The Team
Experienced, imaginative, easygoing, inspiring
Mario Garcia Jr.
Mario Garcia Jr., President of Garcia Interactive, is a news designer with more than 15 years experience in helping newspapers, magazines, and web sites package and present news and information more effectively. He has led online redesign projects for over 100 organizations, including The Wall Street Journal, The Hindu, Newsday, Crains New York and La Tribune (France). He is a regular speaker at news media and design conferences.
John Duncan
John joined Garcia Interactive in 2006 after leading the turnaround of the Observer newspaper in London from 2000 to 2005. John, who has an MBA from the London Business School, was the strategist behind the launch of three award-winning monthly magazines in the paper, and led the Observer's online operation to become the fastest growing part of Guardian Unlimited. John is our head of PreDesign.
Carl Smith
Carl Smith founded nGen Works, a digital design and interface development company, in 2003. He has led teams that have won the New York Art Directors Award for Interactive Development and two National C.A.S.E. awards for Educational Web Development. Carl also has been featured in Kelly Goto’s best-selling book, “Web Redesign: Workflow That Works” and speaks on the importance of establishing trust at technology conferences around North America.
Jeff Croft
Jeff Croft is a user-interface designer and co-author of two books, “Pro CSS Techniques” and “Web Standards Creativity.” He also worked with World Online, the renowned web division of The Lawrence Journal-World newspaper. Recognized as one of the 30 most influential people in web design, he travels the world talking about design and promoting web standards and other best practices.
Brian Fling
Brian is a frequent speaker and author on the issues on mobile design, the mobile web and mobile user experience. He was the primary author of the free dotMobi Mobile Web Developer's guide , downloaded thousands of times over. He is currently writing O'Reilly Media's first "animal" book on mobile, Mobile Design and Development due out later this year.
Dan Rubin
Dan is a designer, programmer, singer and writer. He is one of the leading voices of modern compliant web design and is a sought after speaker at web design conferences and events. His credits with Garcia Interactive include Mint (India) and Crains New York.
John Miller
John Miller has worked as an art director and editor at numerous publications including Vanity Fair, HarperrCollins and Esquire. He has helped numerous companies re-engineer or create their web presence including the New Yorker and San Francisco Chronicle. He has worked with Garcia Media on projects for clients as diverse as the Department of Defense, Target, Newsday and Gulf News.
Frank Traina
Frank is Garcia Interactive’s project manager, the glue that keeps everything together. Frank has managed projects simultaneously for clients as far apart as India, the United States and Mexico. Frank’s background is in advertising having worked at the production coalface for four years at major agencies.
Mike Martino
Mike Martino has over 14 years experience designing and implementing sales strategies to sell both print and online advertising using a traditional “feet in the street” sales force. With his leadership, his team designed and executed plans supporting over 20,000 advertiser accounts, involving all aspects of a $3.5 million budget for revenue and expenses, including generating and rolling out new products, training sales forces, designing marketing plans, and managing the challenges of a distributed sales force.
