Jason Berg

President, co-owner

Jason joined the team in early 2015 to help leverage Pixo’s incredible reputation for developing user focused custom software and web applications, and to kick start the next phase of growth for the company.

With a degree in business, an eye for design, and a passion for technology Jason has played a unique and interesting role for organizations of all sizes; providing a thoughtful ear and keen insights to extremely talented individuals on all sides of creative engineering projects.

Jason works with clients to understand their unique business challenges, uncover strategic opportunities, clearly define organizational needs, and ensure each project is set up for success.

When not advocating for clients and the Pixo team, Jason is either in the kitchen cooking with his amazing wife, mixing up obscure cocktails, helping lead a smallish church, catering for friends (occasionally), or trying to keep up with his three incredible college age daughters.

EXPERTISE

Digital Strategy

EDUCATION

EMPLOYMENT

Allie Ofisher

Lead User Experience Designer

Allie is an Illinois native interested in how technology can change human behavior, and in return how we can work together to build insightful, practical solutions.

She cultivated her creative passion and interest in human behavior by earning a B.F.A in Industrial Design from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before Pixo, Allie was a designer for Creative Services at the University of Illinois. 

As a UX Designer at Pixo, Allie uses a combination of logic and creativity to bring clarity to each challenge and help improve our interactions with technology.

Allie fancies neatly folded clothes; her two fur baby cats, Skulliver and Squish; and a well brewed cup of coffee.

EXPERTISE

User experience design, wireframing, research & strategy, visual design, interaction design.

EDUCATION

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – B.F.A. in Industrial Design

EMPLOYMENT

Pixo, 2016-Present – User Experience Designer

University of Illinois Creative Services, 2014-2016 – User Experience Designer

Freelance Design, 2011-2016 – Designer

Lindsey Gates-Markel

Senior Content Strategist

Lindsey helps teams realize their vision and reach their goals through thoughtful discovery work and content design. She likes asking questions and uncovering the narratives behind users’ perceptions and behaviors. She can break a website down into a content model faster than you can say “metadata.”

From 90s zine culture to an MFA in creative writing, Lindsey is a hands-on maker and reflective thinker. She met the job description for Pixo’s first-ever content strategist with a vision of her own, convincing us that content strategy and her years of acting and writing converged in one essential skill: empathy. 

EXPERTISE

Content strategy, interviews, discovery, content inventories, content modeling, synthesis & analysis, usability testing, writing for the web

EDUCATION

Lesley University – Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing

Monmouth College – Bachelor’s in Arts, English

EMPLOYMENT

Pixo, August 2020 – present: Senior Content Strategist

Pixo, April 2018 – August 2020: Lead Content Strategist

Pixo, 2015 – April 2018: Content Strategist

Girl Scouts of Central Illinois, 2012–2015: Grant and Technical Writer

Wolfram, 2010–2012: Copy Editor

Volition, 2008–2010: Receptionist

Allie Ofisher

Lead User Experience Designer

Allie is an Illinois native interested in how technology can change human behavior, and in return how we can work together to build insightful, practical solutions.

She cultivated her creative passion and interest in human behavior by earning a B.F.A in Industrial Design from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before Pixo, Allie was a designer for Creative Services at the University of Illinois. 

As a UX Designer at Pixo, Allie uses a combination of logic and creativity to bring clarity to each challenge and help improve our interactions with technology.

Allie fancies neatly folded clothes; her two fur baby cats, Skulliver and Squish; and a well brewed cup of coffee.

EXPERTISE

User experience design, wireframing, research & strategy, visual design, interaction design.

EDUCATION

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – B.F.A. in Industrial Design

EMPLOYMENT

Pixo, 2016-Present – User Experience Designer

University of Illinois Creative Services, 2014-2016 – User Experience Designer

Freelance Design, 2011-2016 – Designer

Brian Walters

Lead Web Developer

EXPERTISE

JavaScript: Angular, React, Vue, Mocha & Chai, Express, Nunjucks, GreenSock Animation Platform, Stylus
PHP: Symfony, Doctrine, Twig, Sonata

EDUCATION

Parkland College – Digital Media

EMPLOYMENT

Pixo, 2018 – present – Lead Web Developer

Pixo, 2014-2018 – Developer

2wav, 2009 – 2014 –  Developer

Lindsey Gates-Markel

Senior Content Strategist

Lindsey helps teams realize their vision and reach their goals through thoughtful discovery work and content design. She likes asking questions and uncovering the narratives behind users’ perceptions and behaviors. She can break a website down into a content model faster than you can say “metadata.”

