Nick Hodulik, President and CEO
Nick Hodulik is founder and CEO of General Things. Nick has been working with computers for over 20 years and has a broad understanding of business, technology, people, and how they all interact.
As Director of Technology for Razorfish Subnetwork, which included such high-traffic sites as disinfo.com and bust.com, he managed all of their internal information technology, as well as website development and programming.
After Razorfish, driven by his unending love of cocktails and technology, he helped program and launch the now-defunct Remote Lounge in New York City’s Bowery, which was outfitted with hundreds of cameras arranged in a modern-day video “telephone bar.”
Nick made his way to San Francisco in 2001 and started General Things, Inc., where he has since been at the helm. In his spare time Nick laughs and tries to make other people laugh. When he’s not doing that he’s lifting heavy objects or cooking delicious ones.
Jonathan Taylor, Vice President
JT brings over 10 years of experience to General Things from the technology, healthcare and real estate industries. In college, his professional career started by developing backup hardware and software solutions for large enterprise clients. Subsequent roles included soirees in Product Management, Marketing, Program Management and Operations. He’s been hooked on coming up with creative solutions for clients and dealing with complex project challenges ever since.
He currently provides account management and project consulting to Tolleson Design for a number of their key corporate clients such as HP, Johnson & Johnson, Genentech, VMware, CVS/pharmacy, Steelcase and Oracle, while helping out on technology strategy and other internal projects for the studio. He enjoys working through the creative process on both print and digital projects, while helping to shape branding, identity and influence marketing decisions along the way. He holds a BA in Business Administration and a second degree in Biology. He loves to laugh and enjoys eating most any food, but often dreams of having an endless supply of peanut butter.
Demian Rosenblatt, Senior Designer & Branding Expert
Demian combines his experience in storytelling and brand theory with proven design results. With over 14 years of hands-on, problem-solving, supervisory design experience, Demian’s work has run the gamut from inclusive corporate identity and branding design, user/web interface and packaging design, print/outdoor/TV advertising and motion picture graphic animation. Demian also created early groundbreaking interactive work for the web and for CD and DVD-ROM.
As ZEFER’s Director of Branding, he got to work with Time-Warner, Akamai, The Walt Disney Company, IBM and AOL. His branding design experience since then has provided solutions for Michael Jordan’s SolToro Tequila Grill, The National College of Design & Technology, DorfmanPacific, Munro Shoes, ThermoGenesis, The Red Hat Society, Equator Extreme Anywear, Scala and Hartford York. His graphic animations have been prominently featured in motion pictures such as Seven, Executive Decision, Outbreak and Crimson Tide, and his work as an Art Director yielded a fresh atmosphere and a new perspective at the House of Blues.
Besides the creative side of his work, Demian is equally technically adept. He is capable of supervising and working with high-end print, web, video and motion picture production, and uses the latest cost-effective digital technology. Despite this breadth of experience and media, Demian is always quite focused on what really matters: finding the simple truth that lies beneath every problem, and then using design to solve that problem.
Demian attended the California Institute of the Arts with a BFA in Fine Arts. He currently teaches Branding Theory and Practice as well as Graphic Design at San Francisco State University’s Multimedia Studies Program.
Jeremy Linder, Developer
As a boy, Jeremy’s parents had high hopes for his career aspirations. His mother was sure he’d be a doctor and his father was confident he’d be a lawyer. He sure showed them.
Jeremy received his Masters in Computer Science from Columbia University and his BA from the CUNY Honors College. His main points of interest during school were computer graphics, computer vision and internet technologies. Jeremy’s worked with a variety of frameworks and has written a couple of his own. He eats programming languages for dinner, grilled lightly with a twist of lemon and has a love of designing whole systems from database to user interface. Besides kryptonite and the color yellow, his main weakness is that he tends to write solutions to problems faster than it takes him to find an already-written solution elsewhere.
He currently lives on the Upper West Side in NYC, where when he’s not ruining his eyes staring at his computer monitors, he is either playing keyboards for his band, except Saturday, cooking for whoever will eat from his kitchen or warding off the popular opinion that he does, in fact, get no sleep.
Glenn Weatherson, Designer/Developer
Glenn is a twenty-something front-end web designer having fun with CSS & WordPress. Glenn got his first taste of grassroots design in high-school, documenting his friends and daily life through a personal blog which eventually turned into an ongoing chip away at the craft. This led to working with both small and large business, as well as predominant freelance work.
He gets a kick out of helping individual business owners work through their web ideas while trimming all of the fat, especially if that company is bicycle- or outdoor-related. He enjoys working with teams like PLA and ZLOG using an original approach to figure out what they genuinely want.
When he’s not pushing pixels Glenn enjoys riding any type of bicycle, exploring the outdoors or headshotting in Call of Duty.
Carlo Mogavero, Developer
Carlo Mogavero has been involved with technology for 20 years including IT and web technologies. He has created standards based websites for 12 years and Drupal based websites for 5 years, leveraging Drupal’s strength of site scaffolding, framework extension, and community focus. He has applied his enjoyment of problem solving for varied types of clientele from musicians to non-profits to conferences, developer communities and others.
Chris Hein, Designer/Developer
Chris grew up in Northern California with silicon flowing through his veins, being taught at a young age about many aspects of the high-tech industry. He brings a world of youth to our office with his experiences as a web developer/designer. He has been in the industry for over 4 years, developing/designing applications for real estate companies, corporations, and online communities. He is currently finishing his degree in design from the Academy of Art. He has a strong attention for detail, and is absolutely fascinated with the way people interact with the social web. He is always trying to find new ways to create better user experiences.
When the design process is “over”, Chris can be found hacking away a ruby code, buried in unix commands or soothing the ways of the php monster. Following some of his favorite acronyms AMSDEOT (A method should do exactly one thing), and CAPITROAE (cut & paste is the root of all evil) along the way. When not basking in the glow of his 23 inch monitor, Chris can likely be found throwing himself off bridges or falling out of airplanes in the greater Bay Area, as the adrenaline, and gallons of Red Bull, “gives him wings.” chrishein.com
Ryan Hennessey, Project Manager
Ryan recently graduated from California State University, Monterey Bay with a degree in Business Administration. Her leadership skills and her interest in social media/networking and web applications geared her towards project management. The redesign and development of the professional LGBTA social networking site dot429 recently relaunched under her supervision.
She joined General Things to help organize and guide projects as well as provide a complete process description of the project to each client. She’s slowly becoming rather geeky and thus fits in quite well with the rest of the team. General Things says that they can “explain technology to anybody,” and she knows first hand that this is true. Everyone is incredibly willing to teach, even to the most technically challenged of them all (Ryan). Lastly but certainly not least, she tries to keep everyone laughing while working hard.
Sharon Callaghan, Office & Finance Manager
Hailing from Ireland, Sharon majored at University College Dublin in …. Improvisation (Sociology, really). After traveling the world seeking the Meaning of Life, the Absolute Truth, etc, she sailed through the Golden Gate, decided ‘enough is enough’ and stayed. Applying an effortless fixation for order, neatness and structure to managing other people’s finances (as opposed to her own, some say), Sharon has built a thriving financial administration business with clients in Realty, Construction and Web Design. Working on the simple principle that ‘debit is the side nearest the window’, all went fine until they moved her desk – that was August 2008. Ever inventive, she now insists on working only in windowless offices and vetoes all attempts to alter her working environment.
When not balancing the books, Sharon chases after her two sons among the hills and forests of Marin County – she continues to search for the Meaning of Life, the Absolute Truth, etc – and is determined to disprove the widely accepted answer of 42.