Meet our people.
If you're an Emma customer, it's very likely you've gotten to know one or more of the people pictured here. Perhaps you've met several of them. Perhaps you know one person quite well but have only spoken briefly with two others. Here's your chance to put a face with a name, or two names with two faces, and so on and so forth.
Bradley Martin
Bradley is a bit of a data and Salesforce guru, if such things exist, and we’re told they do. He works his data and Salesforce guru-ness in support of our fabulous sales team, helping us spot trends, and patterns, and trendy patterns and pattern-like trends. Originally from nearby Springfield, Tennessee (home of a fabulous little Chinese restaurant with a blue roof know as, um, The Blue Roof), Bradley attended Belmont University and, while there, wrote an entire business plan about tiny pies. The pies actually brought in more than $1 million in revenue a year, so if you’re about to make fun of tiny pies, which we get the distinct sense you are, just remember that tiny pies can really add up if you give them a fighting chance. Also remember that sometimes Bradley puts gel in his hair, and sometimes he does not. Which is to say that you shouldn’t try putting Bradley in a box, and if you do put him in a box make sure the box has enough gel for him to apply some about half the time. It’s just how a data guru like Bradley rolls. And gels.
Kelly McClain
Kelly McClain is a designer at Emma. A graduate of Western Kentucky University (known in these parts as WKU for hopefully obvious reasons), Kelly has studied print and interactive advertising and picked up an invaluable tip during one of her drawing classes: that even if you erase part of something you’ve sketched, the image will still be there, both on the paper itself and as a step in the process that eventually led to the final result. Look it, we’re not just all fun and games on the People Page — sometimes we actually learn something. Like in the movie, “What About Bob?”, which is chock full of life lessons and just so happens to be one of Kelly’s favorite films, if you’ll pardon us for using the words film, what, about and Bob in the same sentence. Richard Dreyfus really does the I’m-really-worked-up thing well, doesn’t he. Kelly also enjoys cats, sewing, the guitar (she’s taking lessons), the environment, the color red, and tuna. Everything else, Kelly is completely and utterly against.
Kevin McConnell
Kevin leads our engineering team, having reached Emma through the traditional Edinburgh, Scotland to Houston, Texas to Portland, Oregon path. As Scotland's lone ambassador to Emma, Kevin carries the sole responsibility of bringing that country's unique culture to the workplace. For example, he says "wee" and "fiddle" a lot, as in, "We need to fiddle around with it for a wee bit." Also, he calls Mardi Gras "Pancake Day." Those are really the only examples we've got. Kevin is a vegan but hates zucchini, the mention of which makes him agitated, what with zucchini being the most pedestrian of all squashes. Kevin holds a computing degree from Napier University in Edinburgh, where he was awarded the Addison Wesley Prize for his final-year dissertation, An Investigation into the Behaviour of Transport Protocols Across Packet Switched Networks. Say it with a funny Scottish accent and throw the word "wee" in there somewhere, and it sounds a lot more interesting.
Casey McCormick
Casey is a member of Emma’s small business sales team. A graduate of Beloit (pronounced “bell-wahh”) College in Wisconsin, Casey studied environmental geology as a result, we’re told, of having gone through the course book and circled everything she didn’t think she could teach herself. Oddly enough, she hates rocks. But she loves camping and drinking beer outside, so it worked out just fine in the end. In addition to her outdoor pursuits, Casey loves travel and food, particularly in combination. Her favorite treat from the road? Trout from Lake Titicaca. Her least favorite? Inca Cola, which looks like Mountain Dew but tastes like bubble gum. Casey also enjoys being part of a wine club and a book club, though she admits the two sometimes get mixed up, and before you know it everyone’s halfway through chapter nine of a Chalone 2003 Pinot Noir. It’s a wonderful read. Before joining Emma, Casey was with Aspect Software as a customer support consultant and a technical support manager. She was named an Aspect Top Performer of 2006, which she no doubt celebrated over a bottle of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
Matt McCutchan
Matt works with our agency partners, offering email marketing strategy to our creative resellers. If Emma had a patron saint, it might be Matt. It's not that his face regularly appears on toast made in our kitchens (which we're neither confirming nor denying) or that he's so affable. It's that he travels with his wife each year to help impoverished families in Costa Rica, works with the Lost Boys Foundation and coaches kids' soccer on the weekends. Before you start thinking we have nothing scandalous to say about Matt, consider that he once performed a few moves to "Single Ladies" in front of a large audience. Who was this audience? It hardly matters. He's also a singer-songwriter who studied with Taylor Swift's vocal coach. Add to that the fact that mangoes are his favorite fruit, and the scandal basically writes itself, doesn't it?
