Company
The SiteGoals Team
Simon Erich
Principal/Creative
Simon has been consulting in visual design and user interface for Fortune 500 and Entertainment companies for the last fifteen years. For the first eight years of his career Simon established himself as a design and creative consultant in New York City for some of the largest entertainment and financial companies in the world.
Prior to starting SiteGoals, Simon launched several new media companies. His last company, Ember Media Corporation, introduced the original CD-ROM business card (the "DigiCard") to North America and maintained a high-profile media development company to provide their clients with the development of interactive corporate communications delivered online and on the 'DigiCard'.
Notable clients from his past include a five-year relationship as Citibank's in-house creative director for the corporate communications department and the design and production of hundreds of trading cards for Time/Warner's daughter company DC Comics. Additional clients Simon Erich has worked with include: Mastercard International, American Express, Nickelodeon, HBO, Showtime Inc., The United Nations, Miller Brewing Company, Estée Lauder, RIHGA Royal Hotels, Marvel Comics Group, Sony Online, R/Greenberg Associates, Newsweek, Spin Magazine, Nortel Networks, Emerging Markets Television, Dow Jones & Company, Klemtner Advertising/Saatchi & Saatchi, and ESPN Classics.
An Austin native, Simon enjoys bowling, fishing, rock climbing and video games. In 2006 Simon was selected by Nintento Entertainment Company to be the Austin Ambassador for Nintendo (Yes, that's a real title). As Nintendo's Ambassador he takes his job as a Wii-vangelest very seriously. This also confirms he's a total geek.
Mark Hill
Principal/Technology
Co-Founder and head of technology solutions for SiteGoals, Mark brings a wide gamut of experience and knowledge. A graduate of Texas A&M with a BBA in finance, Mark began his career and spent 10 years working in the stock market as both a bond and stock broker for APS Financial and Protrader.
A talented and diligent programmer, In 1999 Mark turned from the often volatile and unpredictable stock market and began the web services firm BlueNet Design. Mark contributed his expertise in both trading and programming toward developing solutions for Sixthmarket, Inc. by analyzing and developing an automated trading systems that incorporated data from an artificial intelligence application and high-probability stock patterns. This application was then used to monitor and signal entry and exit points used to manage a $5 million dollar hedge fund.
Mark's role as technology team leader for SiteGoals allows him to focus on solving automation, complex database schema and back-end management solutions for a wide range of clientele each with their own set of challenges. Because of his experience providing solutions in a small boutique development company he knows the importance of delivering great customer service, value and satisfaction in each and every facet of his responsibilities with SiteGoals.
James Sharp
Design Lead
Growing up in Pflugerville, James is practically an Austin original. He's always had a creative mind and expressed himself through drawing. College was never really appealing for James until a random commercial for Collins College of Graphic Design appeared on his television one summer day. He was sold instantly on this animation/graphic design opportunity even after finding out it was in the middle of the Arizona desert!
Returning home in 2003, starting his own company wasn't quite doing it for him, so after some soul searching, he was presented with the opportunity to work with his awesome friend Kyle Sanders.
Now, James is the full-time design lead for SiteGoals and having tons of fun!
Hobbies & Interests:
Jesus, Japanese Culture and Language, Drifting/Racing/Modifying and anything else to do with cars, Video Games, Family and Friends, Meeting New People, Traveling, Food, Music, Outdoors and Fun.
Career Goals:
Grow with SiteGoals over the next five to ten years with the dream to move to and open a branch of SiteGoals in Japan.
Joey Monkey
Security/Entertainment Manager
Texas native, Joey Monkey has worked at SiteGoals for his entire life. Ninety percent of Joey's day is spent laying about the office floor until around 5:00pm when he starts to wander around and see who wants to pay attention to him. Joey's favorite daily ritual is reminding every dog in a three block radius that he owns the neighborhood by marking any and every vertical object that he passes. Known mostly for his giant watermelon sized head, he knows how to high five, low five, lay down and jump up. Mr. Monkey is also a big fan of stuffed animals, popcorn, goldfish, shedding and slobbering.
Kyle Sanders
Programming / Interactive
If it's got pistons, turbine blades, fuel injectors, hydraulic keel rams, or generous amounts of carbon fiber, Kyle is interested. If it's got multi-farad capacitors, attains stratospheric altitudes, or produces supersonic fuel-air detonation, then Kyle is probably trying to build one. He has accepted the fact that his last words just might be "Hey! Watch this!"
Kyle loves seeing technology advance the world around him, and he has always asked how does it work and how can it be made better, so it was only natural that he found his way into ActionScript, PHP, and Google Analytics. Just as push-rods and carburetors gave way to engine management systems and variable timing mechanisms to make our high tech cars of today, the concept of a website is advancing from a novelty to something much more organic and intelligent and it is this metamorphosis that captures his curiosity. Fortunately for him, Austin is a great city to find a loving wife that will let him turn the kitchen table into a science lab, friends that know how to program, solder, and generally void factory warranties, and a company with a finger on the pulse of technology.
Marie McKee
Account Executive
Marie was born and raised in Houston, Texas. She spent 4 years studying Special Education at Vanderbilt University and making websites for fun on the side. After working in Washington, DC for a couple of years, she decided it was time to come back to Texas. And good thing she did… within 24 hours of moving to Austin, she met her (now) husband / Settlers of Catan arch-rival for life.
After most recently working for 2 years as a case manager for a state funded program, she realized her creative side was dying a little more every day. She loved her clients, but had to move on. She has been fortunate to join the talented bunch at SiteGoals and loves helping them make websites, animation and any other idea that floats their way come to life, while still getting to work closely with clients.
Hobbies & Interests:
Scrabble, her husband, beating her husband at Scrabble, cooking, learning something new, occasions that call for costumes, snowboarding, and a good Sunday thunderstorm (Scrabble, anyone?).
Jordan Kohl
Design/Application Specialist
Born upon a mountain top, but raised among a clan of surfers, Jordan has spent the majority of his life in mystical California. Since he has been able to hold a mouse he has been training in the arts of the HTML/CSS ninja. He holds several (self-awarded) degrees in Graphic Design Dabbling, Creative Writing Exploration, and Computer Science Investigation. He came to the grand state of Texas in 2008 for the love of a woman and fell in love with Austin in the process.
Hobbies & Interests:
The Lakers, Rock Band, pretend racing, desserts.
Career Goals:
Establish SiteGoals Germany, live on the Autobahn, buy a 1989 Porsche 911 Turbo and drive it on the Nurburgring.
Zeke Brill
Interactive Consultant
Zeke Brill has been creating web-based entertainment and rich media marketing solutions for high profile clients since the World Wide Web first appeared on the public radar. The first Grand Clio Interactive for Rich Media Advertising was awarded to a series of interactive webverts that Zeke developed with Ogilvy & Mather, and Compound Inc. for IBM. As head of his own interactive design agency, Zeke developed several games for MTV.com to promote on-air content; including the MTV Video Music Awards. He developed officially licensed web ports of classic SEGA and Atari arcade games for AtomShockWave.com. Other projects of note include highly successful viral web games for both Xerox and AT&T.
After consulting for many years, Zeke took a position as Director of Game Development for Heavy.com, one of the most cutting edge, and influential entertainment sites on the web – and one of the only sites of its kind to survive, and thrive, to this day. In 2001, I.D. Magazine featured 2 of the games Zeke developed for Heavy.com in its yearly interactive design review. Prior to joining the SiteGoals team, Zeke served as a Project Lead in the Games Division for IGT, the largest manufacturer of gaming systems in the world, where he co-authored several game design patents.







