Margot Merrill - Account and Project Management

"Margot Merrill is an absolute pleasure to work with. Past that, few understand that space between creative teams and client teams as well as she does. Margot handles these challenges with skill, diplomacy and great attention to driving top-quality creative work."

Mitch Pergola
General Manager, frog design

"I worked with Margot while at Rare Medium and frog design. She's intelligent, makes good decisions, and understands how to manage teams and how to drive projects to completion. She's got good all-round skills and, no less important, is one of the cooler peeps I know."

Raul Diaz, former director at
Rare Medium and frog design, currently at Method Design in San Francisco

"What I remember most about working with Margot is her perpetual smile."

Jon Guerra
former Creative Director at frog design, currently at Disney

"Margot relates well to everyone. She brings people and teams together to meet deadlines and get results. Her communication style is open, honest, and very direct- saving everyone on the project time and mental energy."

Kate Kessler, former client
i2 Technologies

"While director of strategy at frog design, I actively sought Margot's involvement in projects because of her keen ability to sort out complex issues and relationships, her instinct for quick and decisive action, and for the convivial nature that brought so much life to her teams.

She has a great talent for understanding a client's ambition and translating it to a pragmatic action plan to form the springboard for effective strategic and creative work."

Travis Culwell, former Director of Strategy
at frog design, currently at Stone Yamashita

"I worked with Margot while at Sun Microsystems, Inc. and found her to be great to work with. We worked closely together on a very large and complex project that spanned an entire year. Margot brought a lot of energy and enthusiasm to the team. She was very effective in her role, keeping a wide and diverse set of owners and stakeholders on the project involved and aware of progress while minimizing the delays due to conflicts or uncertainties. Her focus, attitude, communication skills, and attention to detail really stood out to me."

Jennifer Umstattd, former client
Product Marketing Manager, Developer Web
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

"Margot is, hands down, one of the most competent project managers I've ever worked with. Indeed, her client-relationship skills are top-notch, but importantly for someone in my role, she also possesses an impressive understanding of technology. Computers, browser discrepancies, programming languages and other technical procedures are not a mysterious void for Margot; rather, she can accurately forecast timelines and team resource requirements, while skirting common pitfalls that often mire tech projects. This is indeed a rare quality in a project manager, and as such, working with her on projects such as Web sites and application interfaces has been a pleasure.

Margot is a remarkably powerful asset to any creative team."

Robert Kissinger
Design Technology Manager, frog design

"I had the pleasure of working with Margot Merrill at Rare Medium and was deeply impressed by her intelligence, level of professionalism, and commitment to excellence. Her ability to effectively communicate, not only with the most technical of team members but also business stakeholders, demonstrates her attention to detail as well as her knack of understanding bigger-picture business goals.

When I worked with Margot as a Web Developer on a pivotal project with a leading international software corporation, she kept the internal team on target and in synch with the customer's team of developers. Margot consistently excels at keeping disparate groups on task towards a common goal, and I look forward to working with her again soon."

Jenny Han
Web developer, Kontiki Systems

"I was introduced to Margot during our developer portal redesign and consolidation project. As part of the Frog team Margot served as producer/project manager. The task of consolidating our portals was enormous and Margot was instrumental in helping us gain customer and stakeholder acceptance within Sun.

Margot ensures that projects execute well. She is intuitive, easy to talk with, and always sees the humorous side of our world. She is a person that I would want on my team and highly recommend."

Elaine B. Coleman, ph.d.
Senior Cognitive Scientist
Sun Microsystems Inc.

"Margot was my main point of contact at frog design for a project that my team owned at Napster (the original law-breaking, non-money-making one.) We engaged frog to help us redesign our core identity, update our web properties and rethink the design and interface for our Windows and Mac client applications.
This was no small task.
As we worked together to manage the expectations and schedules of what seemed like a thousand tiny dictators, bombs were constantly being lobbed at us.The media, board members and the courts kept our targets in constant motion and our sanity in short supply. Despite the mayhem, Margot kept the project on time and under budget and even managed to keep a smile on her face at pretty much every juncture."

Brandon Barber
former Director of Product Management, Napster, Inc. Currently Music Marketing Manager at Electronic Arts