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About Our Team

The team at Groove Commerce consists of three full time employees and three more part-timers. Our team is young, well-educated, innovative, flexible and extremely dedicated to their professions and their customers. Putting in fifty to sixty hour work weeks is a typical habit of the full timers on the Groove team; not to mention the time they spend on their own keeping up with the latest trends across the entire eCommerce industry. Simply put, our team’s qualities and practices give our customers a sharp competitive advantage within their industry. Meet the Groove Commerce team below:

Rob Spangler - Website Designer

Rob is the lead designer at Groove and brings some seriously high quality, seo-friendly, standards-compliant design skills to the team. In March, 2006, Rob graduated Full Sail’s Digital Media program down in Florida - he’s been making the web a better place with his fresh and clean designs ever since!

Rob’s Areas of Expertise Include:

• Website Design
• E-mail Newsletter Design
• Front End Development Using xHTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• User Interface (UI)
• Content Management System (CMS) Integration

Mike Calabrese - eCommerce Marketing Analyst

Joining the team in June of 2007, Mike handles the marketing for Groove’s clients. He graduated with a degree in History from Loyola College in Maryland, affording him the writing, research and analytical skills which he has successfully applied to several different aspects of online marketing.

Mike’s Areas of Expertise Include:

• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Pay-per-click (PPC) Campaign Management
• E-mail Marketing
• Copywriting
• Web Analytics
• Blogging

John Richardson - Web Developer, Project Manager

John comes to the Groove team with a degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland at Baltimore County. He’s been developing websites for over 6 years now and never fails to impress his clients and fellow team members alike with his innovative and creative custom development solutions.

John’s Areas of Expertise Include:

• SEO-friendly Web Development
• Project Management
• Custom Back End Solutions
• Customer Relationship Management
• Advanced Proficiency in: ASPDotNetStoreFront, C, C++, C#, .Net 2.0, HTML, XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, SQL Server 2005