From 90s zine culture to an MFA in creative writing, Lindsey is a hands-on maker and reflective thinker. She met the job description for Pixo’s first-ever content strategist with a vision of her own, convincing us that content strategy and her years of acting and writing converged in one essential skill: empathy. 

EXPERTISE

Content strategy, interviews, discovery, content inventories, content modeling, synthesis & analysis, usability testing, writing for the web

EDUCATION

Lesley University – Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing

Monmouth College – Bachelor’s in Arts, English

EMPLOYMENT

Pixo, August 2020 – present: Senior Content Strategist

Pixo, April 2018 – August 2020: Lead Content Strategist

Pixo, 2015 – April 2018: Content Strategist

Girl Scouts of Central Illinois, 2012–2015: Grant and Technical Writer

Wolfram, 2010–2012: Copy Editor

Volition, 2008–2010: Receptionist

Nicole Moore

Project Manager & QA Specialist

After growing up not too far away in Normal, Nicole moved to Urbana to attend the University of Illinois and has been in town ever since. While at the University, she was heavily involved in the English department and enjoyed interning at the Spurlock Museum. After graduating in 2014 with a degree in English, she joined Human Kinetics as a managing editor. There she discovered her love for detail-oriented projects and outside-the-box thinking, skills that would translate well into her roles as Project Manager and QA Specialist at Pixo, which she began in 2017. Nicole is passionate about making all the puzzle pieces fit to ensure the success of a project, as well as the happiness of the clients, users, and her teammates.

When not at Pixo, Nicole can be found at any number of local trivia nights or at agility classes with her dog, Mylo. She enjoys running, playing the violin, and watching any and all TV.

EDUCATION

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign – Bachelor’s in English

EMPLOYMENT

Pixo, 2017 – Present – Project Manager & QA Specialist

Human Kinetics, 2014-2017 – Managing Editor

Lindsey Gates-Markel

Senior Content Strategist

Lindsey helps teams realize their vision and reach their goals through thoughtful discovery work and content design. She likes asking questions and uncovering the narratives behind users’ perceptions and behaviors. She can break a website down into a content model faster than you can say “metadata.”

From 90s zine culture to an MFA in creative writing, Lindsey is a hands-on maker and reflective thinker. She met the job description for Pixo’s first-ever content strategist with a vision of her own, convincing us that content strategy and her years of acting and writing converged in one essential skill: empathy. 

EXPERTISE

Content strategy, interviews, discovery, content inventories, content modeling, synthesis & analysis, usability testing, writing for the web

EDUCATION

Lesley University – Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing

Monmouth College – Bachelor’s in Arts, English

EMPLOYMENT

Pixo, August 2020 – present: Senior Content Strategist

Pixo, April 2018 – August 2020: Lead Content Strategist

Pixo, 2015 – April 2018: Content Strategist

Girl Scouts of Central Illinois, 2012–2015: Grant and Technical Writer

Wolfram, 2010–2012: Copy Editor

Volition, 2008–2010: Receptionist

Lindsey Gates-Markel

Senior Content Strategist

Lindsey helps teams realize their vision and reach their goals through thoughtful discovery work and content design. She likes asking questions and uncovering the narratives behind users’ perceptions and behaviors. She can break a website down into a content model faster than you can say “metadata.”

From 90s zine culture to an MFA in creative writing, Lindsey is a hands-on maker and reflective thinker. She met the job description for Pixo’s first-ever content strategist with a vision of her own, convincing us that content strategy and her years of acting and writing converged in one essential skill: empathy. 

EXPERTISE

Content strategy, interviews, discovery, content inventories, content modeling, synthesis & analysis, usability testing, writing for the web

EDUCATION

Lesley University – Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing

Monmouth College – Bachelor’s in Arts, English

EMPLOYMENT

Pixo, August 2020 – present: Senior Content Strategist

Pixo, April 2018 – August 2020: Lead Content Strategist

Pixo, 2015 – April 2018: Content Strategist

Girl Scouts of Central Illinois, 2012–2015: Grant and Technical Writer

Wolfram, 2010–2012: Copy Editor

Volition, 2008–2010: Receptionist