Who We Are

Robert Cote - Solution Architect & Application Developer

Robert Cote

Bob Cote, a former US Marine, has been developing enterprise level web applications since early 2001. After working in the web industry for several years, Bob formed Brattle Consulting Group, Inc. BCG specializes in providing consulting, application development, logo design, website design, copywriting, strategic marketing & usability consulting, hosting and email services. With two patents pending for his contribution to SMS technology, several internet awards and countless referrals from colleagues and clients, Bob's abilities are tried, tested and true.

Check out our website www.brattleconsultinggroup.com


Shea Baker & Matti Ulvila - Designers

3Thought

3thought is the partnership of Shea Baker and Matt Ulvila. Shea graduated from RIT and Matt is an alumni of Keene State College. After working together for nearly 4 years, they decided to break out on their own and founded 3thought in the spring of 2009. With their 24 years of combined design experience, they are able to offer their clients a wide variety of service with specialties in identity development, promotional campaigns and collateral development.

Check our their website : http://3thoughtcreative.com or follow them on Twitter: http://twitter.com/3thought



George Dirth - Application Developer

George Dirth

George Dirth is an Application Developer who has been working with Brattle Consulting Group since August 2008. He recently graduated from Oregon State University with a degree in Information Systems with a Business Minor. He has been involved in web development and application development for nearly a decade. George brings with him a fresh set of ideas, a strong desire to meet challenges, and a lot of energy. These traits – coupled with a substantial amount of experience and a solid technical mindset – make him a great asset to the Helping the Hub team.




Jeremy Drouin - Flash Specialist, Front-end Developer & Designer

Jeremy Drouin

Jeremy Drouin has been in the web development industry since 2002. In that time, he has worked on the design and development of several award winning and nationally known websites as well as many local clients. Jeremy's primary skill is with with CSS layouts, focusing on creating clean, fast loading webpages. Jeremy is also a very adept Flash and actionscript developer and enjoys creating flash widgets and applications that add to the web experience.





Valerie Carson - Client Services & Copywriter

Valerie Carson

Valerie Carson is a copywriter from Seattle, Wa. with a strong background in writing and communications. She studied at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore. where she gained valuable experience in journalism and grammatical training, making her an excellent editor and content creator for any site developed by Helping the Hub.

Carson has been working for Brattle Consulting Group, Inc for the past seven months, creating all content for both the newsletter and blog, in addition to supplying press releases and case studies. She created the majority of the copy content for two of Brattle's latest products – SubItUp.com and SignalSMS.com – and has assisted many Brattle clients with website content proofreading and editing.


James Ringrose - Photographer

James Ringrose

James Ringrose Photography specializes in high quality digital food, restaurant, architectural, commercial portrait and product photography. James began film photography in 1970 and has enthusiastically taken hundreds of thousands of pictures since then. With well over 300 clients and in excess 78,000 food and other images taken for the New England foodservices and restaurant industry alone, James has worked for just about every kind of food and restaurant imaginable from ultra high-end private hotels and clubs to great BBQ and innovative fast food joints.

See some of our work and special new client offers at www.jamesringrosephotography.com


Amanda Garabrant - Photographer

Amanda Garabrant

Amanda Garabrant of Garabrant Photography specializes in commercial, product, event and wedding photography. She is also known for her portraiture photography working out of her studio located in the historic mill region of downtown Manchester, New Hampshire.

Always having a passion for photography she began her photography career in 1995. Amanda shot her first wedding at the age of sixteen and after high school pursued study in photography at Endicott College and Chester College. She also holds a degree in Business Administration from Southern New Hampshire University.

You can see more of her work at http://www.garabrantphotography.com



HELPING THE HUB

March 20th, 2009
Check out our first project: SweetCierras.com! After her website designer and manager seemingly disappeared, Lynn Dion, owner of Sweet Cierras and designer of custom wedding and special occasion cakes, contacted Helping the Hub.
Read more in our Recent Projects section!

March 10th, 2009
Interested in how we got started? See more in our About Us section and visit the newsletter section of www.brattleconsultinggroup.com to read a quick article.

February 24th, 2009
Helping the Hub is made up of a first rate group of web professionals who want to help struggling small businesses and non-profit organizations. Read our bios on the Who We Are page.