We enjoy making custom websites. Creating unique, usable, compliant applications that utilize the latest trends to meet the needs of our clients pushes us to be better at what we do and give the client a better product.
Eddie O’Leary
Hailing from Winchester, VA Eddie moved to Richmond in 1999 to attend Virginia Commonwealth University. At VCU Eddie studied Political Science and was VCU’s Student Body President. While SGA President he lobbied the state for lower tuition, campus safety, and more affordable books for students. After college Eddie started an internship at The Virginia House of Delegates. While at the State House he maintained the legislative branch website and developed The Virginia Capitol Foundation website. Eddie left the House of Delegates in 2007 and started CO+LAB Multimedia. CO+LAB’s first client was Buz and Ned’s Real Barbecue. Thanks to Buz’ trust and enthusiasm CO+LAB was able to grow from word of mouth into a web development company. The only thing Eddie likes more than developing websites is playing Racquetball.
- Email: eddie@teamcolab.com
- Phone: 804-433-3582 x 229
Ralph Otto
In 2008, Ralph graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Visual Communication Design from Virginia Tech. After graduation, he moved to Richmond to further his career in Web Design. Shortly after moving, he met Eddie who shared a dream of high quality design, standards compliant HTML, and the drive to create great products. A year later, he began working fulltime at CO+LAB, acting as the company’s lead designer and art director. Ralph designs for usability, fusses over the details, and doesn’t mind working nights and weekends. He always seeks to improve himself, gleaning inspiration from packaging, advertising, traditional art, design blogs, and of course, the big names in the web design industry.
- Email: ralph@teamcolab.com
- Phone: 804-433-3582 x 461
Andrew Coulter
Andrew grew up in Lynchburg, and attended the University of Mary Washington in nearby Fredericksburg where he received a bachelor’s degree in English as well as taking a number of art studio classes. After college, he moved to Richmond to pursue an internship in web design and quickly discovered a practical application to his life-long love of art and design. Andrew appreciates fresh, innovative, and functional design and enjoys trying to apply the same principles to his own work. His attention to detail means he appreciates smart layouts, clean code, and cross-browser-compatibility all of which he brings to each project he takes on.
- Email: andrew@teamcolab.com
- Phone: 804–433-3582 x 464
Francis Yaconiello
Francis is what you would expect from a master PHP programmer except he doesn’t wear a cape or carry nunchako (I know, we were disappointed too). Francis excels at providing a strategic technical vision to a project. During initial planning Francis makes our ideas technically possible. His skill set includes: PHP programming with a strong focus on the Zend PHP Framework, MySQL data modeling and development, Javascript, C#.NET, C++, Ruby, and Python / Django. Francis graduated from VCU in 2010 with a degree in Information Systems.
- Email: francis@teamcolab.com
- Phone: 804-433-3582 x 465
Matthew Ferry
Matthew is a recent transplant to Richmond. His philosophy on web design centers around clarity and usability, and he has a healthy obsession with typefaces, detail, and simple, well-crafted user interface. If he could eat these things for breakfast, he probably would, except for the fact that he’s a vegetarian. Matthew joined the CO+LAB team in 2011 in order to push pixels, but he tries not to be too rough about it. After all, pixels have feelings too.
- Email: matthew@teamcolab.com
- Phone: 804-433-3582 x 462
Julie Smith
Julie Smith, traffic manager at CO+LAB with a focus on Organizational Leadership and Management from Regent University, serves as the latest addition to the team. Originally hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio, Julie spent four years dancing with the Richmond Ballet prior to joining as project and account coordinator for the team. Don’t let the ballerina persona fool you; she doesn’t flit around when it comes to timelines.
- Email: julie@teamcolab.com
- Phone: 804-433-3582 x 463
Josh Scarbrough
Josh comes to CO+LAB with a Bachelor’s in History (UVA-Wise), a Master’s in Education (Southwest Baptist University), five years of college baseball coaching experience, and a few college batting records under his belt. Originally from Ashburn, VA, Josh started doing freelance graphic design work in 2008. In 2010, he decided to figure out how websites worked. By 2011, he had taught himself HTML5, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, and some pretty nifty tricks with WordPress. Josh is passionate about creating efficient code that fuses great design with intelligent functionality. His explicit attention to detail and lack of tolerance for anything other than immaculate code has allowed him to fit right in here at CO+LAB.
- Email: josh@teamcolab.com
- Phone: 804-433-3582 x 465
Howard Buckler
Howard joined CO+LAB in 2012. He has a BS in math and physics and has taught himself several programming languages including C, various iterations of VB, .NET, python, HTML. Howard has worked mostly with financial institutions since 1995 gaining an understanding of their distinctive analytical needs. He has worked on invoicing, fixed income analytics, general ledger, reporting, system conversion and other projects over the last 20 years. He enjoys creating solutions to complex problems.
- Email: howard@teamcolab.com
- Phone: 804-433-3582