As a project manager for Catalysis, Andrew is responsible for managing the development, execution, analysis, and refinement of marketing campaigns. He works in tandem with the client, internal, and external resources to deliver successful outcomes.

Prior to Catalysis, Andrew worked as a media relations/production assistant for Retail Entertainment Design, managing their media library, coordinating assets, and producing custom video content for major labels and retailers. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a focus on Marketing from Washington State University.

When away from work, Andrew has a passion for skiing and is a bit of a gym rat — most nights you can find him trying to out-work his wife. He also loves spending time researching new gizmos and sports cars, or just hanging out with family and friends.

Connor wears many hats at Catalysis. His primary role involves supporting the finance team by helping manage the accounting needs of the company, but he also works with the marketing analytics group, providing clients with valuable insight by turning their data into digestible information.  Connor also helps support the company’s network operations by monitoring the health of the systems on a daily basis.

Before joining Catalysis, Connor studied engineering at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, then moved on to Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business in California, where he graduated with a degree in Accounting and Information Systems.  While he does miss the near perfect weather in California’s Bay Area, he is happy to return to the beautiful Pacific Northwest where he was raised.

Despite choosing not to pursue a career in engineering, Connor still enjoys researching and learning about the latest scientific and technological developments.  He has also recently started on the lifelong journey of learning how to swing a golf club. 

Since joining Catalysis in 2001, Derek is the solo pilot who installs, manages, and supports all the backend equipment that keeps Catalysis running at an optimal level each day. During his tenure, Derek has seen the back end infrastructure grow from seven servers to over 65 and has brought SQL clustering, Web server load balancing, optimized backup systems, Metro Fiber Internet connectivity, and System monitoring and alerting to Catalysis. Most recently he started a server consolidation using Microsoft Hyper-V. Derek has many years of experience in the IT industry.

Prior to Catalysis, he led the implementation of a server-wide migration and consolidation from Novell to Windows NT at Eddie Bauer's corporate office. He has also worked for the City of Seattle Mayor's Office, and was on the Microsoft Windows 95 test team.

A Southern California transplant, Derek can often be found attending cooking classes, playing tennis, biking, boating, or entertaining friends with his wife, Deborah and his best friend Cooper.

Doug has been with Catalysis since 2002. Over that time, Catalysis has gone through many changes, and Doug has been integral to implementing many company-wide systems and processes. Doug is constantly striving for better business metrics, streamlining business processes, and achieving higher efficiency for greater client outcomes.

Prior to Catalysis, Doug spent over 10 years in small businesses management consulting, including strategic planning, financial modeling, and enterprise system integrations. He holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in Business Administration with a focus on Finance, and an MBA from Seattle University.

While not at Catalysis, Doug can be found enjoying the outdoors with his family, including activities such as technical mountain climbing, hiking, kayaking and wildlife photography. He also enjoys competition and trains regularly for competitive powerlifting.

As the lead developer, Eric handles a bit of everything in the software development lifecycle, from technical design to execution. In his eight years at Catalysis, he has overseen the development and rollout of key internal systems as well as major client campaigns, along with a myriad of research and development aimed at providing more capability in our client offerings.

Before coming to Catalysis, Eric worked as an analytical chemist, microbiologist, and eventually as a programmer working on projects ranging from websites to financial management applications to telecom back office software and digital puppetry systems. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from Central Washington University and knows more about parasites than you might care to learn.

Outside of work he spends as much time outdoors with his family as he can, and when not doing that spends it indoors building things — none of which are robot armies bent on taking over the world, so you can rest easy.

As a Senior Database Administrator, Ira is focused on maintaining and administering databases for Catalysis. Her duties include maintaining and proposing better security solutions for databases, disaster recovery planning, and other related tasks to ensure data is made available to all as required.

Ira holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from India and continues to pursue additional certificate courses. Prior to joining Catalysis, Ira worked in a variety of database roles and capacities for many clients including Jones Apparel Group and Microsoft. 

In her free time, Ira enjoys spending time with her husband, reading a good book, and gardening. She has close to 40 lilies that she has been nurturing for a long time.

As a program services manager, Justin is responsible for the overall project lifecycle of Catalysis project engagements. With over 13 years of experience spanning consumer and business to business marketing, Justin specializes in providing an information-based approach to customer engagements that ensures a targeted, measurable, and repeatable outcome. 

