Contrast has been a rollercoaster ride since day one. With nearly as many lows as highs, there’s been never a dull moment. From near-bankruptcy in the early days to a cashflow that stretches for nine months now, we’ve more than a few interesting stories to share. Which we will some day soon! But until then, there are a few folks we owe a lot of our recent success to. These are the guys who’ve been working hard with us behind the scenes and not (yet) in that picture, who today we’re officially welcoming to the company.
Lucie Coley
Lucie is our office manager. Her average day invoves things like battling through some of the worst customer service you’ll find this side of the recession and walking the streets of Dublin city to find our next HQ. Lucie joined us in February and is a godsend. We’d be lost without her.
David Barrett
When it comes to really good front-end developers, there’s a fine line between getting it “right” (faithful re-production of visual design work using best practices in a time-efficient manner) and getting it “perfect” (pedantic, overzealous use of academically correct, bleeding-edge markup). David gets it right time and time again. He’s been contracting with us steadily since November but yesterday, to our great delight, David joined Contrast full-time.
And thanks to our contractors
And to everyone else that helps us look good and puts-up with our high-standards and demanding deadlines, we really owe you guys: Darragh Curran, David Lowry, Mutually Human (John Hwang, Zach Dennis, Craig Demyanovich, Mark Van Holstyn), Walter McConnell, Grace Smith, Bartek Czerwinski, Ladislav Martincik, Ryan Daigle and Pat Allan. Thanks, guys!
17 Comments
Congrats, Dave. That’s great news.
He is a true pro.
Posted by John Ryan at 8:45 am on 29 April, 2009.
Awesome! This is great news. Well done lads!
Posted by Eamon Leonard at 8:54 am on 29 April, 2009.
Congratulations to the Contrast team. I wish you every success with the expansion. Looking forward to seeing what you guys do in future.
Posted by Michael Beeney at 8:57 am on 29 April, 2009.
Let’s not forget Lucie’s main challenge these days: having the patience to spell your name repeatedly over the phone!
I’m glad to join the team.
Posted by David Barrett at 9:22 am on 29 April, 2009.
Cool, congrats folks - didn’t realise youse had gotten to the stage of having an office manager, very civilised. And good to see someone’s made an honest man of Dave B
Posted by Dave Cahill at 9:25 am on 29 April, 2009.
Congrats lads. Well done on the expansion. You’ll need a new photo now!
Btw, your RSS feed is only displaying partial content - forcing me to read the full posts over on your site. Is that on purpose? If so, why?
Posted by Iarfhlaith Kelly at 9:31 am on 29 April, 2009.
Great news guys - you have an awesome team there. Well done Dave!
Posted by Stewart Curry at 9:32 am on 29 April, 2009.
Great news, and congrats to Dave especially!
Posted by Peter McKenna at 9:55 am on 29 April, 2009.
Congratulations on the expansion folks. Looking forward to seeing the new HQ when it’s sorted. Keep up the good work.
Posted by Ken Stanley at 10:11 am on 29 April, 2009.
Great news, congrats to Dave and the Contrast crew.
Posted by John at 11:57 am on 29 April, 2009.
Glad to hear it and looking forward to the new picture!
Posted by Oisin at 5:30 pm on 29 April, 2009.
Congratulations Guys
Well deserved
Posted by pat phelan at 6:50 pm on 29 April, 2009.
Good on you guys for shouting out your employees / contractors like this!
Posted by Reuben Whitehouse at 4:14 am on 30 April, 2009.
Congrats on the new additions
Thanks for the mention, i always enjoy working with you guys.
Posted by Grace Smith at 3:08 pm on 1 May, 2009.
I don’t know what the hell you guys talk about pretty much any of the time, coming as I do from the Pleistocene era relative to you. But this one I understood, and I’d like to wish you all well because it’s hugely important right now that people like you are doing what you do (whatever the hell it is and all). Congrats and continued success.
Posted by Nick McGivney at 12:51 am on 7 May, 2009.
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