The Morale and Culture Committee is pleased to announce Azenith Salenga as the most nominated employee of the quarter for Mad Props.

Azenith Salenga, or as we like to call her “Zee”, is Red Door Interactive’s Junior Designer. Her day-to-day tasks include designing emails, banners, and subpages for clients like Souplantation & Sweet Tomatoes, Cricket, California Avocados, and PETCO. She is the go-to person for any immediate creative requests and she always gets the job done well. Zee is quick, efficient, and has outstanding attention to detail.

Zee represents our Core Values by exceeding expectations. When the creative team gets busy, Zee helps relieve the pressure and stress with her positive attitude and willingness to take on extra work. She is always offering her help, even if that means staying an hour late. In addition, Zee continually pleases clients, such as New Leaders for New Schools, with her design work and we all see her growing immensely in the process.

What is Mad Props?

Mad Props is a peer recognition program at Red Door where employees can nominate a fellow co-worker who represents one or more of Red Door’s Core Values. The employee with the most nominations each quarter is awarded an extra paid day off for his or her hard work.

Find out more about Mad Props.

The Morale and Culture Committee is pleased to announce Maggie Francisco as the most nominated employee of the quarter for Mad Props.

Maggie Francisco is Red Door Interactive’s Operations Coordinator. She is the first person who greets you when you enter or call the Denver office, and she’s one of the first people new hires meet when starting a job at Red Door. In the past three months, Maggie has coordinated numerous events such as the Denver Speaker Series, a company go-kart racing day (a reward for meeting our Q1 goal), and a Morale Committee “make your own” sandwich lunch to celebrate the launch of the Milton’s and California Avocado Commission Websites. Maggie also successfully tackled issues relating to the new IT infrastructure in Denver and went above and beyond to ensure a smooth and personalized open enrollment process for the company’s new health benefit options.

Maggie represents the Red Door Interactive Core Values by inspiring others to take the extra step needed in order to solve problems quickly and efficiently. Maggie continues to exceed expectations and help others—always with a positive attitude.  She is 100% jerk free and brings a smile to our faces each day.

What is Mad Props?

Mad Props is a peer recognition program at Red Door where employees can nominate a fellow co-worker who represents one or more of Red Door’s Core Values. The employee with the most nominations each quarter is awarded an extra paid day off for his or her hard work.

Find out more about Mad Props.

Red Door is proud to announce a great start to the 2010 award season. In the last week, we have won three IAC Awards and one ADDY Award. More information about each award and project is listed below. Click each entry title to read more about the project goals and achievements. Congrats to the entire Red Door team for making these projects a success.

IAC Awards

Red Door took home three “Best” awards at the 2010 Web Marketing Association’s Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) for clients Cricket and Cox Communications.

Cricket Evoke
Best Telecommunication Mobile application

Cricket Site Redesign
Best Telecommunication Website

Cox HD Rich Media Ad
Best Internet Service Provider Rich media Online ad

San Diego ADDY Awards

At last Friday’s San Diego ADDYs Creative Show Gala, Red Door was awarded a Silver ADDY for client Rubio’s Fresh Mexican Grill.

Rubio’s and Dr Pepper Social Media campaign
Silver Award – Web/Online Campaign

All of our past awards are available on our Red Door Awards page.
View the Press Release for more information.

The Morale and Culture Committee is pleased to announce Ron Hadler as the most nominated employee of the quarter for Mad Props.

Ron Hadler is Red Door Interactive’s Technology Supervisor. His role at Red Door includes managing a team of Web Developers and ensuring technical development runs smoothly. During the last few months, Ron has proved to be a huge asset to the Garden Fresh project team. He successfully launched the new Souplantation & Sweet Tomatoes Website including a new and improved gift card shopping cart. Ron devoted many late nights and weekends to guarantee the launch would be seamless. Ron’s teammates have recognized his dedication to this project and continuously praise him for a job well done.

