Mike Monteiro
Design Director
Mike Monteiro
Design Director
Mike brings more than a decade of experience creating outstanding visual and interactive design. He has served as lead visual designer for ReliefWeb, Six Apart, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and for the Glaucoma Research Foundation. He excels in creating visual interface systems to aid navigation and clarify complex content. He’s also funny.
Mike founded Mule Design in 2001 along with Erika Hall.
Mike received his BA in Fine Art from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and his MFA in Graphic Design from University of Texas, Austin.
Erika Hall
Lead Strategist
Erika Hall
Lead Strategist
Erika, a founding partner, has been working in Web design and development since 1995. Her specialties are audience-centered strategy, content development, branding, and information architecture. She provided user research and design strategy for ReliefWeb, and was the lead information architect in redesigns for the Glaucoma Research Foundation, Six Apart, College Track, and 826 Valencia, among others. In previous agency roles, Erika has worked with a diverse array of clients including Electronic Arts (Content Strategy), EXPN (Community Strategy), and Xerox (Writing and Project Management). She began her career in Web design on the technical side, developing websites for IDG, a global leader in technology publishing.
Erika received her BA in Philosophy from Dartmouth College.
David McCreath
Lead Developer
David McCreath
Lead Developer
David has worked on the web since 1994, pre-dating even Netscape 1.0. In that time he has been a designer, a developer, a programmer, a project manager, and a creative director. His single purpose with every job is to make the web a little more usable and to make it better for the user, and believes the path to this enlightenment is standards-compliant code and semantically sound pages. His understanding of the entire development process helps him bridge gaps between disciplines often found in web development teams.
David received his BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas, Austin.
Rebecca Bortman
Designer
Rebecca Bortman
Designer
Rebecca joined us from Cooper where she was a visual design consultant. She has worked on interactive projects for Motorola, Dolby, and Cigna; motion graphics for Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Handsblue Magazine; and book design for Wiley Publishing and The Minnesota Review. She is also the artistic director for The Disposable Film Festival and her band, My First Earthquake.
Rebecca has a BFA in Communication Design with a minor in poetry from Carnegie Mellon University.
Shawna Seth
Project Manager
Shawna Seth
Project Manager
Shawna came to Mule from SolutionSet where she was a project manager for brand, design, and technology projects. While with SolutionSet, she co-led a year-long rebrand and global marketing campaign for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, steered design & development for the online community at Kaboose.com, and managed multi-focus engagements for a wide variety of clients. Prior to entering the world of project management, Shawna worked for public relations firm the Horn Group on media and analyst relations for enterprise technology companies including Novell and Motorola Good Technology Group.
Shawna earned her BA in Sociology with a focus in media studies from Vassar College.
Katie Gillum
Research & Relationships
Katie Gillum
Research & Relationships
Katie came to our company after working in Ireland as an educational and advocacy media producer and educator. Partnering with Dublin Apple Regional Training Centre and other local education groups, she gave talks, produced curricula, and lead workshops and courses about digital storytelling and creativity and utilizing digital and social media for non-profit and advocacy work. She has conducted social and health research in a variety of contexts and thrives on understanding the systems that shape and guide human behavior. In addition to her work with us, Katie continues her work as a director and producer of digital video and audio projects with small nonprofits and local artists.
Katie has a BA in Anthropological Sciences with a minor in Creative Writing from Stanford University and a MA in Visual Anthropology-Ethnographic Documentary Film from University of Manchester.
Who We Are
We are listeners, questioners, and collaborative problem-solvers. We are passionate advocates for your audience. We are smart, experienced, and polished. We are designers who get things done.
Why We’re Here
We’re out to build a company that succeeds by creating excellent experiences on behalf of good people. As designers, we ask not only how best to solve a problem, but why. We want our work to make a positive difference in the world. And we want to have a good time doing it, too.
