Meet our newest Project Manager!

We’d like to formally introduce our newest interactive project manager, Laura Nash. Laura joined us mid-September after completing a cross-country move from Seattle, Washington. She’s got years of experience producing digital media from concept development through post-launch strategy. Her production background includes work for Random House, Disney Online, Penguin Books, and Discovery Networks. In her spare time, Laura loves directing and stage managing theater.

As Interactive Project Manager at Manning, Laura will provide leadership on individual projects as well as overall creative vision and direction. She is especially well versed in app development and promotion. Oh, and if you aren’t sold on her yet — Celine Dion once sang her Happy Birthday. You’ve got to admit that’s pretty cool.

Mitch McLachlan – Project Manager

Mitch McLachlan

We’re always looking for ways to improve our work and one of the areas we’ve been looking at most closely is workflow. It takes a great deal of creativity, planning, and production to successfully develop a new website.  We are proud to announce that we are promoting Mitch from Associate Producer into a new role as Project Manager. Mitch will be helping to implement complex multimedia sites, including e-commerce, content management systems, and other large data-driven applications.  Mitch has already been a versatile part of the Manning team involved in many of our recent large web projects.

We hope you’ll join us in congratulating Mitch in his new position.

If you’ve worked with us before hopefully you’ve had the pleasure of working with Kirk Berryman and Patrick Mouser. If not, here are just a few of the reasons why both were recently promoted and why we’re very excited about it.

Patrick Mouser – Art Director

Patrick Mouser

In his new role as Art Director, Patrick will extend his creative leadership beyond web design to include visual supervision of all Manning work including film and video. Many of our projects are multifaceted, so this will allow us to provide greater creative and visual continuity across media types and platforms.

This is a natural extension of the strategic design role Patrick has played on a numerous client projects including the American Bar Association, Stryker, First Student and others. This will also allow Patrick to use more of the branding, print and television design skills he developed as an award-winning ad agency designer before joining Manning.

Kirk Berryman – Senior Producer

Kirk Berryman

Kirk joined Manning more than two years ago and quickly proved himself invaluable. Kirk’s knowledge of web development, search engine marketing and video production combined with his own entrepreneurial background has made him a tremendous asset from both a creative and business perspective.

As Senior Producer, Kirk will continue to provide the strong leadership he has shown on projects for the American Bar Association, COUNTRY Financial, the Metavante Corporation, and others. In addition to taking on more web and video assignments, Kirk will also be putting his entrepreneurial skills to work helping coordinate Manning’s creative growth and business development.

We hope that you’ll join us in congratulating Patrick and Kirk on their promotions and wish them well in their new roles.