Ross is a creative entrepreneur with a profound interest in the role design plays in business. Having started his career in marketing and special event production, he quickly gravitated toward design and art direction. Ross completed a certificate in interdiciplinary Studies from Kwantlen Polytechnic University before moving to Toronto where he completed a Bachelor of Design at the Ontario College of Art & Design.
Over the past 7 years he has held senior creative roles at leading design and interactive studios in Toronto and Vancouver. He has designed and managed creative projects for organizations including Tourism Toronto, the Royal Ontario Museum, The Ontario Science Centre, the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and Mountain Equipment Coop.
Ross currently resides in Vancouver where he holds the position of senior designer at Subplot Design Inc., a leading brand design firm. He is also Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Property Cloud Inc., a national internet-based business that helps real estate professionals, developers and property managers market their properties on mobile devices.
Mehmet Ates is a teacher and web developer with extensive experience in management for a local web development company. As a senior web developer, Mehmet is responsible for the company's customized content management system which allows them to enable small businesses to have an online presence and manage their sales, inventory and tracking.
Mehmet has a degree in Advanced Internet Development from Bodwell Internet School in Vancouver BC, and a Provincial Instructor Diploma from the Ministry of Education, with experience in teaching XML, server side programming with ColdFusion and database development.
Antonio is currently a programmer at Ecubed Media, with over 7 years of experience in the web development industry and a 4-year degree in Information Systems. He has performed functions in networking, programming, analysis, website construction and maintenance, bringing a broad range of experience and skills for offering feedback to our full-time Web Development & Interactive Design program.
