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Ana Willem is the consummate professional. She has a deep knowledge of her field, is a tireless worker, loves to solve problems, and is great at customer service....I highly recommend Ana to anyone who wants to hire the best web technician available with the added ability to talk to non-techies in everyday language they can understand.
Alice Lovelace
Lead Staff Organizer
United States Social Forum
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Working with Ana was a great pleasure: her intelligence, rapid learning and appreciation of complex challenges coupled with her flexibility and creativity in approaching problem-solving were all a particular boon...
Nina Simons
President and Co-Founder
Bioneers
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Ana managed a $250,000 project from start to finish...Without Ana's knowledge of database structure we would not have completed this very large project on time.
Anthony J. Coca
Information Systems Director
Institute of American Indian Arts
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I have never known anyone more willing to work at any time, in any situation, to get the job done. She is persistent, but gentle, tenacious, but understanding of others who are less committed, and absolutely full of integrity.
Anita Beaty
Executive Director and Founder
Metro Atlanta Taskforce for the Homeless
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Ana was an excellent person to work with, providing expertise to a large group of people with a wide range of technological background and knowledge....I highly recommend Ana to any individual or organization looking for someone with commitment, creativity and expertise!
Christina Repoley
Peace Education Coordinator
American Friends Service Committee
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About jellobrain
People are meant to be creative. Computers were invented to do the boring work. Are the systems you are using simplifying your work, or complicating it?
What makes jellobrain extraordinary.
A broad knowledge of organizational infrastructures and technologies.
- Information Systems Mapping: information technologies, procedures and flows within a variety of different organizations, and technological systems integration.
- Databases: custom database design, development, implementation + reporting to form-fit the specific needs of an organization.
- Websites: broad and specific experience with different content management systems, Web 2.0, and website architecture and development strategies.
- Design: fresh and generative branding strategies, publications + website design.
Ability to understand organizational systems, and isolate their constituent parts..
- Although an organizations networks, databases, and employee moral seem separate from one another - viewed through the analytic lens of systems and sub-systems, patterns within an organization can be isolated that effect the entire apparatus of an organization.
- With access to the underlying patterns, a penetrating analysis and development of systems can produce results that fundamentally shift an organizations ability to effectively and efficiently perform.
Prioritizing positive, creative and generative thought.
- Positive change can require a neutral outlook. This does not mean that issues should be glossed over, but that the process of approaching issues is best served by understanding the system rather than attacking individual pieces of the system.
- When issues are approached from the view-point of systems rather than individuals, the collective will of an organization mobilizes together towards improving the way an organization functions.
- As a result, the insights of the collective can uniquely inform the development process in a way that satisfies the true needs of the whole.
Who is jellobrain?

Ana Willem (aka: jellobrain) is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design: Industrial Design where she studied industrial design specializing in sustainable systems design. She brings with her 8 years of experience with technology and information systems design and development, and 15 years of design experience.
While the different projects she undertakes are diverse, there is an underlying thread that ties them together. They each involve, in their own way, an understanding and reading of systems, and a subsequent deconstruction, diagnostics, and reformulation of those systems so that they better serve their purpose.
