Mark Boulton runs his own studio, Mark Boulton Design and the co-founder of small indie publisher, Five Simple Steps, a publisher hell-bent on producing simple and practical books for the web professional.
Mark started designing web sites when he was the ‘young guy’ in the studio back in 1997 and he’s been banging on about applying the fundamentals of good graphic design on the web ever since. He is the author of the bestselling ‘Designing for the Web’ and is currently working on writing more books. The fool.
Based in Brighton, UK. Specialise in building large scale high traffic Drupal sites for clients including Cartoon Network and http://holymoly.com, along with supporting charity sites including http://booksforkeeps.co.uk.
Michael is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Internet Strategist for Trellon, LLC. Michael's work with Trellon has been focused on the non-profit, academic and socially responsible business sectors, with a specific emphasis on environmental, social justice and open source issues. He has a passion for interoperability and deploying Drupal in high performance environments. Recently, he helped scale the Earth Day web site to handle over 80 million page requests in a 48 hour period.
Objective: To increase the awareness and effective use of the internet and web technology in small to medium-sized businesses through consulting and website design.
Education:
Digital Media, George Brown College, Toronto, Canada
B. of Comp. Sci. Honours, Carleton U., Ottawa, Canada
Experience:
IT Consultant / Senior Programmer Analyst, Canadian Urban Institute, Toronto, Canada
Drupal / CiviCRM Project Coordinator http://canurb.org/
IT Consultant, Abbott Medical Optics Inc., Toronto, Canada