talent

we are a small team of highly creative, strategic technology entrepreneurs with decades of executive management, development and digital media experience. we are proud of our strong track record of achievements on the internet, web and in other technology-based businesses.


todd carter
co-founder/ceo

todd heads up the team bringing his experience as an accomplished entrepreneur, team leader, digital media expert and innovator.  todd has a talent and passion for technology and thrives on building businesses that leverage technology to entertain, increase efficiency, and solve problems.

todd has pioneered integrated solutions combining content-based multimedia, search retrieval and electronic commerce to enable secure and immediate purchase and download of digital media. product development/strategy, ecommerce, professional and consumer imaging business & technology, digital media search, internet marketing, software as service (saas), digital asset management, executive management, business development, key account management and raising capital.

president & co-founder of OWL Multimedia, Inc. a music search company and co-founder/cto of busybox, “BUSY” a publicly traded technology company. a member of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 (MPEG) which develops international standards for audio-visual information representation.

todd is also an avid XC skier and road cyclist and is a director of think racing and team today, 501 (c)(3) charitable organizations that promote and develop amateur athletes for national for national and international competition.


Sharon Middenddorf

sharon middendorf
co-founder/operations

sharon is the organizer & business manager for tocarte, llc. she is super detailed oriented, a great multi-tasker and is as business savvy as they come. a perfect compliment to todd in life and business.

sharon is the kind of person who when she says your project will be done by the 1st of the month you know it will be. not only will it be delivered on time but more than likely under budget. sharon thrives on entrepreneurial creativity, everything from business & project management to web and brand design/development.

sharon has also been an international professional model and musician traveling and recording extensively throughout the world. to listen to her music please visit iTunes.com


Apri Mardirossian
arpi mardirossian director of product development

arpi holds a PhD from the daniel j. epstein dept. of industrial and systems engineering at the USC viterib school of engineering. She also holds a B.A. degree from occidental college, double majored in mathematics and economics and has an m.s. degree in operations research engineering.

she is also an artist and believes that mathematical truths and theories can be used to either symbolically represent or explain our world. she enjoys painting, her husband and baby daughter.



frank geshwind PhD advisor/technology architect

frank has worked as a technology leader with the tocarte team for a number of years and continues to do so in his role as manager and technical lead at partner company shoreline tech. he is a serial entrepreneur and an expert in the design, construction and deployment of high-performance internet, software and technology products and services, security, web and it infrastructure, advanced mathematics, computer science, engineering and intellectual property. he holds a B.A. and PhD in Mathematics from CUNY..

gigs

we’re constantly looking for cool, talented people to add to our team and culture. think you got the chops? then please send us your resume, video and oh, we love photos too!