Trevor’s organizational skills and love for advertising make him a great fit as the Lead Project Manager for Ciesa. Trevor works in collaboration with the entire Ciesa team, managing web accounts, design scheduling, processes and billings for the office. Trevor knows the importance of great creative work, but he’s a firm believer that truly great creative work is done efficiently. He has always jumped on the opportunity to be a leader, which led him to be the current President of the Mid-Michigan Creative Alliance for two years running. He’s the kind of guy you’ll see in a collared shirt and slacks day in, day out. But what you don’t see, is that his socks are always a bright neon color, a hint of creativity always nipping at his heels.

Since she was old enough to hold a pencil, Amanda has always had an intense passion for creative writing. Coincidentally, her greatest passion just so happens to align with her biggest asset – her unique ability to capture an idea and bring it to life on paper.

With a background in Photography, Design and Video, Craig has the ability to capture any story through any lens. No matter the medium or size of the project, Craig’s passion is to make sure the idea is impactful, fresh and easily understood. He takes pride in being adaptable to the various needs of each project and takes on the challenge of learning something new along the way.

Born in North Carolina, Drew moved to the mitten when he was four, eventually attending Central Michigan University and earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design in May of 2018. He’s a graphic designer, lasagna lover, and problem solver. Drew is the newest member of the Ciesa team, offering knowledge from a wide variety of prior experience. Before taking on the role as Lead Design at Ciesa, Drew has experience working in the printing industry, media graphics industry and higher education. Drew believes it’s his experiences in both his professional and personal life that have molded the weird, instinct driven, charismatic flim-flam graphic designer we call “Drewsiv” around the office.

“Our work gets stronger in the crucible of criticism.”

Kevin is our design technology Jack-of-all-trades. He’ll plan the design, user interface, user experience, and logic of the websites and applications we build. Kevin guides our creative team from initial client discussions through the creation of design solutions. An analytical and conceptual thinker, he offers progressive vision with characteristic humor and enthusiasm for design, technology, and culture. As web design lead, he creates the project concept and blueprint for the developers. Kevin’s industry experience includes projects in healthcare, travel/tourism, business outreach and development, education, transportation/automotive, technology, politics, child welfare, and entertainment.

“Design is in everything we make here. It’s problem-solving.”

Thomas is a lead web developer, with over ten years experience in back- and front-end development, focusing on the LAMP stack, HTML, CSS, and Javascript. He develops the most functional technical solutions for the design direction and engineers ideas into custom, seamless web presentations. Aside from web development, his experience includes database and server administration, and programming for the automotive, healthcare, state government, journalism, advocacy, nonprofit, arts, education, retail economic development, tourism, hospitality and transportation industries.

Wayne grew up in the punk rock era in up-state New York. Soon after moving to Michigan he went to school for Graphic Design with a focus on classic illustration. In the late 90’s, he was able to transition his passion for illustration design onto the digital screen with the invention of the World Wide Web. For the past 15 years, Wayne has been a professional web designer and developer, consistently learning new ways to bring his creations to life on screen. When he isn’t busy typing, Wayne loves watching movies, reading comic books, and all things super-hero related.

“Collaboration is the foundation for great creative work.”

As head of the studio collective, Lauren provides leadership to the creative team. He’ll quietly remind you that the word on the front door that matters most is Design, as he’s passionate to the core about the creative process, and as a result, the talented team that comprises CiesaDesign collaborates to produce creative, innovative, strategic, and award-winning solutions that consistently meet and exceed the needs of their clients. Lauren’s business ethic is imbedded in culture of CiesaDesign, defined by honesty, integrity, hard work, and community engagement. After 30+ years delivering outstanding design communications to national and Mid-Michigan businesses and organizations, Lauren stands by the work.

From Assistant Account Executive to the C-Suite. In his 30+ years in account management at DDB Worldwide, Greg has managed and led local accounts, regional accounts and national accounts. He’s managed offices in many different regions, “international” talent management, client contacts and compensation.

Greg spent eight years in Asia, over 10 years “commuting” between Chicago and New York City and racked up over 11 million frequent flyer miles in the process. In Hank Snow’s words, “I’ve been everywhere, man.” He’s an avid reader, sailor, fly-fisherman, Cubs fan, and still has a pretty decent step-back jumper.

Ross went to the Johannesburg school for art, ballet and music, where his artistic abilities landed him a job as a Junior Art Director in Advertising in 1980. For 36 years, Ross has created and collaborated on advertisements that have directly impacted client’s brands. In his opinion, the real skill Ross learned in advertising is the ability to understand people and how to motivate them.

“Design is delightful!”

Jackie is the kind of project manager you can only dream about. Smart, funny, uber-experienced, and completely obsessed with getting it right. If there’s an error to be found, she’ll catch it (thank heavens)! If there’s a deadline to meet, she’ll beat it! She collaborates on many projects at CiesaDesign, but is most notable for producing the monthly Michigan Bar Journal. Jackie has been working in the graphic arts business for over three decades and has established a stellar reputation as a production artist and project manager as a result of, well, crushing it for 30 years! Earned. Period. But, she’ll be the first to tell you that her education continues at CiesaDesign, as she’s constantly learning and influenced by the talented young designers she now has the privilege to work with. And, happily, occasionally teaching them a thing or two!