Josh plays a major role in the strategic, creative and technological phases of a project. His job is to dissect and interpret the essence of a project so to deliver it at its greatest potential. His unlimited appetite for the hypothetical feeds his tireless perfectionism.
Josh hails from St. Louis, MO where he spent many summers cutting grass with his dad. He studied Mathematics at Macalester College, plays competitive chess and bangs on the piano.
Helen's role at Fuzzco is art direction and project management. She also has a heavy hand in the strategic and creative development of our projects. In the end, she believes in mixing opposites and producing clean, organized work.
Helen was born in Charleston, SC and attended Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. She delights in eating candy, running in the middle of the night, making art and catching lizards. She is also semi-responsible for doing Melanie's hair.
Erik is stronger than everyone at Fuzzco put together. He handles our back-ends and makes our websites go. It is thought that Erik could out-code Hal 9000. You might think he eats PCP and steroids for breakfast but this is not so. He invites only happy-body foods into his corporal system.
Erik is one of those people who moved here from Ohio, but we still like him anyway. He received a BS in Computer Science from Miami of Ohio, worked for Progressive Insurance, and then moved to Charleston, SC to be the Lead Developer at Blackbaud before joining us.
Melanie is Fuzzco’s designer-developer Ladon. She's cooler than a 10 year old, smarter than a 70 year old and has the writing skills and sharp wit to prove it. Her design sensibilities verge frighteningly close to perfection.
She churned out her first website in 6th grade and reigned as Prez Supreme of her class in the UF Graphic Design program. Melanie is vegetarian, so it's great to know that she wouldn't murder and eat us if we were stuck in the office without food.
Blake is a designer, illustrator, front end developer, good-guy. He comes to us from Miami, FL with a recent stint in Austin, TX. He has done freelance projects for Warner Music, Patagonia, Hot Topic, Hugo Boss, Converse, Fiat, Fader Magazine, Hachette Publishing, SF Chamber of Commerce and the Virgin Group.
When he is not designing, illustrating, coding or deciding which of his 3 worldly possessions to interact with, Blake likes reading, biking, drinking coffee and trying to convince Mason's dog to love him more than Mason.
Jon is so good at writing and thinking that he writes about thinking about writing his thoughts down. He once spent time in the trenches of Washington, D.C. as the communications director for a six-term member of Congress and is very glad he escaped. Jon has ghostwritten a New York Times bestselling book and counseled Fortune 500 companies, bestselling authors, and national non-profit organizations. He's great at getting attention for his clients, earning them coverage in outlets including The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Fox News, CNN and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Caleb is a thinker with an overdeveloped attention to detail. He prepared for his role at Fuzzco by earning a master’s degree in linguistic anthropology from the University of Chicago and a law degree from NYU. No one encouraged him to do this but he did it anyway. His work includes creative and communications project leadership, and he possesses an almost supernatural ability to understand and articulate ideas. Despite his intelligence, he somehow remains shockingly bad at poker.
Dirk is is a developer and systems administrator with a knack for the absurd. While not reminiscing about Fortran or Erlang, Dirk can be found making Javascript miracles and writing custom Rails and PHP applications. Dirk is addicted to orange juice and gets excited about dissecting tape measures and launching them into the air.
When not at work Dirk can be found sitting under citrus trees. He is afraid of animals that weigh less than 12 pounds and dreams of waterfalls of Josh's homemade spaghetti sauce.
