What we do

Where do we start? We're some busy fellas! Painted Sparrows is a partnership between a few individuals with the vision to realize that by pooling our skills we could tackle projects much larger than anything we could handle individually. In the last year we've been busy increasing the exposure of and access to local farmers markets with Live Local. We have developed and enhanced MiniMedRec, an online tool that lets individuals store and manage their own medical information. Currently we're breaking ground on Druplicate, a Drupal focused website building, development and consulting group and Flying Carpet Services, also a consulting initiative. Flying Carpet is aimed at providing branding, online marketing, design and data stability services to small businesses and not-for-profit organizations at prices that are approachable with small budgets.

Our boutique agency model enables us to expand and contract on a project by project basis. We believe in keeping light on our feet and maintaining a low overhead. All this plus our financial sensibilities means that we can offer some of the best rates around.

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How we work

We believe that there is no single approach that can accommodate every case. Rather than try to apply recipe driven solutions, we rely on solid principles of project management.

Discover

This is Q & A time. We ask a bunch of questions about you and your business. We want to know what vision you have for your project. We start with pie in the sky and then dig into the details. By expanding the planning phase we can deliver prototypes that need fewer revisions than trial and error approaches. Fewer revisions means faster deployment and lower project costs.

Prototype

These are the initial plans put into action. At this stage, we flesh out the plan, create measurable goals, and develop the first model.

Test and Revise

This stage marks the end of round one for a work in progress. Here we'll be able to fine tune the prototype, test it thoroughly and deliver a fully working product.

Deploy

After the product has been put through its paces, we set it loose!

Before the dust settles we start all over again. It really can be that simple.

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Who we are

Sean Ondes
Founder, Design and User Interface/User Experience Engineer

A user interface/user experience focused designer, Sean designs for the web and print with purpose, usability and character in mind. He strongly believes in the power of web technologies to allow the individual to participate in the world they inhabit. Sean currently splits his time between Albuquerque, NM and Oakland, CA.

sean@paintedsparrows.com
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Julian Butt
Founder, Marketing and PR Director

Julian has been involved in the organization and leadership of dozens of not-for-profits and grassroots groups since his first project in high school, founding Students for Social Awareness and its highly successful clothes-for-the-homeless program. Involved in many groups since then, Julian is currently the President of both BikeABQ and Trips For Kids Rio Grande. Self-employed, contracting governments and other clients to teach bicycle safety education since 2008, Julian is also no stranger to public speaking. As part of his contracting work, Julian has delivered over 1,000 presentations, reached over 30,000 youth and over 3,000 adults. Julian is now using his experience in non-profit leadership, business operations and public speaking to help small not-for-profits compete with the big dogs for resources, membership, and influence; through Flying Carpet Services. Applying his experience to other Painted Sparrows projects, Julian is responsible for business operations and marketing, as well as a content contributor to Painted Sparrows websites; BikeHubNM.com and LiveLocalSource.com.

julian@paintedsparrows.com

David Einerson
Founder, Web Applications Programmer and Database Administrator

Dave is a veteran system administrator and software developer passionate about sustainable, efficient, applied systems and development methodologies. Dave is all about a convergence of the how, the why, and the usable in everything he builds. He considers himself a builder, a toolmaker. Dave has been privileged to work professionally as an database administrator and software developer for numerous government and commercial entities for over 20 years.

dave@paintedsparrows.com
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The Painted Sparrows Team


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