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Jenifer Levini, President and Chief Imagineer
The driving force and creative energy behind Web Presence, Jenifer leveraged her marketing background while employed by a website design firm in New York, and was one of first to integrate marketing services that helped clients move beyond a simple web presence, to develop communication techniques and drive traffic to their sites. Since moving into the web development field in 1994, she has contributed to innumerable websites both as an employee at one of the first web development firms in the U.S. and later after launching Web Presence. Her marketing credits include developing a highly successful campaign for the SCUBA diving industry in Southern California in the 1980's; setting up a new distribution channel for Sea Studios in Monterey by introducing a marine biology education program through the nationwide Elderhostel system; developing a strategic marketing program for a subsidiary of the M&T Bank chain in New York, among others. She has done inbound and outbound marketing and marketing communication for large and small businesses, non-profits, and gov't agencies. Additionally, Jenifer has worked as an assistant editor and writes a monthly Internet column for a business magazine. Her education includes a Bachelor's degree with Honors from University of California at Santa Cruz, a Masters from San Francisco State and graduate studies at Cornell University.

A highly involved community member and respected businesswoman, Jenifer helped the Santa Rosa Junior College's Computer Department pioneer their Web Developer Certificate Program. She founded and was the first Chairperson of the Sonoma County Web Developers SIG; graduate of Leadership Santa Rosa; President of the Board of Leadership Santa Rosa Alumni Association; a SCORE/SBA (Service Corp of Retired Executives/Small Business Administration) advisor for an annual E-Business Conference, steering committee member at Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce, director for Caring Strangers; and is a volunteer at Madrone Elementary School. Jenifer is also a member of Univ. Calif., Santa Cruz Alumni Association and a prospective student interviewer for Cornell University.

Graphic Design Department

Gordon Smith
After a fifteen year career as an Art Director for major magazines, including winning several Western Publications Assn. Maggie Awards, Gordon decided to get out of the rat race and enter the burgeoning field of web design in 1994. After perfecting his skills including Quark, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Frame Maker, Flash, Illustrator, and Power Point, he joined Web Presence in 1997. He still loves print and projects that include 4c publication skills, logo design, trade-show booth design, and the full spectrum of pre-press design.

Kurt West
Kurt received formal training in Graphic Communication at California State University, Chico. His design work has been recognized with awards including Northern California Addy Awards and Sonoma County Ad Club Sadie Awards. With over 18 years experience in visualizing information, Kurt has the unique ability to create campaigns, packaging, websites, and power point presentations, that convey the gestalt as well as the message. A
strong believer in giving back to his community, he is assisting the Sonoma County Housing Coalition promote low income housing projects in the county, and helps Sonoma Land Trust preserve open space through funding and informational campaigns.

Verónica Biscay
In the heart of Córdoba, Argentina, Verónica finds that being geographically far away inspires her design work and the Internet brings the world into her studio. She gained local and international recognition for her designs which include logos, book covers, websites, and magazine layouts. She believes that well-done designs tell as much as words. For that she want to create designs which titillate new sensations. Being multi-lingual she adds a dash of Latin spice to the design offerings at Web Presence.

Graphic designers that work with us include:
Amit Bhaiya based in New Jersey,
Joseph Lover in Minnesota
Yana Downing in New York,
Era Kiss in Cluj-Napoca, Romania,
Crvenk Venkatesh in Madurain, India,
Derek Richer in Bristol, United Kingdom

Programming & Database Department

Robert Mandel
With a BA in Physics and Mathematics from Boston University, a Master's Degree from Humboldt State and fifteen years professional programming experience Bob brings expertise in VB Programming, GIS Programming (ArcView/ArcIMS), Integrated dynamic page content, ASP programming, Javascript/DHTML, JAVA, XML, and legacy application integration. We haven't found anything Bob can't do. But we'll keep trying.

Joe Najoukas
Formerly President of Grapevine Studios, Joe realized that he loves the meticulous, methodical parts of making complicated websites function. His accomplishments include, among others, building a tremendous, intelligent database for the New York Times Digital website, that tracks preferences of visitors and creates custom experiences when they re-visit the site. Joe is experienced with many e-commerce systems, and manages our Linux web server.

Lilith (Paula) Schwindeman
Lilith, a graduate of the Web Certificate Program at Santa Rosa Junior College, is our Jill-of-all-trades. From HTML, to Javascript, PERL to graphic production and client training, she is able to run with each assignment, making sure that each project and the rest of us are on time and on budget.

