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Merge Media LogoAt Merge Media, we offer a better way to tackle your marketing and branding challenges. That's because we ask questions, understand what needs to be done, and then assign our expertise to fit your unique challenge. Your Merge Team stays with you throughout the process, ready to answer questions, make recommendations, and apply our enormous knowledge base to the challenge. We are top-tiered professionals, each with over fifteen years of industry experience, and that is the kind of expertise you want behind your service or product. Web, Mobile Apps, Gaming Apps, Social Apps, IT Development, Broadcast, HD Digital Video, Print Advertising, Graphic Design, Copywriting - we offer it all. And we offer a better way of doing business. Because while technology may be our strength, relationships are our foundation.
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Merge Media's development, design and IT team works within our "Build Better Businesses" strategy, through B2B (Business to Business) and B2C (Business to Consumer) services. Innovative Branding and Marketing seeks out cutting edge mediums like Video streaming, Social Applications for web 2.0 and Gaming Apps for mobile devices. Merge Media is a leader in Web Design, Mobile Development, IT Development and Marketing, earning the trust of small businesses and major corporations alike.
Stephen Previtera - Senior Creative DirectorPrevitera brings 25 years of creative television broadcast, print and web experience to Merge. He works both as an Art Director and Copywriter, his work appearing in Print, The One Show, and Show South. He is the author of five books, has been a speaker at writer's conferences, the College of William & Mary, and a guest on NPR. His award winning concept-driven work encompasses Healthcare, Finance, Government Entities, Non-profits, Consumer Products and Services. As Executive Creative Director of his own highly successful advertising firm, Previtera oversaw every aspect of the Creative, Corporate I.D., Branding and Media processes. He is a founding Board Member of James River Writers, a literary society based in Richmond, Virginia.

"Nominated in 2011 by Foundation Chair for Board of Directors of the Podium Foundation, Richmond Virginia, a non-profit organization working with inner-city public high school students and teachers to increase the teaching and learning of writing skills."
Thomas Maher - Director of PhotographyNot only a Director of Photography, but skilled editor, musician and sound designer for video production, Maher has perfected the use of the Canon 5D HD for video shorts, still photography and location capture. His assignments have brought him around the world, including underwater photography, landscape time-lapse, architectural and portrait work. Maher's work as a sound designer have earned him work with Mercedes Benz and Men's Health Magazine. His production capabilities have been harnessed by clients such as Wranger Jeans, Cruzen Rum and UPS.
Sean Shields - Graphic & Application DirectorAs a classically trained Graphic Designer, Shields has served as Chief Creative Officer for Skyymap, Inc. a web/graphic design company. He has been the creative lead on projects with such Fortune 500 Companies as Macy's, Morgan Stanley and Coca-Cola and government entities such as the U.S. Air Force. Shields experience includes the creation of graphic apps for mobile phone and i-pad applications, rendering in vector based softwares for web use, and extensive cross- media interface solutions.
Leon Bellamy, Sr. - Web & Application EngineerBellamy's expertise as Master Web Developer and Mobile Application Engineer embeds Merge at the cutting edge of today's media explosion. His work has garnered the confidence of such clients as United Airlines, Wal-Mart, The Chicago Bears, Mastercard and B.E.T. A developer of 15 years and expert in seven coding languages, Bellamy has partnered with such forward-looking enterprises as The Green Advocates, representing over 440 Energy Patents, and ShadowCare (a product by Noland Joiner Senior VP and CTO at GE Healthcare IT). His work extends to programming for game applications, and his first Mobile Game release was "Flippers Pinball" available now at the App Store.