Richard Zimmer is the founder of Long Island, New York's [zdi design group]. His award-winning work encompasses the television, feature film, advertising, design, commercial advertising, identity branding, and online media. One of the first...
Kevin Bulger
Lead Designer
Kevin Bulger studied Fine Arts at the State University of New York at New Paltz with a focus on painting and illustration before developing an interest in design. While pursuing a design degree he worked as a video editor for Long Island-based...
Kevin Schissel
Designer/Project & Production Manager
Before coming to [zdi], Kevin Schissel was a freelance graphic designer for over three years while attending school. His love for music led him to his career in design, having done extensive work for entertainment and music ...
Derek Miranda
Chief Technology Officer
Derek Miranda has been writing code for consumer and enterprise-level applications for over 20 years. Derek currently writes software that controls fiber optic transmission products digitally transmit and encrypt 3G-HD Video, Audio and data bi-directionally...
Marc Lefton
Digital Strategy Director
Marc Lefton has 18 years of experience ranging from traditional advertising at NYC based top agencies such as BBDO, working on Fortune 100 brands. An early adopter of the Internet, Marc has been a leader in the industry, building the first social...
Richard Zimmer is the founder of [zdi design group]. His award-winning work encompasses the television, feature film, advertising, design, commercial advertising, identity branding, and online media.
One of the first graduates of the Computer Art department at the School of Visual Arts, Rich's career began working for film poster design agencies, as well as stock photo agencies and design studios before founding [zdi].
A veteran of print, digital and motion graphics, you can often see Rich's work when you're home watching the latest network shows on Television.
Kevin Bulger studied Fine Arts at the SUNY at New Paltz with a focus on painting and illustration before developing an interest in design. While pursuing a design degree he worked as a video editor for Long Island-based Arthouse Video. Since graduating with an A.A. in Commercial Art in 2002, he has used his wide range of skills working in the Long Island and NYC based [zdi] Design Group as a graphic designer, illustrator, web designer, flash developer, video editor, among other positions related to design. He has continued is education in the field while attending the School of Visual Arts in NYC.
Before coming to [zdi], Kevin Schissel was a freelance graphic designer for over three years while attending school. His love for music led him to his career in design, having done extensive work for entertainment and music clients. He has extensive travel experience, having toured the entire country multiple times as well as Europe.
At [zdi], Kevin works with clients on a day to day basis, creating production schedules, setting appointments and facilitating every phase in the development process. His ability to conceptualize innovative solutions to any problem is invaluable to the company. His enthusiasm and drive and positive attitude is contagious!
Derek Miranda has been writing code for consumer and enterprise-level applications for over 20 years. Derek currently writes software that controls fiber optic transmission products digitally transmit and encrypt 3G-HD Video, Audio and data bi-directionally over one or more fiber optic cores. Software written for these products includes desktop-based interfaces, web-based control interfaces and low-level, Xylinx chip controllers blah blah blah you don't understand this anyway. In a nutshell, this is total overkill and using him to develop your website in most cases is like using a bazooka to swat a fly. But it's good to have him around, in case you have a truly unique challenge.
Marc Lefton has 18 years of experience ranging from traditional advertising at NYC based top agencies such as BBDO, working on Fortune 100 brands. An early adopter of the Internet, Marc has been a leader in the industry, building the first social network for advertising professions and advising tech startups so he's always on the bleeding edge of new technology to offer clients. He spent 5 years as the experiential marketing/word of mouth creative director on brands like Coke Zero, Simply Orange, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Starwood Hotels, Samsung and many other large brands before joining ZDI three years ago and leading the agency's digital strategy department.
