Our team has a great mix of creative, design, production & development mojo. Everyone has the experience & ability to both create award winning experiences & the actual ability to talk to clients.
Erik Muendel
Creative Director/Owner
Erik Muendel is a new media executive with over 14 years of experience. As Creative Lead and Director for Brightline Interactive, LLC, Erik leverages creative, strategy and management skills to develop and execute effective multi-channel interactive marketing. His team-building skills result in industry awards, and the interactive campaigns he manages help national accounts meet strategic communication goals and improved brand awareness. Erik has a BS in Political Science and a minor in Computer Science from James Madison University.
Sam Santarelli
VP of Business Development/Client Services
Alessandro (Sam) Santarelli identifies opportunities and then works in symmetry with both the client and Brightline’s team to ensure that the client’s vision and Brightline’s creative are fully executed: on time and on budget. For over 9 years, Sam was an award-winning new media and film/video producer. His most recent documentary film, The Cultivated Life: Thomas Jefferson and Wine, was distributed nationally by PBS and was awarded two Emmy® Awards. Sam has a BA in History from the University of Virginia.
Jason Powers
Senior Programmer
Jason is a software developer with 13 years experience developing a wide range of software from web applications to manufacturing configuration tools. While his background includes many programming languages and software tools, since the arrival of Web 2.0 and AS3, his interest is in web development using JavaScript and Flash. Having spent a considerable amount of time in China over the last few years, when he’s not coding, he’s usually studying Mandarin or running.
Benjamin Joseph Jancewicz
Senior Designer/Art Director
Benjamin Jancewicz has been designing, illustrating and animating since 1999. He grew up in Northern Quebec on the Naskapi Native American reservation of Kawawachikamach, just slightly south of Eskimo (Inuit) territory. An alum of Messiah College in Grantham, PA, he also studied photography & engineering. After graduating, he began a successful career as a graphic designer, both in print and digital mediums. Benjamin brings a strong dose of creativity to Brightline, with a drive to constantly improve whatever he's working on. When he's not doing design or art, he's typically tearing around on a motorcycle, playing in rock bands, or crawling through abandoned buildings with a camera.
Jen Ohs
Production Manager
Jen Ohs handles client relationships and ensures that our projects stay on time and budget. With extensive experience as a graphic designer and project manager, Jen brings additional insight into the position. Jen also likes to code when no one is looking. Originally from the Philadelphia area, she graduated from The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and promptly relocated to Washington, DC. In her free time, you can find Jen teaching ballet or fishing with her husband in the Outer Banks.
Todd Mercer
Project Manager / Quality Assurance Director
Todd has over 10 years of professional experience in new media design, development, live event production, quality assurance and project management. Todd has considerable experience producing and managing award-winning projects across all forms of media including traditional websites, Flash animation/motion-graphics, CD and DVD-ROM development, post-production video editing, graphic design, dynamic database development, interactive touchscreen applications and numerous print deliverables.
Bill Goodwin
Producer/Technical Director
(Consultant)
Bill is an accomplished communications consultant who works comfortably from creative conceptualization through technical execution which is why he carries the title Creative and Technical Director. His range of skills and experience range from executive production-level management for corporate and political events and galas; budgeting; design and engineering of audio, video and computer-based presentation systems, including multi-screen video-enabled sets, DVD mastering, video editing and art direction for still and motion graphics.
J Candio
Associate Production Manager
J is our associate production manager who provides production and administration support. J brings a wide and varied set of skills and knowledge to the team.
Mena Fusco
Graphic Designer
Mena recently finished her sophomore year at Cabrini College, located in Radnor Pennsylvania. She is expected to graduate in 2012 with a Graphic Design major and a Communications minor. Working at Brightline Interactive this Summer to help gain better knowledge of the field and assist the Brightline Interactive team.