Gaurav Agarwal
Armed with a Bachelors in Computer Science from University of Allahabad, India, Gaurav has quickly proved to be a programming treasure trove. He loves to create website automation and specializes in php programming.


Translation Department

Leonardo & Gustavo De Giacomi
When IBM Latin America downsized, Leonardo, former Global Services Customer Satisfaction Latin America South Manager, and Gustavo, former Technical Education Manager, decided to bring their 10+ years writing expertise gained in the Fortune 100 trenches to a broader audience. Native Spanish speakers, both earned bachelors and masters degrees from prestigious Latin American universities. They appreciate the different flavors of Spanish spoken in each Central and South America and European country and provide translations that will be understood by the intended target audience.

Training/Policy Department

Stephen Jackson
Stephen has been doing computer training for the past 5 years on both PC's and Mac's. He currently teaching several computer courses focusing on applications and strategies for increasing productivity with computers. He is a California Credentialed teacher with 10 years of teaching experience with a Bachelors degree in Agri-Business and a Masters degree in Education. Jackson offers both business and marketing consulting as well as computer training services.

Nick Tipon
Nick brings twenty-five years of classroom teaching experience. His expertise includes development of network and Internet policies to ensure appropriate uses of the technology. Other experience includes coordinating plans for implementing technology and networks in large, medium, and small companies and gov't agencies. If your organization intends to move strongly into the Internet environment it's important to have policies in place.

Marketing Department

Lisa Henry
Lisa Henry, a Sonoma County native, was born to be in marketing. She brings over six-years television production, as well as non-profit outreach campaign expertise from her previous position as KRCB auction manager. Lisa managed and directed one of the largest fundraising events in the North Bay, the KRCB Auction 22! Raising well over one million dollars, she successfully executed a multifaceted promotion campaign with a budget of $0, and a staff of three, three times per year. Using the strong relationships she built with local, national and international businesses she successfully procured over $300,000 in goods and services each year, in exchange for a brief mention on the televised auction, pre-auction direct mail pieces and advertisements. She arranged and produced all local television, cable, radio and print promotions including fantastic media placement such as the cover of the Press Democrat TV Week booklet the weekend before the event every year, prime-time cable ad slots and drive-time radio ad slots, and extremely creative outreach promotion, for example on Food 4 Less grocery bags (again produced in house) for 2 weeks prior to each event. Lisa managed a direct mail campaign with 100,000+ database of buyers, donors and volunteers. To pull off this incredible feat, year after year, she recruited and retained a volunteer force of over 100 people who happily return every year.

Alyson Dutch
With more than fifteen years of in-house and agency publicity and promotional experience, Alyson Dutch has provided successful public relations and promotion to clients in corporate arenas, the music industry, personalities, tourism, the arts, special events, television production, film distribution, fashion and beauty. Notable clients have included hospitality giants, Rio Hotel, Las Vegas and Host Marriott Services; healthcare provider, FHP Healthcare; Mike Love's Club Kokomo theme restaurant; the music industry's Platinum Records' artist Kali Kornas well as The Beach Boys.
Alyson served as head of Baker/Winokur/Ryder's international entertainment division from 1993-96. As such, she oversaw an assortment of clients that include Sun International, the worlds third largest resort/casino conglomerate and owners of famed Sun City and Sowetan musical artist/composer Lebo M, who received a Grammy for his arrangement of "The Lion King" soundtrack. Her clientele has also included the Chaka Khan/Ladysmith Black Mambazo Tour in South Africa; the Southwest Museum; the Jamaica Film and Entertainment Commission; America Online's "Zima Talk;" Colin Cowie; Catherine Bach, star of the Family Channel's "African Skies," show on location South Afrca; Global Partners/ Amy Biehl Foundation's South African Ballot Campaign; the Telephone Entertainment Network; the Hard Rock Café in Cabo San Lucas; Mike Love of The Beach Boys; and, KIIS-FM, Los Angeles' #1 radio station.
As manager of public relations at Madison Square Garden Event Productions for five and one half years, she generated publicity and promotions for three major network television specials each year, oversaw two outside PR agencies and created an updated image for the corporation. During her tenure, Dutch consulted on location in Bangkok, Thailand, Taipei, Republic of China, Cancun, Mexico and across the United States, producing a valuable contact base and understanding of international and domestic public relations. In 1996 Dutch received a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award for her participation in the production of a documentary titled, "Suicide: A Teenage Dilemma."


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