ohso! design has been successfully helping small and medium-sized businesses in Long Beach, Orange County and Los Angeles since 2004 and is proud to have been designated a woman-owned small business enterprise by the State of California.

ohso! design believes in efficiency and cost savings through proven methods that have been developed by our quality people.

Best-of-breed doesn’t need to bleed your capital. Our award-winning team members have worked together on a variety of projects, constantly honing our skill sets and delivering stellar results.

Olga Mizrahi, MBA :: Principal

• Strategic and creative thinker who knows what to keep “inside the box”
• Orchestrates projects from concept to completion

Olga Mizrahi brings her understanding of brand development and communications to the ohso! team. She has effectively been the maestro of online and print campaigns across various types of media over the past 15 years.

Before starting ohso! design in 2004, Olga managed a team of creative talent and technical professionals. She was accountable for lean operations and profit goals in the direct marketing industry. She is also a former web design instructor at UCI, Extension and Coastline Community College.

Olga also has a strong commitment to women in the community. She served on the board of directors for Women In Business Los Angeles and currently sits on the Women’s Business Council for the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce.

Olga earned her Master’s of Business Administration degree from Pepperdine University and finished undergraduate study at UC Irvine.

And forget about that played “snowboarding web designer” cliché. Olga prefers to be stereotyped as a “skiing web designer.” Her passions include art glass and mountain biking…that is, when she’s not busy writing on her business blog, Chunk of Change.

Jamie Ponchak :: Sr. Designer

• Award winning creative
• More than 12 years of design experience

Jamie’s unique ability to balance truly fresh creative with businesses’ needs for results makes her a rare bird in the design industry. Her creative approach not only earned her an award and top scores for “Most Effective Ad” in a Signet ad effects study, but resulted in meeting a client’s business goal of motivating a sales force to spring into action.

Jamie and Olga discuss daily how to bring in best-in-class design, while keeping usability in check. They start from the ground and build up, helping each client create a unique look for the web and/or print. Jamie loves presentation and getting people excited about their business. She lives for the “wow” moment, when the client sees–and loves—the end result.

Jamie earned her creative stripes at several advertising agencies before joining ohso! design and has her BA in Fine Art from Cal State Long Beach.

When pulled away from her 30” Mac screen, you’ll find Jamie on the soccer field or corralling her 4-year-old daughter and infant son.

Jim Hanson :: Sr. Programmer

• Expert in site conversion to web standards and CSS–based presentation
• Highly experienced with PHP- and javascript-driven solutions

Jim would rather be left alone, thank you. With your website, that is. Using his powerhouse knowledge of Cascading Style Sheets, WordPress, Magento, javascript, databases and coding, Jim takes planning, design and organization of web interfaces to a higher level.

Creatives hand him design files, and he creates clear-to-implement templates and the CSS to support them. He’s passionate about building web sites that are accessible, easy to navigate and fast. See for yourself, view the source. Check out some of ohso! design’s Jim influenced conversions: www.promedicacme.com and www.roverrescue.com.  Then, you’ll know why we call him Mr. Clean. When allowed in public, Jim plays a mean bass guitar.

Kara Stewart :: Inbound Marketing Specialist

• Social Media maven that can break it down into digestible chunks

Websites  that are easy to find and bring visitors back again and again require fresh content. Kara helps businesses organize their content and come up with a plan to create new content on a regular basis to be distributed on blogs, e-mail and through social media channels.  She specializes in marketing for the technology channel, but also has a passion for helping ohso! design’s family of clients discover their inner publishing house.

Susan Jacobs:: Writer

• Expert wordsmith
• More than 20 years of writing and editing experience

Susan Jacobs has been a writer, editor and web editor for more than 20 years. In her previous life, she managed groups of reporters in the late, great newspaper industry (RIP) covering everything from health and science to the entertainment industry.

Susan joined ohso! design because she’s multilingual – she speaks more than copy and text. Years of steering design projects for print publications as an editor has honed her flair for color, visuals and photography. But her first love remains the well-crafted word. Without strong, captivating content to touch the reader’s emotions, nothing else matters.

She loves independent films, reading, singing and hanging out with her too-cute-for words poodle, Kingston.