Before joining Catalysis, Justin spent ten years at Microsoft focused on relationship marketing and the student and technical audiences. His experience with audience intelligence and relationship marketing strategy enables efficient execution and truly integrated marketing communications. He holds a BBA in finance from the University of Portland and an MBA from Willamette University. 

A Northwest native, Justin loves the outdoors.  On weekends you can find him running, hiking, camping, or just working in the yard.  Odds are he’ll be playing in the dirt somewhere with his wife and son.

As a program services manager, Matt is responsible for the overall project lifecycle of Catalysis' project engagements. With over 16 years of experience in the integrated digital marketing and technology services industry, Matt's role is to provide strategic planning and insight for our clients' marketing programs, articulate solutions, and turn ideas into executable projects.

Matt attended Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, and Manchester College, Oxford University, in Oxford, England. Prior to joining Catalysis, he was a national account manager for ISNM, a Toronto-based elearning/edetailing development firm. His areas of interests include relationship marketing strategy and execution, programmatic and community marketing strategy, and instructional systems design.

Matt's other interests include kayaking, ornithology, photography, and teaching his two young sons how to catch bluefish on the Nantucket sound.

As an interactive producer for Catalysis, Megan enjoys supporting the project management team in developing and implementing high quality marketing campaigns.

Before coming to Catalysis, Megan worked in fundraising and marketing communications at nonprofits, including the World Wildlife Fund. She also led fundraising efforts for two successful Washington state ballot initiative campaigns. Megan completed her BA in Political Science at Saint Mary’s College of CA and her MBA at the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. She is passionate about continuous improvement, efficiency, clean data, and typo-eradication.

Outside of work, Megan enjoys exploring Seattle’s amazing parks, reading fiction, backpacking, and traveling to just about anywhere. She spends a lot of time thinking, reading, and having lively conversations about politics, psychology, and technology.

As a Project Manager at Catalysis, Michelle thrives on working closely with clients to develop and implement high-quality, international marketing campaigns efficiently. As a nerd who loves different languages, she enjoys managing global communications and delivering localized communications accurately.

Prior to Catalysis, Michelle enjoyed a successful career in the non-profit sector serving as Fund Development Manager for the Girl Scouts of Western Washington, as well as Marketing Director for an international adoption agency. Michelle completed her Bachelor’s degree in international relations at the University of Arizona and holds an MBA in marketing and non-profit management from the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.

Outside of work, Michelle is a passionate advocate for children and can be found volunteering for various local organizations. She also loves drawing, painting, and experimenting with new creative projects and mediums. Michelle has traveled to 14 countries so far, but really hopes to increase that number very soon.

As a web developer, Monika develops and supports efforts of the team to create, fix, and maintain internet solutions. Her experience spans several programming languages, most recently ASP.NET, C#, and PHP with MySQL, including JavaScript with jQuery. She holds a BS in Applied Computer Science from Warsaw University of Technology in Poland.

Monika has over 10 years of web development experience. During the eight years prior to joining Catalysis, Monika worked for Puget Sound Educational Service District in Renton, WA, where she was involved in website and web application projects for School Districts in the Puget Sound area.

Originally from Poland, Monika likes living in the Greater Seattle area and enjoys its surroundings. Outside of work, Monika likes to actively spend her free time biking, jogging, hiking, and skiing.

As Desktop Support technician at Catalysis, Norman takes care of technical issues related to our local desktops and laptops. He also handles some of the administrative needs and works closely with our network administrator to keep things going smoothly for Catalysis.

Before joining Catalysis, he worked at Deloitte for 10 years, and more recently with law firm Perkins Coie. Originally from California, Norman moved to Washington a few years ago and even though he misses the warm sunny weather of the Silicon Valley, he enjoys the fresh air and evergreen surroundings of the Pacific Northwest.

Spending time with his two kids is his biggest joy. He likes  helping them with homework, taking them to fun places to play, or just hanging out at home with a good video game. He also enjoys biking, reading, and shopping with his wife and kids.

