Annette Gildea
President, CEO


Ollie Interactive founder Annette Gildea has been online longer than the White House, the UN, the prime minister of Japan, and banner ads. She began by designing corporate Intranet sites for UPS in 1991, and later honed her skills at a tiny start-up called Excalibur Group, which later became Road Runner -- Time Warner's broadband ISP. As Road Runner's Director of Product Design, Annette mastered all things online, overseeing everything from design, production, content development and feature writing, to third-party product integration, QA, co-branding, and product migration. She left the company in 2001 and founded Gildea Media Group -- now known as Ollie Interactive. Annette has served the National Academy of Engineering's "Women in Engineering" program since 2000 as a member of their Advisory Committee. She has appeared on NPR's "Diane Rehm Show" as a subject matter expert on women in Internet technology, and is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Habitat for Humanity of Northern Virginia. She holds an M.A. from Temple University, and has studied art and design at the Parson's School of Design in NYC, where her favorite color was and still is PMS021.

Tanya Zimmerli, PMP
Project Management Director


Tanya has over 15 years experience in the software/Internet industry. She, a certified project manager, brings her broad technology background to the management of both large and small projects. She has worked on software products in search engine technology, online donations, content management and grant management as well as Internet functionality for online medical education, executive reporting, online bill presentment, structured data search, photo galleries, games, and a wide range of e-commerce sites. Here at Ollie, Tanya is our "voice of reason".

Christian Cunnane
Account Manager


From unique messaging and corporate identities for start ups, to national advertising and awareness campaigns for multi-billion dollar Federal Agencies, Christian has worked with businesses across industries providing each with unmatched client service and strategic communications insight. Pulling from experiences across multiple disciplines, including business strategy, brand development, and communication planning, Christian has successfully led clients from "back of the napkin" brainstorming sessions to full-scale brand roll-outs.

Phil Freo
Developer


Phil loves making the web look good and work well. He can design beautiful user interfaces one day, and database schemas the next. Whether it be with PHP, Javascript, CSS, ExpressionEngine, or Photoshop, he enjoys the challenge of making the web look good and work well. While earning his recent degree in computer science (cum laude!), Phil held prestigious internships at both Yahoo! and Google.

Sam Rooeintan
Designer


Sam is like the Swiss Army knife of graphic design. He can switch from web to print to video to audio to architecture and back to web with ease. Since 1998 he's worked for the likes of Discovery Channel, Network Solutions, and Washington Post among others. For nearly 10 years he played professional basketball (!) for his native country. He still plays basketball today, but rather than getting paid for it he has to pay to play. How times have changed.

Heidi Magnuson
Designer


Heidi is an award-winning designer with a local and national clientele. She has worked with clients to update web sites, create new marketing materials, and print exciting publications. Heidi's design has even been recognized for its excellence by HOW magazine, the Web Marketing Association, and the Association of Education Publishers. She brings almost two decades of agency, corporate, and association design experience to every project; and backs that experience with an impeccable attention to detail. She is a magna cum laude graduate, with honors, from Syracuse University, Newhouse School of Communications.

Doug Fuller
Designer


Doug Fuller is a father of three, husband of one, and designer of more than a hundred logos in almost 20 years. He does freelance identity work for small businesses and nonprofit clients throughout the region, and has a tremendous ability to see the forest AND the trees -- and work them all into one single, powerful mark. In his spare time, he scours area roads for rusted metal that he uses to create "art."

Jessica Piscitelli
Videographer


Jessica has been working in TV, film, and video for more than 10 years. She studied film and television production at NYU's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts. After graduating with honors and a BFA in Film and TV Production, she worked in the feature film industry in New York City alongside such directors as Jim Jarmusch, Todd Solondz, and Ed Harris. She also runs a screenwriting workshop and prose workshop and is a contributing performer at the Washington D.C. Speakeasy performing arts venue.

Estela Rueda
Administrative Assistant


Estela has worked as an AA for as long as she can remember, in many countries, with many interesting people and such exciting projects. She was a member of: the founding team of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, a nonprofit global organization - USA (she met some of the world's most influential people and politicians - too bad this was long before Bill Gates and Bono); the group that developed the public policy for Mexican ex-president Vicente Fox when he was State Governor - Mexico; the team that built the optical network throughout Europe - The Netherlands. After motherhood, Estela discovered that design is her real passion so she is back in school pursuing a degree in web-design. In the mean time, she keeps us organized here at Ollie, where she is our AA.

Daniel Emberley
Business Manager


Dan has a knack for bringing order out of chaos -- not that there's any chaos at Ollie, but we all believe we have Dan to thank for that. After 9-11, he helped create the database to answer questions aimed at the Department of Transportation -- the first agency to tell people what to do in the hours after the attacks. He's also run the Archives at the National Academy of Sciences, and put Donald Trump's home mortgage files on microfilm. THAT's how organized he is.