Team

We are passionate about what we do. We love solving new problems. We care deeply about our work. We want our clients to love the result, but we also want them to enjoy the process.

We like to eat lunch together every month. Sometimes we learn about new technology. Sometimes we go someplace fun. We've taken in museum exhibits at SFMOMA, and we've ogled the Italian furniture at Limn. When we're really tired, we order in Chinese food and watch cartoons on TV.

We're freaks about design. We surf the Web for cool new sites whenever our hands are free. We scan magazines before bedtime. We admire the work of Jakob Nielsen and Edward Tufte. And we love to try new restaurants.

Tania Schwartz

Creative Director

Tania co-founded Mediatrope in 1996. She defines the interactive vision of company clients with an emphasis on user experience. As Creative Director, she has developed Internet, interactive, and video projects for a wide-range of clients including The Adobe Foundation, The Tech Museum of Innovation, The Smithsonian Institution, The National Museum of the American Indian, and The Noguchi Museum. She brings creative management and communications experience in the educational, legal and banking fields to the company. Tania studied multimedia at San Francisco State’s Multimedia Studies Program and politics at UC Santa Cruz where she earned her B.A.

Ethan Wilde

Managing Principal + Technical Director

Ethan has twenty years of experience in computer programming and environmental design, including advanced architectural studies. He strives to create solutions that integrate interactive and visual design with technology. He is the author of AppleScript for the Internet, AppleScript for Applications, and Scripting Adobe Illustrator. Ethan studied computer science and mathematics at UC Santa Cruz where he earned his B.A. in Architectural History, graduating magna cum laude. He also holds a M. Arch. in Architecture from UC Berkeley and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He currently teaches at regional seminars and The Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

Laura Mann

Consultant

Laura has worked in arts marketing, education and technology for fifteen years, creating innovative media and mobile programs that enable cultural organizations and non-profits to communicate more effectively with their audiences. From 1996 through 2002, Laura led the sales and marketing team at Antenna Audio (now Antenna International), the world’s leading provider of audio and multimedia guides. Laura has worked with dozens of cultural institutions including Smithsonian, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Graceland, Newport Mansions and Alcatraz. Laura holds a B.A. in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania and she was a Ph.D. Mellon Fellow in the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley.

Tisha Carper Long

Producer

Building on a career in publishing, Tisha worked as website producer at UC Berkeley’s Institute of International Studies for twelve years. She left that position to earn her MA in Museum Studies at John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley. Following graduation, she worked as Exhibit Developer and Project Manager at the Oakland Museum of California. Tisha has received special training in accessibility and usability from Edward Tufte, the Nielsen/Norman Group, and the UC Berkeley WebAccess group. She is the recipient of a 2010 Muse Award from the AAM Media and Technology Committee for a video created for the Asian Art Museum. She was a 2008 Fellow of the National Association for Museum Exhibition, and served on the Editorial Board of their professional journal, The Exhibitionist.

Sean Ouyang

Designer

Sean has nine years of experience as a web designer and art director. Sean's experience includes web and mobile projects for the Utah Museum of Natural History, Miami-Dade County, Nike and HSBC. Prior to joining Mediatrope, Sean was an Art Director in the Shanghai, Hong Kong and New York offices of Razorfish. Sean has also held design positions at Ogilvy and Mather and r2v2 Interactive. Sean holds a B.A. in Design for Multimedia from the University of Northumbria.

Cameron Spencer

Developer

Cameron has four years of experience in web development, new media,and IT support. His skill set includes HTML 5, CSS3, JavaScript, PHP, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Drupal. Cameron's recent projects at Mediatrope include a mobile web app, website and interactive kiosk system for the Natural History Museum of Utah, MAMA: Motherhood Around the Globe, an online exhibition for the International Museum of Women and a touch screen kiosk for the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University.Cameron holds a Bachelor of Music from California State University, Stanislaus. He is currently completing a Master of Fine Arts in Web Design and New Media at the Academy of Art University.

Tyler Freeman

Developer

Tyler has twelve years of experience building websites and interactives. His technology skills include HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, Lisp, C/C++/C#, XML, XSLT, Python, Max/MSP/Jitter, OpenGL, ActionScript, Flash, SQL and AJAX. He also believes that good programming is a skill separate from the number of languages you know. Tyler's recent projects at Mediatrope include websites for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Freer and Sackler Galleries, and History Explorer, a K-12 curriculum site for the National Museum of American History and the Thinkfinity Foundation. Tyler received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science and his Master's in Digital Art and New Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.