to work with Chicago Web Management.
Melanie's portfolio of over 80 screen
shots can be viewed
here: Flickr
Yelena Shapiro
Yelena is our resident
Search Engine Optimization and Marketing specialist. She
is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill
School of Journalism. She is also a Google
Adword Certified Professional and her sole focus
is on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing
(SEM). She has been employed by Search Engines.com as
an analyst and continues to service some of their clients.
Her success and expertise in this area is a critical
component for our client’s success.
Mike Paradiso
Mike is our web producer. Fluent in HTML, CSS and Javascript,
Mike ensures that projects get completed quickly and
accurately.
Mike has worked at major web operations like Best Seats and LiveNation,
producing content for high-traffic web sites. In his spare
time, Mike enjoys playing softball, football and other
team sports.
Luca Matteis
Luca handles the database work and interactive components
of Content Management Systems. He makes sure that authentication
processes work properly while creating new and innovative
ways to make the user's experience as painless as possible.
Luca moved here from Rome, Italy, where he was raised and is excited
by working with Chicago Web Management clients, both present
and future. In his spare time, he enjoys working on Open
Source projects, developing useful applications and sharing
them with the world.
Brent Billock
Brent is the flash guru for Chicago Web Management and
has been developing web sites since 1997. His previous
stints included time at Hal Riney Advertising (Top-50
firm in USA) and Ala Carte Entertainment (Chicago's largest
nightclub/restaurant company, owners of Excalibur,
Magnum's and 16 other restaurants and nightclubs). Brent
has a business degree from Adrian college and is originally
from Detroit.
In addition, Brent has created compelling
web content, CD-ROMs, and DVD-ROMs for a variety of clients
including Kraft Foods, Kellogg's Crescent Cardboard, Cartoon
Network, AOL, Allegra, Dodge and the Chicago Mercantile
Exchange.
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