{"id":3,"date":"2007-12-28T06:11:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T06:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astronaut3.com\/blog\/?page_id=3"},"modified":"2025-05-09T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T17:38:12","slug":"company-founders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/a3mg.com\/blog\/company-founders\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Founders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/astronaut3.com\/images\/bill_davey.gif\" alt=\"Bill Pietsch and Davey Thomas\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Celebrating over 25 years in business!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1998, when Bill Pietsch&nbsp;(left)&nbsp;and Davey Thomas&nbsp;(right)&nbsp;founded A3MG, Bill Clinton was President, John Glenn returned to space, Apple introduced the iMac, and Netscape Navigator was the most popular Web browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bill Pietsch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill has been a graphic designer and web programmer since 1995, when he graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County with a degree in Visual Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill has managed and provided creative direction on projects for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute which have included web-based virtual labs for science education and accessibility remediation of educational products to meet WCAG standards for 508 compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a hobby, Bill creates fun and useful web apps available for free on his Buy Me a Coffee account. <a href=\"https:\/\/buymeacoffee.com\/billpietsch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/buymeacoffee.com\/billpietsch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill&#8217;s skills and expertise include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Graphic and UI\/UX design and programming using tools and technologies including Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, VS Code, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Video.js, Highcharts, GSAP, Hype, Bootstrap, React, WordPress, Canvas LMS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Web accessibility development with extensive knowledge in Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Axe testing, Assistive Technologies (AT), semantic HTML, ARIA roles, video captioning, audio descriptions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3-D modeling, video editing and compression using Lightwave 3D, Final Cut Pro, Compressor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Davey Thomas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Davey has been a multimedia developer since 1994, following his graduation from the University of Delaware with a degree in Business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Davey has made significant contributions to a wide range of educational and commercial projects in a variety of roles including interactive programmer, accessibility developer, project manager, and graphic designer. His work with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute&nbsp;features web-based virtual science labs, interactive learning modules, streaming video case studies, and scientific slides and illustrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Davey\u2019s skills and expertise include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Interactive programming using tools and technologies including JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Video.js, Highcharts, GSAP, and Hype<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Web accessibility development with extensive knowledge in Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Axe testing, ARIA roles, and Assistive Technologies (AT)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sound design and editing using Logic Pro, Audacity, and Reason Studio<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating over 25 years in business! In 1998, when Bill Pietsch&nbsp;(left)&nbsp;and Davey Thomas&nbsp;(right)&nbsp;founded A3MG, Bill Clinton was President, John Glenn returned to space, Apple introduced the iMac, and Netscape Navigator was the most popular Web browser. Bill Pietsch Bill has been a graphic designer and web programmer since 1995, when he graduated from the University &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/a3mg.com\/blog\/company-founders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Company Founders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a3mg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a3mg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a3mg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a3mg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a3mg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/a3mg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"https:\/\/a3mg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a3mg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}