Digital agency HotHouse adds 15 new staff
HotHouse, one of Australia’s leading independent digital agencies, is kicking off the new year by swelling its ranks across the business.
On the back of its most successful year to date the agency has added 15 new staff to handle the increasing workload from both existing clients and new business wins.
The new recruits have been hired to fill roles in client services, Ruby on Rails development, quality assurance, production and project management.
HotHouse staff numbers now stand at over 70 making it one of the largest, full service digital agencies in the country.
Simon van Wyk (top row, far right) and Rob Olver (middle row far right) pictured with 14 of the new recruits.
Ian Neale has been appointed to a newly created role of test and application support lead. Neale brings with him 10 years of quality testing experience, having worked directly for or consulting to big organisations such as Guinness, Sony, PayPal, Sony Ericsson, McLaren to name a few.
Paul Thompson joins as account director to the Toyota team to continue the pioneering work for Australia’s leading auto manufacturer. Prior to joining HotHouse, Thompson worked for Joshua-G2 managing the Nescafe/ Nestlé account.
Lucy Ahearne joins HotHouse as a project manager with 7 years’ experience under her belt working with Clients such as Qantas, Tourism Australia, Gold Coast Tourism, HSBC and Nestlé.
In the development team, Sean Shou, Shahjehan Tariq (ST) and Jax Gibb bring a wealth of experience in Java /J2EE development, while Melvin Sembrano bolsters the agency’s Ruby on Rails expertise. Sembrano has 12 years’ programming experience which includes more than 5 years’ coding in Ruby.
In the creative team, Suki Roh joins as a new designer. Roh’s portfolio boasts work for clients such as 3 Mobile, Westfield, Sanitarium, Allianz and Subaru.
Three new hires swell the resources of the PageCraft team. Mark Walsh joins with previous experience at Webling and Alpha Salmon. Chris Lapa, with 7 years’ front end development experience and James Whitney with prior experience working for agencies including Suede, Wide Open Media and Magicdust.
Four new producers Christian Berechree, Sumen Singh, Chintan Dave and Ayden Evans swell the ranks of the production team.
Says Rob Olver, HotHouse executive director: “Client spending on digital is growing faster than ever. As mobile starts to shape as the nub of a brand experience and social delivers the ultimate way to connect to your audience, we’re augmenting our talented team with more experienced individuals who will help us deliver our rapidly increasingly digital workload.”