Our Team

 

Justin McMakin

CEO and Creative

Communications Director

You may have seen Justin W McMakin speaking in front of an intrigued audience live in person or online when he’s not in front of a computer or directing a creative production team. Justin started drawing when he was 7 years old and that evolved into his first entrepreneurial venture at 12 years of age; selling hand drawn portraits while he attended half-day special arts programs throughout school.

Within his first year at George Brown College for Advertising and Design he founded Spherecore Inc. Advertising & Design. He retired that business, after seven intense years, seeking more than the 80 hour advertising agency working week. He took on the CEO and Project Manager role with PCBD Corporation. There he led the development of ThirtyMinuteWebsites.com, a proprietary do-it-yourself online website software and Full Media Center, a one-stop-shop creative media production studio.

Justin has worked with clients such as WSP International, which led to Hershey’s, McCain’s, Sobey’s Canada, POGO and now Bob Proctor’s various projects. Justin has personally produced over 100 brands for companies, products and services. He’s said “I love taking an idea and turning it into a brand that looks like it’s been established for a decade.” He has an accomplished background in fine art, graphic design, marketing, advertising and web mastery.

With 14 years of experience in the creative communications industry and a track record of helping over 100 brands communicate successfully Justin has grown to be a very helpful facilitator at meetings, team developer, project manager and creative director in the production studio. He prides himself on seeing clients happy with solutions that truly suite their business and exceeds their goals.

You are more than welcome to visit the Full Media Center and share your vision with Justin.

 

 

Christopher Robitaille

Senior Graphic Designer

& Art Director

It takes more than passion and dedication to achieve what Chris has in the last five years. He went from hand illustrating urban style designs bridging on graffiti to mastering the latest Adobe design software through practice and a little mentoring from his friend and business partner Justin McMakin.

Chris is now the Art Director for the Full Media Center design department and is serving is purpose on a daily basis. Check out our portfolio to see his design in action. Whether it be a Website Design, print collateral or Animation production, we are proud to have Chris producing high quality graphics and design.

His style and memorable creativity empowers our entire team to produce an even higher level of creative presentations. This French Canadian is a true pleasure to work with.

 

 

Tom Mowet

Post & Video Production Manager

Tom is our post production Manager here at Avtel. He is originally from Ottawa, Ont and a graduate from Algonquin Collage in the Television Broadcasting program.

Tom gained a lot of experience from his time at Rogers Television in Ottawa working on various live events and studio programming. He has been working in the industry for 11 years now and has seen a great transition in that time. Tom has a great attention to detail and a desire for client satisfaction.

He has worked on a wide range of projects with a extensive list of clients. Whether he is working on a small television commercial or building elaborate live event support media, Tom is always up for the challenge. He thrives on creating compelling visual stories and elements through all his projects.

From VHS to DVD and now blu-ray Tom has seen all formats through the years and is happy to answers any questions you might have.

 

 

 

Gigi Wong

Jr. Web Designer

Dave Robinet

Photographer

Daniel Roberts

Sound Engineer