Our Firm
We love ideas, interesting problems, and great design.
Mediarich takes talented individuals with a passion for designing excellent experiences and brings them together to let sparks fly. We encourage passion for the work, commit to meeting your goals, and develop close working relationships with our clients.
We’re an interactive agency, and we don’t disappear behind the curtain and emerge with a finished product. We take time to understand your business goals, your underlying principles, and express those as fully and intuitively as we can. We focus on meeting your customers’ goals — because that’s the best way to meet yours.
The Mediarich founders met while working on the website of a Fortune 500 financial services company. In our more than 20 combined years there, we helped implement the company’s first and subsequent B2C site, its complex intranet, various content management systems, several cobranded efforts and much more. We pioneered such online applications as online banking, securities trading, insurance contract completion, e-statements, a full e-commerce store and online billpay services.
MANDI LEMAN, Creative Director and Founder
Mandi isn’t just an amazingly talented interaction designer, she’s the creative center of Mediarich. She manages all artistic endeavors for the company and coordinates the efforts of all project designers. Mandi has her own distinctive style, along with the maturity to subliminate her personal tastes to fully harmonize with a client’s brand and look.
Mandi also leads brainstorming sessions and excels at task analysis and streamlining business processes. Her business experience underlies her intuitive grasp of what will work in a website, on a page, or inside a user’s head.
Another serial entrepreneur, Mandi formed her first graphic design agency — Cosmic Donkey (we’re convinced she has the original logo somewhere) — at the tender age of 12. She ran a retail, bricks-and-mortar store on the San Antonio Riverwalk at 17, and pioneered the online brand xyber.com and its companion eCommerce site, xybermart.
Mandi spends her time with her husband Michael (you’ll meet him below) and an impressive menagerie of pets.
CHRIS MCDERMOTT, Technical Producer and Founder
Chris leads Mediarich’s implementation and development efforts. A true generalist, Chris excels at web application design as well as information and technical architecture. He has an uncanny knack for asking the right questions at the right time, solving an underlying problem that makes lots of other problems go away.
Insatiably curious and detail-oriented, Chris chases down the details and the final answers. Just as he designs client processes, he sets customer service and coding standards for Mediarich, and oversees all development projects.
Chris honed these skills working the web since 1994, and multimedia and 3D modeling applications before that. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas, San Antonio.
Chris personifies a uniquely Texan amalgam of macho cowboy, car lover and sensitive Renaissance man.
MICHAEL LEMAN, Production Manager
Michael’s the guy who sets the project schedules, assigns work and keeps the Mediarich crew on task and on track. He performs quality assurance testing, does some editing and coding, and plenty of necessary handholding.
If he appears to analyze your project with the clear-eyes of a scientist, it’s because he holds an M.S. in microbiology and immunology, doing research on the vaccinia virus. (Go ahead, ask him — we dare you.)
He spends all the time he can with favorite macroorganisms Mandi (see above) and his fabulously creative 14-year-old daughter.
RICH HARRELL, Videographer, Producer & Editor
Rich is — you guessed it — “the” original rich in Mediarich. With 25 years in video, Rich handles all video production projects for the group, large and small. He has a fully equipped digital editing suite, duplicating equipment and the talent to make it all sing.