About You

Let’s face it. This website isn’t about us. It’s about you and your multimedia needs. So here, in a nutshell, is what you need to know about our skills and experience and how they can help you.

Forrest Anderson, Technical Director and Photographer

Forrest specializes in developing robust user-friendly Expression Engine websites.
He has the following web skills:

  • Website design and framework
  • Project planning and management
  • Pixel-perfect psd > xhtml conversions
  • Web standards xhtml / css
  • Expression Engine integration
  • Installation, transfer, backup, upgrades
  • Third-party module integration
  • jQuery
  • Flash
  • Video and audio integration
  • Dependable, cheerful and provide timely support
  • Work by the project or the site
  • Web consulting
  • Design and build an average of six websites / year

Before co-founding Rouviere Media, he worked as a technical business liaison for Cisco Systems from 1999-2006, doing the following:

  • Web development – design and develop department website used for communication to worldwide sales team.
  • Project management
  • Plan and supervise the setup of six international sales offices in Shanghai, Seoul, Sydney, Mumbai, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur
  • Rollout of new enterprise CRM solutions: eSales, salesForce.com, Vantive
  • Rollout and support call monitoring and call statistics solutions
  • Supervise international team members in Europe and Asia
  • Application requirement and process documents
  • Application training and support – in conjunction with rollout of new software products

Before 1998, he worked for Time magazine as a photojournalist in Beijing, China, covering major international news and economic events and government leaders from around the world.

Donna Rouviere Anderson, Creative Director

Donna has a background as a web, graphic and interaction designer, writer/international journalist and historian.
She has the following skills:

  • Web and graphic design
  • Interaction design for websites
  • Project management for websites
  • Writing for the web and print
  • Photo editing, retouching and enhancing
  • Book writing, layout and editing
  • Historical writing

She is proficient in Illustrator CS5, Photoshop CS5 and InDesign CS5 in addition to Microsoft Word, Omnigraffle, Omniplan and OmniOutliner.

She is the author or co-author of three historical books and is in the process of finishing two more.

Prior to co-founding Rouviere Media, Donna ran her own historical photo retouching and research company, Ancestor Images, while getting a master’s degree in public history at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Before 1998, she worked as an international journalist in Beijing, China, for a variety of leading publications, including the Associated Press, Time magazine, the London Times, the Toronto Globe and Mail and the Los Angeles Times. She also managed Forrest’s photo operations, researching and organizing hundreds of international photo assignments.

Both Forrest and Donna speak fluent Mandarin Chinese and are experienced at working in an international setting.