Our Team

Below is the eVision Media team here to help you.

Susan Friesen, President

Founder and President Susan Friesen brings a unique advantage to eVision Media clients by having earned a Bachelor in Business Administration degree with a concentration in Computer Information Systems through the Thompson River's University.

Her eleven years of experience in the Web Development industry has gained her much insight and knowledge in how to create an effectively designed and search engine friendly website. She is a graduate of the Vancouver Film School Multi-Media program and also earned several certificates in technology through the University of Victoria and Athabasca University.

She won the 2003-2004 Governor General's Bronze Academic Award for achieving the highest academic standing in a diploma-level post secondary program.

Susan is a past webmaster for the collectively-owned Hollinger websites such as The Vancouver Sun, The Province, Vancouver Today and others (they are all now under the canada.com umbrella). She currently works with Tourism BC on the North American www.hellobc.com website, as well as the UK and Australian sister sites.

Susan is a member of the Women Designer's Group, a member-based community of women entrepreneurs in web design and development.

Get to know more about Susan here and
Read this interview with Susan and eVision Media here.

 

Daniel Simmons, SEO / SEM Specialist

Daniel is the SEO Certified Specialist for eVision Media. He has extensive experience in all aspects of website optimization, eMarketing, web analytics, SEM, social media, article marketing and pay per click advertising. He has over 5 years experience with an excellent portfolio and provides manual, world-class services for many service and product-based websites. Daniel also has the rare privilege of having a Google support staff at his disposal for all AdWords accounts.

Daniel has earned a Bachelors degree from San Diego State University in Criminal Justice and Public Administration and well as Associate degrees from The University of Phoenix in Accounting and Grossmont College in Criminal Law.

 

Kelsie Lengert, Graphic Designer

Kelsie is an energetic Graphic designer & Illustrator that graduated with a diploma from the IDEA program at Capilano U. Proficient in Indesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator she loves taking on new challenges. When she's not designing she can be found in front of her easel painting with oils, in the kitchen experimenting with new flavours or on the North Shore mountain biking downhill.

Matt Smith, Programmer & Front End Developer

Matt is in the Computer Information Systems (CIS) degree program at the University of the Fraser Valley. He is proficient in XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Action Script, jQuery,YUI3. He mainly works with Adobe Fireworks, Photoshop, Flash Pro, Dreamweaver and After Effects. He also enjoys learning about the mobile web and cross-platform app development.

Andrew McGowan, Programmer & Project Manager

When Andrew entered university he was an aspiring young actor with incredible potential, when he left university he was an old but competent programmer with a Bachelor of Computer Information Systems specializing in Software Engineering. While this seems like a major career change, it's not surprising since Andrew became interested in computers in his youth. Since delving into programming as early as elementary school learning qBasic, Andrew has discovered such wonders as Visual Basic, C#, Flash, Flex, MySQL, PHP, CSS, Java, JavaScript and the list just won't stop no matter how hard he tries! Surprisingly Andrew can be sighted out in the wild while snowboarding, wakeboarding, playing hockey, running, hiking, and mountain biking. He's just like a real boy! Even if his friends are still instant on calling him Antron MechGowan the Robot...

Dana Alberts, Programmer

Dana is a graduate from the UFV BCIS program majoring in Software and Security and minoring in Criminology. He has been a programmer since 2006 and continues to learn new languages and techniques all the time. There aren't very many programming problems Dana can't solve as he is competent in many languages including PHP, MySQL and many others.

Preston St. Pierre, Programmer / Network Administrator

A web developer who started in elementary and sold his first professional site in high school, Preston has continued over the years to hone his skills with various languages and technologies. As an avid fan of web standards he insists on using XHTML/CSS to create website interfaces. With over eight years of experience using PHP/MySQL he is primarily a web applications programmer, having created a browser based content management system, a game development framework and task sharing software. In addition to programming, Preston is also a professional writer and motocross instructor.

Jeffrey Pernitsky, Server Administrator / Programmer

Jeffrey has eleven years experience in designing and programming websites for non-profit organizations, hobbyist, and small & large businesses. He holds a Degree in Computer Information Systems (CIS) majoring in Security, from the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV). He is currently working to complete his Masters of Science in Information Systems (MSc IS) from the University of Athabasca (AU).

His main areas of expertise are Server Security, Networking, Data Migration and Backup Management. His other skills include HTML, HTML5, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, Action Script, XML, Flex, Java, C++, VB.net, MySQL, Oracle, and a growing array of others.

When he's not at the computer or running cable, he enjoys hiking, biking, kayaking, sailing, music, and road trips.

Christina Adkins, Graphic Designer

Having achieved a Graphic Design Diploma with High Honours, Christina went on to complete her graphic design training at the Design Studio London UK. In 2006, Christina emigrated from England to Canada and has a passion for Design and the Arts and enjoys creating abstract Cityscapes. In her spare time, you will find she also has a love for singing, songwriting and recording.

We also have some talented individuals that we consider part of our team and work on an "as needed" basis. This allows us to ensure we can fulfil any request asked of us by our clients. Many thanks to the following people who are ready to help when needed:

• Tim Packer, Graphic Designer
• JiYoung Kim, Graphic Designer
• Lucy Zhang, Programmer
• Warren Brown, Programmer
• Andy Gilson, Programmer