Spoon with Traffic Coordinator Max Stockholder, and he’ll likely tempt you with rich culinary fare. Max cooks, designs and keeps up with everything we do at Blackwave Creative. From his time in a professional kitchen to his Interactive Design studies at Capilano University, Max knows how to push good food, push a pen and push our team to calm, cool and collected collaboration. When he’s not scheduling our day, he plays through the night with Tyranahorse, a band with a sound betwixt The Cramps and Pointed Sticks. Max just moved in with his amazing girlfriend Vanessa, so you must get her permission before you spoon.

Rub tattooed elbows with the creative guy who has a few tricks up his sleeve for your website. Designer & Illustrator Shaun Samson is Blackwave Creative's right-hand man, because Creative Director & Partner Shawn Johnston is a lefty. Shaun (not Shawn) draws on his studies in engineering and graphic design to create a slick, consistent look for your web development project. He's designed websites for retail, telecommunications, indie music and small business. When not crafting website designs for Blackwave Creative, Shaun bikes, eats sushi and stares lovingly at his two best friends—wife Wendy and dog Donut.

Bid "Hallo!" to Junior Web Designer Suria Erasmus, but don't you dare call her "Junior." This revolutionist may be named "Surion Destroyer of Worlds" by her friends, but Suria's rebel-rousing disposition and tattoos contrast the pleasant typographer, designer, illustrator and dart thrower we've come to know. From her time at art and design school to her work with a design house in Johannesburg, South Africa, Suria brings order to chaos and drop-kicks form with bold visuals and an imagination that borders public nuisance. When she's not working on creative, Suria bear hugs the great outdoors.

Say "Hello!" to Copywriter Carey Sessoms. Carey uses clear, concise copy to reach your market. From websites and two-column scripts to articles, blog posts and online conversations, it all begins with thorough keyword research (Thanks, Candace!) and ends with targeting the right people with compelling authenticity. His writing consistently yields results, revenue and brand value. He's a driven Internet marketer who's passionate about plain language for public stocks, e-commerce sites and niche markets. When he isn't writing copy, Carey composes digital music, pens a blog and sketches oddish caricatures.

Have a word with the best search guru this side of Google Webmaster Tools. Candace Howcroft is Blackwave Creative's SEO Specialist. She researches, targets and offers full reports on the key phrases that can generate top results for your business. She helps Blackwave Creative turn website designs into powerful Internet marketing solutions. Whether working on-page with Carey, optimizing HTML for better results or installing Google Analytics for traffic monitoring, Candace ensures your website design succeeds in this competitive marketplace. She insists we include "website design" in this profile.

Tip your hat to our WordPress wizard. He can turn any website design into an easily managed web development solution. WordPress Specialist Chris Molitor often designs websites in Adobe Photoshop CS4. For Blackwave Creative, Chris masters trends, tools and techniques in WordPress. Chris turns our innovative website designs into functional, dynamic WordPress-powered interfaces. He gives you the power to easily manage your content, including copy, photos and pages. When he's not all about WordPress.org themes, Chris watches Lost and creates comics inspired by Chuck Norris and Jack Bauer.

The dress code for our Drupal guy may be casual, but he digs smart-looking websites. Drupal Specialist David DiGiovanni helps Blackwave Creative build your site using an open source content management system (CMS) called Drupal. Whether you have a blog or a corporate site, David uses Drupal to build and manage menus, RSS feeds, page layouts and users. He gets a kick out of turning our website designs into powerful web development solutions. When not improving the back-ends of client websites, David enjoys the back nine of a friendly golf game and the occasional back check while playing EA Sports' NHL 10.

Get animated with Shane Whitehouse. He is Blackwave Creative's Animator. He brings our website designs to life with innovative graphic elements and actionscript expertise. Shane spent more than a decade providing graphic design to world-class companies, such as MGM/Sony Pictures, Cathay Pacific Airlines, Pepsi, Aliant, Royal Bank of Canada, Eastlink, CBC and Nova Scotia Lottery Corp. Shane's broad-ranging expertise allowed him to work as Playback Artist for the science fiction TV series Stargate: Atlantis, but nothing says "Out of this world!" quite like his animation designs for Blackwave Creative.