Digital Dogs, Inc.
 

Our Team

, Co-Founder/Chief Technical Officer

Mike BlumMike has the responsibility for all Web programming and technical development at Digital Dogs. His focus is finding technology solutions to business problems, and he has over eleven years experience providing Internet marketing and e-commerce solutions for organizations such as American Express, Arizona State University, Avnet, Computer Associates, and Motorola. Mike holds his degree from the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, California, and worked in industrial/scientific photography before turning to Web technologies in the early 1990s.


, Co-Founder/Chief Creative Officer

Richard has twenty years experience in graphic design, and more than seven years experience in the development of Web-based graphical user interfaces. He has produced Web interfaces for companies such as Cyclone Commerce, Guess Jeans, Motorola, and Stroud's Linens. Rich earned his Fine Arts degree from the University of Arizona and worked as art director for a litigation graphics firm in Los Angeles before moving his family to Phoenix in 1995. Rich's responsibilities at Digital Dogs include art direction, brand imagery development, graphic design, and project management.


, Account Manager

Colleen brings over twenty years experience in client relations, project management, marketing communications, advertising and eleven years of web development and support. She has a proven track record of helping such organizations as Apollo Group, Centex Homes, Cyclone Commerce and Motorola, build quality relationships with internal & external clients, improve brand awareness and exceed sales goals. Colleen grew up in the Valley of the Sun, earned a B.A. in Psychology from CSU Long Beach and holds an Arizona real estate license. Colleen currently holds the position of Account Manager at Digital Dogs.


, Project Manager/Senior Programmer Analyst

Natasha brings over twelve years of Web development experience to Digital Dogs. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from ASU, and her Masters in e-Commerce Technology at DePaul University. Her experiences at Hubbard One, Motorola, Voxcap, and Xerox sharpened her programming skills while helping companies manage their Internet communications. Natasha's responsibilities include serving as Project Manager, product manager for Contrado, programming and maintaining custom Web sites, creating email marketing campaigns and training clients on how to use CMS tools.


, Senior Developer

Tim's career began in the field of web engineering and development. As Sr. Web Developer, Tim uses advanced developing techniques to customize websites, modify existing sites, and create web-based applications. Tim works closely with our design team to take a two dimensional design concept and develop it into a fully-functioning, interactive website using the latest technologies and applications. Tim is proficient in AJAX, CSS, HTML, Javascript, Joomla, X-Cart, OsCommerce, JQuery, LAMP, Linux, MySQL, PHP, PHPFox, Ruby on Rails, Smarty Template Engine, SQL, VBscript, Visual Basic.Net, XML.


, Intern/Developer

Ed is an intern at Digital Dogs. As a Developer, Ed uses advanced developing techniques to customize websites, and modify existing sites. Ed works closely with the development team on updating and creating websites using the latest technologies and applications. Ed is proficient in CSS, HTML, Javascript, Joomla, X-Cart, OsCommerce, Wordpress, Linux, MySQL, PHP, and XML.




, Office Manager

Lisa has over 17 years of retail sales and buying experience at Dillards and Robinsons/May which developed her passion for working with numbers. This coupled with 2 years experience as a quality assurance analyst for JDA Software, a retail software company, transitioned her into the computer world. Lisa earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Fashion Merchandising & Marketing from the University of Arizona. She now serves as Digital Dogs bookkeeper doing accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, budget analysis, and financial statements.


, Senior Programmer

Milos has over eight years of experience in web development, and at Digital Dogs he is a senior programmer. He has a Master's degree in Telecommunications from the College of Transportation and Traffic Engineering. He has extensive experience in working with a multitude technologies used to create web sites and complex web applications such as PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, MySQL, MSSQL, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, C#, VB.NET, Silverlight, Flex, jQuery, actionscript. He's also proficient in Symfony, ZendFramework, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Smarty, LAMP. He codes in Linux, Windows and Mac operating environments. In the past, he worked intensively on the development of desktop applications and 2D and 3D games.


, Senior Developer

Vladan serves as Digital Dogs' principal Java programmer and lead architect for our Contrado product line. His responsibilities include ongoing Contrado development and technical management of C++ and Java projects. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Belgrade, and worked for FilmEcNet in Los Angeles and PCTEL in Chicago prior to joining the Digital Dogs' team. Visit our Jobs section for details on joining our team.
  • Adding the Internet as a sales channel to improve revenues;
  • Automating or streamlining business processes to improve efficiency and cut costs; or Expanding communications and interaction opportunities to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty.
  • Providing their customers with value-added services delivered over the Internet;
  • Using Internet tools or utilities as a market differentiator in their industry; or Building unique Internet solutions to establish thought or technology leadership.
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