Steve Garcia
" TradeMark Media has a great, personal environment. With the openness and respect for one another, it feels like family. "
Education: BA in Mass Communications – Advertising, Texas State University
Steve is TradeMark Media's lead front-end developer. With his background in advertising, he is constantly looking at ways for visitors to get the most out of their experience while surfing a website. Steve also keeps his eye out for new trends in web functionality to keep websites feeling fresh and new. As a developer on the TradeMark Media team, Steve works hard to ensure website code is clean, efficient, and compliant.
Through the years, Steve has gained experience developing websites for a wide range of organizations including local non-profits, small businesses, and internatoional companies. At TradeMark, his responsibilities include creating site code and content management system structures that are easy to maintain and search engine-friendly.
When Steve's not cranking out code, he enjoys spending time with his wife, son and their 90-pound black Labrador Retriever. He often takes time during the week to play with his band as their drummer and dabbles a bit on the acoustic guitar. Other hobbies include screen printing and photography.
favorite things:
- Live bands (we are in Austin after all)
- Wakeboarding
- A great action movie
- Hearing his son say “Daddy!”
favorite online resources:
pet peeves:
- Table-based websites
- Internet Explorer 7
- Highway traffic
- Rude people
organizations:
facts:
- Steve went to 13 different schools from elementary to high school.
- Is an aquarium and reptile aficionado. He's had pets ranging from mice, turtles and salt-water reef aquariums to lizards, snakes and chameleons.
- Has lived on both the East and West coasts of the U.S. as well as the Gulf of Mexico
- His favorite actor is Tim Allen and he owns almost every season of Home Improvement on DVD.
