About Us
Mark David Anthony
Mark is a quick learning generalist who sees both the forest and the trees, with a balanced grasp of details and focus on results.
Over 20 years experience and a rare combination of technical, business, communication, media, and people skills lie behind his capacity to identify and align business and technology needs.
First and foremost he’s a communicator, at his best when analyzing complex needs and problems and transforming them into clear solutions and communications. In other words, Mark is pretty damned good at making things easy to understand and at turning chaos into order.
Possessing a uniquely intuitive ability to get to the root of business pain, organizational roadblocks, system failures, process breakdowns and communication impasses, Mark’s success often springs from his ability to help people see things in new ways and from new perspectives.
Mark is driven by a passion for user-centered design and usability.
Mark’s love for technology and all things geeky goes beyond an appreciation for gadgets and apps to a deep curiosity about human/technology interaction and its effects on popular culture and individual and social identity. His Master’s thesis was a study of blogging as social action.
More interested in the big picture and strategy than being the guy who sits and codes for days on end (though he does that, too), Mark thrives when working on analysis, design, planning, writing, usability, and social media. At his best when faced with a variety of new challenges and projects, he would rather work with people than to hide from them.
In addition to holding a CSSA (Certified SonicWALL Security Administrator), multiple IBM and HP certifications, and a long history of IT experience, Mark also has a wealth of practical business and management experience, having worked in the past in jobs as diverse as Marine private, small town newspaper reporter, Senior Department Head in a billion dollar public company, and University Instructor of English.
Bob Sawyer
Bob Sawyer has been designing web sites since 1996. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. He got his first Internet account in 1995, and shortly thereafter began building his own web sites from scratch.
Bob got his first computer in 1983 – a Tandy (RadioShack) ColorComputer with a cassette-tape drive. This began a life-long love affair with computers, programming, and graphics.
In 2008, after being laid off from his corporate job, Bob started Pixels and Code, a web design/development studio specializing in web sites for startups and small businesses. In 2009, Bob became reacquainted with Mark, an old college friend, and the two began hatching plans for a partnership that would become Green Dog Interactive.
Over the years, Bob has developed numerous custom content management systems, shopping carts, and dynamic sites for personal and professional use. Bob specializes in developing sites using the CodeIgniter framework, as well as developing custom WordPress installations for businesses and organizations of all sizes.
Bob is very much detail-oriented and, while capable of “seeing the forest,” prefers to look at individual trees. He loves a challenge, and particularly enjoys working out complicated coding and stylesheet problems.
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