Jeff McKeand
Before Jeff joined Emma's User Experience team, he owned an agency that used Emma for its clients. Isn't that a coincidence! Was it enough of a coincidence to use an exclamation point? Probably not, now that we think about it! That customer experience has given Jeff a unique perspective on the needs of Emma agencies and their clients, and he's applying that perspective to how we design for - and serve - those agencies and the rest of the Emma community. Other things that give Jeff a unique perspective: Lost (don't get him started), '80s metal bands, The Letter People, and IndyCar racing. In fact, Jeff grew up thinking he would be a racecar driver. What a silly, stupid dream. Just kidding, Jeff, and other children who dream about becoming things! Jeff now spends more time dreaming about creating user experiences that are "brilliantly simple and beautifully usable," and we're glad he's making that dream come true at Emma. Also, racecars shmacecars.
Theresa McLoughlin
Theresa is part of our agency sales squad, having joined Emma from Mohawk, where she was part of a slightly more carpet-oriented sales squad. Hence her extensive knowledge of plush, shag, sisal, saxony, berber, and shard. Incidentally, and the Mohawk scientists will tell you this, you shouldn’t try making carpet out of shards of things. A devout Buckeyes fan, Theresa has two cats named Allie and Foxy and 57 cousins named, well, um, how about we just tell you about cousin Tata Young, a singer billed as Thailand’s very own pop sensation, and whose song “Temperature Rising” claims: “You’ve got my temperature rising like El Nino.” Sorry, other Theresa cousins - you’ve just been out-cousined. Theresa holds a Bachelor of Science in Communications from Ohio University in Athens. Not *that* Athens.
Sara McManigal
Sara is part of our people development team, guiding our efforts to hire fabulous, talented, and fabulously talented people to work here. Sara is from Nebraska, which means she often regales prospective candidates with Nebraska-related trivia. Did you know they have a replica of Stonehenge made out of cars? Carhenge. Kid you not. Sara wields a degree in Music Business and Marketing from Belmont University, where she was a member of the (nationally ranked) Belmont Speech and Debate Team and the Belmont Service Corp and the Student Advisory Board and president of her student council in high school. It really is amazing what you can learn about people when you actually read all the way to the bottom of their resumes.
Josh Mock
Josh is a member of our application development team, hailing from California and Cal Poly (or California Polytechnic State University, if you prefer). He's a developer, and a DJ, and a writer. And he has a Radiohead tattoo, which makes us think he likes Radiohead. Or maybe he hates Radiohead and it's his ultra-ironic commentary on how the cult following bands inspire is nothing more than corporate commercialism at its most devious. Or maybe he just likes Radiohead. You're right. Josh's love of music shows up in other ways, too, like his involvement in Buzzgrinder.com and GhettoblasterMagazine.com, sites for which he has written, edited, designed, developed, reviewed albums, and interviewed artists and industry figures. His self-described music geekdom is matched by his computer geekdom, his writing geekdom and his web comic geekdom. The man has seen a ton of live shows and has eaten his fair share of cheese. We mention cheese only to point out the fact that Josh once made a pact with a friend in which they agreed they wouldn't eat cheese for two years, apart from the occasional cheese "emergencies" that would inevitably arise from time to time. There are apparently more cheese emergencies than you might expect, and Josh has learned what the rest of us knew all along - that pacts with friends involving cheese never end well.
Christy Montoya
Christy is a consultant on our design team. Hailing from Arizona, she is an avid outdoorswoman and likes to hike, camp, canoe and generally be outside. Unfortunately, much of her job at Emma happens inside, which is so typical of The Man, isn't it - forcing outdoorsy people to go inside. Whatever! Down with The Man and his Work-Indoors-or-Else Edict! Enough is enough! Wait, hold on, we actually need people indoors, so, ahem, it's entirely appropriate to expect employees to work in an indoor environment, provided said environment offers ample seating and pens. When Christy isn't staying indoors entirely against her will or adventuring outdoors on her own, she's often helping others, as a coordinator for Ellie's Run, spending time in Africa working with street kids, orphans and students, helping African immigrants get settled in Nashville, supporting the homeless in Nashville - you name it. She is, to use the technical term, a really good person. Christy grows her own organic vegetables (outdoors - take that, The Man!) and is currently learning Spanish. Indoors, or adentro, as luck would have it.