Rhonda is a self-professed statistics geek with a professional goal of eliciting the “meaning of data” as part of the advanced marketing analytics team. She interprets data and presents results that are meaningful to clients, answer business questions, and are easily understood by both technical and less-quantitatively oriented individuals. 

Prior to joining Catalysis, Rhonda finished both her MS in Statistics and MA in Anthropology at Washington State University. Her Master’s thesis explored the relationship between consumer food habits and social class systems.  Knowing what, why, and how people tick in the market place is a passion for Rhonda and her experience in the field collecting data on consumer behavior gives her a unique perspective on data projects at Catalysis.

When Rhonda is not at work, she enjoys sewing, cooking, the outdoors, photography, traveling, and intellectual discussions surrounding cultural systems. One of her more recent projects included refinishing the inside of a 1969 camper where she did everything from painting to reupholstering. Rhonda’s past travels have primarily taken her to South and Central America, but she hopes to visit Central Asia in the near future. 

Front end development at Catalysis is constantly engaging, both creatively and technically, and Rick handles everything from microsites to multi-national email campaigns. Working closely with back-end developers to bring a project to life, Rick bridges the gap between form and functionality.

Prior to Catalysis, Rick worked as a user-experience designer, graphic designer, and web developer for studios in-and-around Seattle. Claiming Pierce County as his home, Rick Pierce went to school at Pierce College (the coincidence not overlooked) where he earned an Associates Degree in Arts and graduated in the top of his class.

Outside of work, Rick likes to play games, make games, and participate in other very nerdy things. Above all, though, he likes to spend his days with his wife and three-daughters at home (usually playing games).

As an interactive producer, Sam assists the project management team with marketing campaigns, ensuring our PMs have the necessary support to create and maintain projects.  

Sam graduated from Manhattan College, earning a Bachelor’s degree in communications with a focus study in political science and broadcasting. She started her career in television, and later moved on to multimedia. Sam previously worked for Zonar, a telematics solutions company, as their media and training specialist. She contributed to the creation of the training department and also developed media elements for the both the training and marketing departments.

When Sam isn’t at work, you can find her running around Seattle preparing for her next half marathon, or cooking for her friends and family. She also enjoys hitting the ski slopes during the winter months.

A DBA/database developer specializing in complex algorithms and processes, Sid provides Catalysis with SQL code development, ad hoc queries, data quality assurance, pushes, and pulls, and is contemplating redesigning the pushmi-pullyu for greater efficiency. Integration Services package refinement and C# code development are also among his job duties.

His background is in mathematics and physics, but he has worked with databases for (literally) decades. He has considerable experience with data analysis, too, in a variety of areas from city budget planning to electrochemistry.

In his rare spare moments, Sid enjoys listening to indie rock, and he occasionally attempts to play electric guitar. He also maintains an active interest in science, and you’ll often find him hidden behind a Scientific American on his long commute to/from work on the bus.

Technology is always evolving, so staying up to speed on the latest techniques is not just necessary, it’s what keeps this field exciting. As a front-end developer at Catalysis, Trent works hand-in-hand with creative minds and back-end developers to bring visual concepts to life on-screen.

Prior to Catalysis, Trent worked as a web development contractor for various clients throughout the Puget Sound area. Trent is a two-time alumni of Highline Community College, where he graduated at the top of his class in web programming, graphic design, and business administration.

Away from the office, Trent enjoys spending most of his time with his wife and two boys. As a former poker dealer, it is not out of the realm of possibility to spot him playing high quality poker tournaments within the Pacific Northwest or in Las Vegas.

Cooper joined Catalysis in early 2007 and enjoys coming to work every day. His typical day consists of attending meetings while resting on Derek's lap, lying on his bed mostly stretched out on his back, keeping track of Derek's whereabouts and following him around, and the occasional stealth run around the dome when he's had a stressful day. When not at work, Cooper enjoys pretty much the same.

As Chief Instigator, Lemon fills the Catalysis office with hi-jinx and tail chasing. She is a real team player, and will offer help with finishing lunches or letting you scratch her belly. She has also been known to walk around the office with a squeaky dragon in-tow, especially when client calls or meetings are taking place. When she's not roaming the office, Lemon enjoys long walks on the beach where she can chase birds and bark at motorcycles. She's also been known to frequent a dog park or two, usually followed immediately by a nice, long nap.