The Intoria Team
The Intoria team is a talented group of high-performance individuals. We're highly creative and possess an insatiable appetite for learning and improvement. As a result, each Intoria project is carried out with enthusiasm, energy, and the desire to see it reach its utmost potential. Allow us to introduce ourselves:
Clarke Schroeder
President
Clarke leads the Intoria team with unparalleled vision and strategy. His never-wavering eye on the customer's success, coupled with his dynamic personality and advanced computer skills, have brought quick popularity to Intoria.
Clarke has been programming for over twelve years, and is one of less than twenty-five people in Canada to receive Advanced designation in ColdFusion. He has led teams of programmers to build websites for national telecommunications companies, international television shows, and even created a website for the Vice-President of an African nation. When not strategic or personally visiting customers, Clarke often creates and delivers programming training sessions to groups of Intoria developers.
Believing, "What is life for if not to make a positive difference," Clarke continues to pursue partnerships and new technology solutions that will cause increase in profit, productivity, and marketing results for businesses that Intoria serves.
Blake Schroeder
Director of Operations, Creative Director
Blake brings Intoria a strong background in the customer service industry. He has used his extensive experience to manage all client relations to an impressive level where client churn has practically been eliminated. His commitment to total satisfaction has resulted in numerous delighted client relationships. Additionally, his excellent communication abilities frequently help non-technical clients understand the complex and ever-changing industry of web development and design.
Blake oversees the daily office operations, providing direction to the sales, design, programming and administration teams. His dedication to continuous improvement and attention to detail help to make Intoria a high-performance culture.
When not wearing his operations manager hat, Blake moonlights as a graphic designer, ensuring the world-class design quality of Intoria's projects.
Joel Funk
Lead Web Developer, Motion Designer
Joel is a rare combination of computer programmer and graphic designer. Frequently receiving unsolicited commendations for his stellar designs, Joel is a major contributor to the design strength behind Intoria.
Joel began programming at age eleven and went on to start his own web design company at the amazing age of thirteen. He began dabbling in Flash when he was fifteen and now possesses extensive Flash animation experience, having been involved in the production of more than thirty flash cartoons.
Joel has a background in graphic design studies, web development studies, and computer networking training. On the side, his creative flair is revealed through his theatre acting, independent film production, animation production, drawing, painting, poetry, notebook gaming, and film review.
Julene Schroeder
Content Editor, Client Accounts
Over the past thirty-five years, Julene has honed her administrative skills in almost every possible office support role. Fifteen years ago, she also added editing to her skillset, with her advanced knowledge of the English language. She has edited a number of published books and manuscripts and now routinely performs extensive content editing for our clients' websites.
Julene is also the friendly voice of our accounts department, performing all invoicing, bookkeeping, and client account-related tasks.
Chris Mallinson (contractor)
Master ColdFusion Programmer
When a truly difficult programming problem comes across our desk, Chris Mallinson is a phone call away and always ready to help. His decades of programming experience and deep understanding of Adobe ColdFusion has led to numerous breakthroughs in Intoria projects over the past several years.
Cory Pacione (contractor)
Master Designer
Intoria met Cory early in our business history and dozens of Intoria websites have their front ends carefully designed by him, to endless rave reviews from our clients. To this day, we routinely use Cory's extensive design skills on a large majority of our web projects, as the testimonials have never stopped.
Sheena Lidgett (contractor)
Master Designer
Sheena's industry experience is far beyond impressive. As lead designer for many Intoria projects, her experience with brands such as Mercedes-Benz and Valvoline demonstrates the world-class excellence of her finished products.
Brian Emmerson (contractor)
Infrastructure, Server Management
Owner of numerous successful technology companies, Brian's relationship with Intoria goes almost back to our beginning. At first, Brian owned the hosting company which supported all our websites. Today, Brian uses his server setup knowledge to maintain/improve Intoria's dedicated servers.
