REFERENCES

Kevin Smith - Principal Web User Experience Consultant

October 18, 2018, Mike worked with Kevin in the same group

"Mike brings deep and solid design experience to any project - case in point— he was pivotal in designing portals Safeco.com for customers and Safeconow for agents who sell Safeco products. In addition he has designed many online tools and built frameworks for presenting content. With graphics and illustration skills, he also excelled at marketing efforts... plus he’s a really nice guy."

Aaron Kraemer - Web Operations Manager for Consumer and Agent Sites at Safeco Insurance

December 16, 2017, Aaron managed Mike directly

"Mike reported to me for many years at Safeco Insurance/Liberty Mutual Insurance. I really enjoyed working with Mike. He was very good at maintaining the brand's look and feel across all the materials he designed and brought a thoughtful eye to everything he designed. One of the things I especially appreciated was Mike's thoroughness. I knew that whatever project he worked on he would follow it through from beginning to end. For example, in our A/B testing program he would design the options to be tested, create red lines for the developers and then do in-depth QA of the tests to ensure that everything was spot on. I would definitely recommend Mike as a designer."

Mike Helms - Product Manager Web Development

December 18, 2017, Mike was senior to Mike but didn't manage directly

"I’ve had the pleasure of working with Mike for several years now. During that time, our interaction primarily centered around operations and enhancements to an extranet responsible for over $6B/year in revenue.

Mike produced comps and final design assets for desktop and mobile applications. He also handled the entire ad publishing process for our most used site. This involved not only the design and publishing of ad artwork, but also negotiating with stakeholders to ensure the right message was making to our users and the highest value ads got the appropriate site real estate. His dedication to owning this process and being accountable was a great service to our customers...and made my life a lot easier!

Besides his technical and artistic skills, something I really appreciate about Mike is his friendliness and sense of humor. He’s a friend to the folks on his team, business partners, and development team members. It’s always fun interacting with him. In fact, it is very rare that I have a conversation and we both don’t leave laughing :)"

Tino Cecilio - Marketing, Project Management, Web Production

December 14, 2017, Tino was senior to Mike but didn't manage directly

"I can honestly say that it is a pleasure and delight to work with Mike Winterbauer. He is our go-to man for producing page layouts, production graphics and visual treatments for the daily maintenance requests to our current Safeco Now website. Mike approaches the work at hand with a meticulous eye to detail, a bulldog tenacity for solving problems, and a ceaseless passion for doing the job right.

Chief among his strengths is his methodical and logical approach to each project. Mike is very often juggling multiple tasks at the same time and I can always count on him to keep track of all the tiny details. He maintains a can-do attitude for all our work together and I have never seen him miss a deadline.

Having been with Safeco for so many years, Mike holds a great deal of tribal knowledge which frequently comes in quite handy for perspective. He is the keeper of the historical files and he also maintains the image library of stock images for both Liberty Mutual and Safeco Now web projects which has proven to be very helpful to my team.

Mike is a team player and interfaces seamlessly with clients, stakeholders and other contributors who are working on the same project and he is always willing to engage and collaborate."

Kelly Lavin-Potter - Owner, KLP Marketing

December 15, 2017, Kelly worked with Mike in different groups

"Mike is a key success factor to any team he's on. He's always willing to go the extra mile to ensure success. Even with the most difficult timelines, Mike does what it takes to ensure a project is delivered or I should say published on time and in top quality. Over the last several years, it has been a pleasure working with Mike - he greets you with a smile, gets down to business and gets the work done while interjected some fun along the way to help mitigate the stress factor. Mike's work has been crucial in our ability to publish and promote key marketing programs for our customers. He's a go-to player that you can completely rely on to get a job done and done right. Definitely a team player with a strong work ethic - an asset to any team. Thanks for all you do Mike!"

Stacie Cooper - Helping independent insurance agencies prosper via robust digital presences

December 15, 2017, Stacie worked with Mike in different groups

"I've worked with Mike at Safeco Insurance for 5 years. I've been in the marketing field working with graphic designers for over 10 years and have to say, Mike is one of the best. He has a unique ability to take brief bullet points and messaging and bring them to life with amazing visuals and CTAs. I've always appreciated Mike's flexibility and acceptance of endless modifications to make an entire team happy. Mike delivers an exceptional product that performs and in a very timely manner, every time!"