Our Management Team

Gary Thompson, President & New Business Development 

Gary began working in the Online Marketing world in May of 1997 for a small web hosting and Domain Name Registration Company.. Within a matter of a couple years, the company was the worlds' largest domain registrar and web hosting provider. Gary was fortunate enough to participate in the negotiations and manage some of the first paid deals with the primary search companies including a strategic partnership with AOL, Google and Yahoo!

It was during this time where Gary learned of the "up and coming" world of Search Marketing and of the many intricacies involved when leveraging a website within the primary search engines. It was then that he decided to entrench himself in the education of Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing. With a strong background of Online Analytics, Statistical Analysis and Biology, Gary is able to understand certain nuances when it comes to the effectiveness of a website and the many levels within. He has brought these 2 very different strengths together and created a formula that works within both lead generation and e-commerce web environments.

In 2003, Gary formed his first start up partnership, Go Traffic Interactive - a Web Marketing agency that focuses on Search Engine Optimization and Usability Best Practices in relation to website design and development. His diverse background allows him to understand many different market segments and because of this, he's able to work well with several different types of clients; from hospitality to commercial/industrial Gary is able to apply his practical life experience and education to create successful strategies for GTI Clients.

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Viktorya Allen, Director and Principal

My management style can be described as inclusive and Socratic, from years of experience in small business development.  I have a varied skill-set that includes accounting and business systems development, project management, interactive SEO marketing and copywriting, and also design and development competencies.  Plus I am an avid blogger. 

This business is exciting, enriching, and often challenging.   I tend to step back and look at the over-all picture, get feedback from team members and sometimes from outside professionals, combining this feedback with intense energy, bringing about quick and sustainable changes.

Whether working with 3 people or a team of 30 and up, management dynamics are pretty much the same for me:  to create a fun working environment, provide excellent customer service, and see to the profitability of the business.  I like people and truly enjoying working with clients from the very beginning of their projects, on through to growing friendships.  I am one among many women who went back to college to finish a degree, after children were grown.  My degree advanced proficiencies, in multi-media digital art relative to the Internet.

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Bill Miller, Search Engine Optimization Specialist

Bill Miller joined the GTI Search Engine Optimization team in 2005. With a degree in Communications from Sonoma State University CA, and with management experience in two Fortune 500 companies, Bill’s commitment to excellence in service is evident. As a senior member of the SEO team, Bill constantly monitors webpage rank, analyzes reports, manipulates Meta data by changing Title Tags, Description Tags and Keywords all to push up placement of each client’s site on Search Engines.

During his first year, he increased online traffic for each of his clients equating to their site producing a better Return on Investment. Bill daily stays up on all the latest SEO techniques through research, by joining in on forums, and reviewing MEDIA websites, all of these tactics greatly benefit GTI clients. A Bay Area California native, Bill has watched the “world wide web develop from its beginnings here in California and now I work in the midst of online media." As Bill continues, “It’s amazing!"

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Rob Mudgett, Internet Technology Director

Rob started out programming a TRS-80 micro computer from Radio Shack, circa 1980. He missed out on the punch cards, but still went through the “save your programs and data on a cassette tape” phase. He still remembers when he first saw a hard drive, "it was a big boxy thing and only held 5 MB of data."

Just as computers have evolved, so has Rob. He started programming using a language called “BASIC” and from there he has expanded his knowledge to include Pascal, C, C++, Fortran, Visual Basic, Macromedia Flash Action Script, Java Script, HTML, PHP, MySQL, ASP, PERL and XML. If you have no clue what the previous sentence means, fear not, Rob also knows English and will use that when speaking to you.

Although his forte` is using the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) platform for coding websites, he can also be found on occasion writing ASP or ASP.NET for Windows servers and even windows applications.  Rob is also skilled with writing AJAX style applications and doing other really cool stuff with web pages in a browser. However, he is more than a programmer. Fascinated by the internet, he has gained a good understanding of web servers and administers GTI's in-house development server and also the main production server used for hosting our web presences that we create. He also knows enough about networking to set up small networks.

Rob moved to California from Florida in late 1999 hoping to take advantage of the internet boom and found gainful employment at Verio, the largest web hosting company at that time. Not liking the cubicle scene and the dot coms turning into dot bombs, he moved over to Huffman Communications for a 3 year stint as the senior technology engineer and wrote the code that is still running several websites today. He has been with GTI since the company started up in 2004.

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