Meet The Team
Ron Jacklin
Director, Producer, Information Architect
Ron began his multimedia career in 1989 as the head of the Imaging Department at Vision Presentations where he literally prepared thousands of corporate presentations for clients of all sizes. Eventually, Ron’s department grew to be one of the largest of its kind in Western Canada.
After almost 10 years with Vision, Ron joined Duocom (an MCSi company) in 1999. With over a billion dollars in sales, MCSi was then the world’s largest Media Consultant/Systems Integrator and staging company. Ron first managed the Canadian graphics business before heading the North American Creative Services group.
His creative group also developed all the media for staged events for over a thousand MCSi AV specialists in Atlanta GA, Los Angeles, CA and Cincinnati, OH. One of these events included a presentation in 3D, another event used dozens of interstitials and commercials to simulate a SportsNet broadcast, the last one using multi-screen sync. The group also assisted the marketing department in creating video/graphics for key marketing pitches for MCSi – including a DVD video pitch for NASA.
In 2002, AV Video Multimedia Producer Magazine named Ron one of the top 100 producers in North America. Ron formed Jacklin Creative, the predecessor to the Media FX Group in 2003.
When not managing projects at the Media FX group, Ron is helping to create the next wave of multi-media talent in BC as an instructor in the New Media Design program at BCIT. Courses that Ron teaches include: Information Architecture, Interface Design, Media Techniques, and Human Factors.
Ron's true passion is basketball. If he was only a little taller, quite a bit faster, and not so pale... Go Steve Nash!
Zach Shore
Director/Producer - Motion Graphics Specialist
While attending BCIT's New Media program in 2004, Zach jump-started his career by producing an award-winning 3-D animation 'in sync' with a dynamic audio composition he created. After graduation, he partnered with Ron Jacklin producing video and motion graphics for multi-screen shows throughout North America, including the AGM for Molson's in Toronto, and A&W in Palm Springs. His creative talent lends itself to not only video production but also animation for website production. Zach was the lead producer in the development of Growthworks Flash animations profiling various mutual funds, creating banner ads for Hardsteel, and much more. Zach also is one of the Media FX Group's most experience iTunes/Podcast specialists. Whether it is programming a multi-screen Dataton Watchout production, creating and manipulating graphics in After-Effects and Photoshop, building a Flash animation, producing a complex audio production, or a simple PowerPoint show, Zach Shore is extremely talented.
On Saturday nights, Zach can also be found honing his audio and video production talents as a DJ and VJ at one of Vancouver's most popular nightclubs.
Danielle Borisoff
Creative Consultant
As the Creative Director at Media FX Group, Danielle works closely with our clients to express their project goals visually. She strives for client satisfaction, often going over and beyond expectations. Danielle’s creative insight and expertise was used in such projects as the interface design of the Skin Care Patient Alliance, Dottotech, and the provincial outreach programs for Autism, FASD and the deaf. In creating motion graphics, Danielle’s experience is just as impressive. From digital signage for Westcoast Hot Yoga, Hostess, Hershey’s and others to multi-screen point-of-purchase applications for Flying Wedge Pizza. These skills allow her to easily extend the multimedia design concepts and content into companion collateral. Danielle also has considerable experience in the development of print materials including posters and newsletters for the Royal Canadian Legion to brochures and PowerPoint presentations for Events on the Move. Websites, web advertising, digital signage, events, business cards, brochures, logos and more; whatever the graphic need, she can do it, and do it very well.
Danielle has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University and a New Media Design honours certification from BCIT. She has also been the recipient of several awards including Apple Canada, and Bell Globe Media.Alex Brown
Senior Developer/Project Manager
New Media is a big part of Alex’s life. He is an active blogger and takes time to share his views on the open source community and other internet related forums. As the Senior Web Developer for the Media FX Group, Alex designs and maintains community based, eCommerce, and eLearning websites. He specializes in themeing and programming using the Drupal Content Management System (CMS). Alex really enjoys the challenge of coding new functionality and customizing existing Drupal and OSCommerce modules. Whether he is programming in CSS, HTML, XML, JavaScript, AJAX, Flex or Flash, or any other language or utility, Alex is in his element. Some of the specific functionality Alex is most proud of includes, the community features of skinpatientalliance.com, and his latest eCommerce project kidsfitnessvideos.com.
Alex is a recent graduate (2007 with honours) of the New Media & Web Development program at BCIT.
James Burke
Sales and Marketing
Since, graduating from BCIT’s New Media Design program in 2007 James has focused on marketing, branding, website design, sales/promotion and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Lamar Advertising and BCIT aired a commercial produced by James to promote the digital arts program at BCIT, which circulated on Translink’s (Skytrain) advertising network. James is always looking for the next big opportunity and is interested in forming strategic relationships to help bring his client’s (and his own) dreams to fruition. It would be wise thing to connect with James. He may act like he’s had too many cups of coffee, but that’s just his enthusiasm for the industry. His passion lies in design and visual arts and he has an appetite for information, communication and keeping up with current trends.
Ronnie Way
Business Development and Strategist
Ron is all about Creative Leveraging. His own dedication to excellence in Production of Media over 3 decades and his consistently high artistic and ethical standards drives his efforts in Media FX Group. Ron's extensive experience in Film, Theatre, Music and multiple disciplinary Art combined with his marketing and business acumen make him an ideal bridge between our clients and the team at Media FX Group.
David Stambler
Account Management/Usability & Information Architect
David Stambler began his career in photography, radio, and sound recording, photographing people and culture throughout South East Asia and recording folk, tribal, and religious music in India, before pursuing multimedia in Vancouver.
He was involved in the original iMac launch and worked in the digital imaging field, then specialized in digital presentations, digital video, and DVD production for Duocom/MCSi Creative Services. He was responsible for project managing the translation of the entire Duocom website into French in 2001 and implementing its new look and feel. David's expertise with audio digitizing, graphic manipulation, and media compression was invaluable to many projects during his time with Duocom/MCSi Creative Services from 2000 to 2003.
From 2004-2005 he was the Website Content Manager for SkinCareGuide, a 19 site network of dermatology information websites, and personally created 6 new site. Web traffic doubled from the start of his tenure at SkinCareGuide to the time he left.
He was Project Leader for a large website combining three domains into a single interface for the Department of Dermatology and Skin Science at UBC, and Project Manager for the creation and launch of the Canadian Skin Patient Alliance website.
Since that time he has been servicing clients for variety of needs:
- website content authoring and interactivity optimization
- digital graphic editing and presentations for dermatologists
- custom HTML email campaigns for educational clients
- corporate logo and identity creation for the IT industry
- digital map creation for archeological clients
- digital video editing and dvd design
Accolades
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Howard Soon, Master Winemaker
"Great job on the video, especially with all the editing you had to do!"
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Vida Brodie, Conservative Party Event Director
"Just wanted to thank you again for the wonderful video! You have quite a talent there. We will definitely be needing your services in the future!"
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Gary Elling, Prudential Insurance
"My client is really happy with the Vancouver show. The set and projection got a lot of positive comments. You did a nice job. Was a real pleasure working with you!"
