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Susan Isaacs
Managing Director
- Susan's desk isn't a disaster area. When wood is frightened, it pees paper.
- Trained in architecture, self taught in business, with more fashion sense than Liza Minelli.
- Susan can wrestle numbers, design a brochure, and have orange peel tea before noon. Too bad she doesn't come back after lunch.
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Susan has way too many cats. She collects them, just like she collects untidy desktop icons and coffee cups. She is one of the few people out there who screens her calls so that she never misses a telemarketer. Sadly, the romance is one-sided and they never want to give her their number even though they always have hers.
With degrees in architecture and electronic design, and informal training in foreign accents, Susan does absolutely no architecture at all, but has joined in for the electric slide at a few weddings. She is a spreadsheet junkie and will fight you if you try to neatly arrange her Photoshop tool palettes. While she has earned the respect of her peers and the disdain of her enemies, Susan remains level-headed and easy going as she champions the cause of great design and great business.
Originally from Grenada in the very southern Caribbean, Susan has been known to hand out bottles of rum indiscriminately. We've tried to stop her, but she's descended from pirates and will make you walk the plank if you cross her and her rum bottle. Her parents are very proud.
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Philip Joyner
Technical Director
- Editing, motion graphics, video production, 3D, Webcoding, actionscripting...but will he put the damn toilet seat down? Noooooo...
- As Technical Director of Paragon, Phil has put in place processes to ensure that interconnectivity and synergy are maintained. Just be sure not to trip over the tin cans and strings when you come up the steps.
- That's not pale; he's just made of ones and zeros.
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What can you say about this master of his own little technological galaxy? With the battle cry "Profanity! Profanity!" Phil wrangles Demons to their knees, and makes them weep and plead for mercy. Sure he has a degree in Motion Graphics and his designs have won awards, and yeah, we know he's Maya certified and can play a mean acoustic guitar, but what it all comes down to is this: great talent, a ridiculous sense of humor and the inability to be away from him computer or Cannon XL2 for more than five minutes. And he's good. Really, really good.
Plus there's that whole ballet dancing thing. He's hasn't won awards for that. Yet.
Not only can the man stare down a CSS code until it writes itself in sheer terror, but he is famous around 220 E. Hall St for what we like to call his "happy dance". Few have seen it, and those who have can't get enough.
What? Your computer's broken? No problem. All Phil needs is a shoelace and a hamburger bun and you will be blazing through your project or doing a random Google search in no time.
You need to shoot a commercial? Where? What time? Intro animation? 3D? Cool...DONE.
And DONE.
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Andrew Davies
Creative Director
- Drew adds not only experience and great design sense, but also a few feet to the height quota at Paragon.
- He's won so many awards he actually burns them at night to stay warm.
- From print to broadcast, Drew's sense of design transcends media to produce greatness. Now if we could just get him to wear pants around the office.
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What do you mean you never heard of him? Where have you been? Everybody's heard of Drew. He's that good.
Feeling sad about how pale you are? No problem. Drew's natural Jamaican glow is plenty golden for all of us. Low self-esteem? Hah! Here! Have one of his GAZILLION awards; we don't know where to stash them anyway. Right now we're using eight of them as uprights for a shelving unit.
Just know this: Drew's got you covered. His degrees in Illustration, 2D animation and Broadcast Design, and his volleyball skillz mean he can get your design done and play well with others at the same time. He's the Creative Director at Paragon and will call you out if you start hanging out with shady-looking fonts and messing around with whacked-out color palettes.
Most importantly though - he's tall. That shelving system is way too high for everyone else to reach. But Drew can. He can do everything. As a matter of fact his height is the reason he's the CD. He can see what everyone's working on. While he's sitting down. In his office. At his desk. Not only that, but Drew has positioned himself as a dominant figure in the Caribbean art scene, by simply standing up when he's at an art related function.
That's really tall.
