Randal Birkey
Managing Director – Web Strategist
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With a background in custom architectural illustration and technical illustrations for customers nation-wide starting in 1980, Randal managed BIRKEY.COM as a web design and development firm from 1999-2007. He sold his partnership in that business in 2007 and started Headstand Media as a Chicago-based web 2.0 design company, which he currently manages on a daily basis.
Benjamin Nelson
Creative Director
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Benjamin joined Headstand Media with a background in web user interface and experience design with firms such as ClickCommerce, ShopLocal.com and freelance experience as Someday Soon Design. While at ShopLocal, Benjamin was part of a creative team that developed the Digital Punch TV vlog, a digital video viral marketing campaign which gained some notable traffic on YouTube and other video blog sites. Benjamin is also a musical director, teacher and improv actor with Second City.
Kyle Williams
SEO Specialist
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Since 1997, Kyle has been creating content driven sites with a focus on revenue generation from advertising, and search engine traffic. What started as a hobby, selling strategy guides for a popular video game through the Amazon.com website, lead to the development of Survive Outdoors, Inc., an informational portal on various wilderness survival topics. At Headstand Media, Kyle will combine his experience in search engine marketing with Web 2.0 methodology to further enhance and grow client businesses.
Matt Ritsman
Media Designer
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Matt joined Headstand Media with experience in web, multimedia and print design. His college experience included film-making within a degree in Studio Art and Communications. In previous jobs he has worked on projects for Sara Lee Corporation, United Stationers, Northwestern University and the American Bar Association.
Taylor Birkey
Content Manager
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Taylor has worked over the past 10 years for a number of Chicago-area clients, including Elegant Packaging, C. Grant & Co., the Willow Creek Association, HBN Design, and Headstand Media. Taylor specializes in the writing- and content-driven aspects of web strategy and creativity, helping clients to communicate their unique story to the world. He especially enjoys bring content to life on the web. His writing portfolio includes general marketing and business copy, brand tag lines, product descriptions, articles, newsletters, search engine optimized web copy, poetry, short fiction, editorial, and more.
In his spare time, Taylor publishes music and film reviews for the online webzine Stereo Subversion, and manages a beer review website called The Perfectly Happy Man.
Megan Lee
Project/Account Manager
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Megan joins Headstand Media with a background in print, marketing and project management with various technology firms and non-profit organizations. She is currently pursuing her M.B.A. in Operations and Non-profit Organizational Management at North Park University. She received a B.S. in Business Administration and Marketing from the UofI-Champaign in 2007.
Louis Antonelli
Intern
Louis joins Headstand Media for the summer of 2010 as he prepares to enter Cornell University in the fall to pursue a degree in Engineering. Louis has experience in web coding and design and will be assisting the Headstand Media team with web production.
Headstand Media is extending this combined expertise and partnership experience to serve public and private organizations and corporations with a wider range of creative + technology solutions, strategic web consulting, Web 2.0 integration, project management and search engine optimization services.