Our principal, Mike Cassie, has been developing websites since 1995 and brings with him many years of previous design knowledge from other disciplines. His background in the area of visual media, interface design and information architecture, coupled with his experience in project management and business development allow him to offer his clients the balanced perspective that help their projects achieve success.

Mike originally began studying issues of user interaction in the form of architectural design. He has an undergraduate honours degree in architecture from the University of Manitoba and spent several years working in the field. He later went on to an honours degree in visual arts at the University of Victoria.

He has been the webmaster for a well-respected museum located in Victoria, BC., helped co-found a Vancouver-based web design firm out of which Coalescent Design was born and was also a principal in a web applications provider start-up. He has also taught web design at Langara College.