What makes Mango Design unique

Mango Design is the natural extension and amalgamation of my creative and technical mind.  The journey has been an exciting ride!

In college I studied broadcasting, film, and graphic art graduating with a BA in Communications. 

After college, though, with unique people skills developed from a summer selling books door to door with the famous Southwestern Company [While in high school I wanna add!] and a genetic predisposition to be comfortable talking with anyone I met, post college I pursued a sales career that rewards such traits, finding myself as National Marketing Director for a large Atlanta corporation by my early 30's.

In 1984 that momentum was interrupted when I re-evaluated my life in light of the greatest change in my life, that of becoming a Christian.

At that point traditional career goals became secondary to following Jesus and His plan for my life and my family.  As a result He gave me the career of a lifetime...as a bush pilot for Him over the rainforests of Eastern Ecuador with Mission Aviation Fellowship (a.k.a "MAF") .

From 1990 thru 1993 I went to flight school, receiving my Commercial Pilots License as well as Airframe & Powerplant Mechanics License.  From there I joined Mission Aviation Fellowship and after MAF advanced flight training and a year of Spanish language school in Costa Rica, along with my family, we "landed" in Shell Ecuador.  In Ecuador I flew 3,000 hours for MAF over the lush jungles at the headwaters of the Amazon River carrying missionaries, medical teams and jungle dwellers including Shuar, Atshuar, Quichua, and Waorani Indians.

In the evenings, after my plane was back in the hangar, I began studying and developing a new skill set in web design, development, along with digital streaming video and digital photography (I'd had a Nikon F2 film camera for years before though) which culminated in my first website, Junglepilot.org.  This chronicled my jungle adventures with streaming, video, a blog, photo essays, and regular image rich newsletters to friends and supporters back in the US. 

Just for grins, here is one of my first streaming video clips of me landing on a short jungle airstrip (circa 2000) which was pieced together with 30 second clips from one of the early digital still cameras that shot video.  CLICK HERE TO WATCH THIS FLASH VIDEO

With these skills, my background in marketing management and lots of experience as a field pilot, in 2002 I was asked to join the MAF Recruiting Department as their Southeast Recruiter and to develop their first website (mafrecruiting.org).   What happened next birthed Mango Design.

Once in the US, people began noticing my work for MAF and began contacting me as a consultant and also asked me to take on various free lance projects.  I never advertised my services or looked for work, however free lance web consulting and development market was booming and opportunities to work with quality organizations, ministries and companies kept coming. Thus in 2004 I officially hung out my shingle and Mango Design was born.

Since then I have worked with clients all over the US. 

Growth has brought about opportunities ...internships

Mango Design has grown to the point that I am looking for talented people seeking that first real-life project they can sink their teeth into and add to their portfolio.

Our location so close to Auburn University and their acclaimed Art and Industrial Design departments has brought several such people our way already which helps keep our work fresh with new ways of looking at and meeting clients design objectives. 

Specifically Mango Design is interested in meeting folks with strong skills in web design (no Front Page experts please;-), graphic arts, video production and PHP/ XML/ JavaScript. 

Call Sandy or contact us via our contact form if you are interested in interning with Mango Design.