Ron represents our Core Values by remaining 100% jerk free and inspiring others on his team. He’s been referred to as a rockstar, and if you see the new Souplantation & Sweet Tomatoes Website, I am sure you will agree.

What is Mad Props?

Mad Props is a peer recognition program at Red Door where employees can nominate a fellow co-worker who represents one or more of Red Door’s Core Values. The employee with the most nominations each quarter is awarded an extra paid day off for his or her hard work.

Find out more about Mad Props.

The Morale and Culture Committee is pleased to announce Lindsay Estrada as the most nominated employee of the quarter for Mad Props.

Lindsay is a Senior Project Manager at Red Door Interactive. During the last few months, she has received well-deserved props for leading the Cricket Communications Website redesign project team. Lindsay brought the team of strategists, creatives, and developers together with daily collaborative meetings to keep the team on track. And by introducing agile development methodology to the process, it lead to increased flexibility and communication throughout the entire project.

Lindsay represents Red Door’s Core Values by showing passion and pride in the work of the team. She’s very encouraging and supportive which keeps the team focused with the end goal in mind. Lindsay’s passion shows in the new Cricket Website, which launched in November—just in time for holiday shopping.

What is Mad Props?

Mad Props is a peer recognition program at Red Door where employees can nominate a fellow co-worker who represents one or more of Red Door’s Core Values. The employee with the most nominations each quarter is awarded an extra paid day off for his or her hard work.

Find out more about Mad Props

The Morale and Culture Committee is pleased to announce Lindsay Estrada as the most nominated employee of the quarter for Mad Props.

Lindsay is a Senior Project Manager at Red Door Interactive. During the last few months, she has received well-deserved props for leading the Cricket Communications Website redesign project team. Lindsay brought the team of strategists, creatives, and developers together with daily collaborative meetings to keep the team on track. And by introducing agile development methodology to the process, it lead to increased flexibility and communication throughout the entire project.

Lindsay represents Red Door’s Core Values by showing passion and pride in the work of the team. She’s very encouraging and supportive which keeps the team focused with the end goal in mind. Lindsay’s passion shows in the new Cricket Website, which launched in November—just in time for holiday shopping.

What is Mad Props?

Mad Props is a peer recognition program at Red Door where employees can nominate a fellow co-worker who represents one or more of Red Door’s Core Values. The employee with the most nominations each quarter is awarded an extra paid day off for his or her hard work.

Find out more about Mad Props

Being recognized as one of the best places to work in San Diego has a lot to do with the amazing people who work here. We are extremely passionate about our work and embrace a number of “Core Values.” To recognize dedicated individuals who go above and beyond we developed a program called “Mad Props.”

“Mad Props” was created and implemented by Red Door’s “Morale and Culture Committee” back in 2006. It lives on the home page of our intranet and gives employees the opportunity to nominate their peers whom they feel embody the company’s core values. A nomination lives on the home page for 2 weeks and includes his or her picture, description of what was done to receive the nomination, and how it relates to our core values.

In addition to individual nominations, the employee who has accumulated the most nods each quarter gets an extra day of PTO (Paid Time Off) to use whenever they like! We announce the winner at the end of the quarter in a public fashion by ringing our celebratory bell (definitely gets people’s attention) in the office and congratulating that individual.

With that being said…..we would like to congratulate Kim Weinstein for being the most nominated employee of the quarter!!!

Kim is Red Door’s Online Acquisition Coordinator and has been with the company since last November. Some of Kim’s “Mad Props” include preparing last minute presentations, demonstrating expertise in PPC campaigns, and providing excellent customer service. She consistently demonstrates many of the Red Door core values such as “Goal-oriented Multi-disciplinary Collaboration” and “Treating customers like they’re at The Ritz.”

We look forward to sharing more of these announcements to showcase the hard work and dedication behind the team at Red Door Interactive.

With opening day being less then two weeks away, the Padres’ downtown San Diego Stadium, PETCO Park, is buzzing with excitement. Being PETCO’s next-door neighbor, all of us in the office are looking forward to baseball season.

To kick off the season, Red Door’s Morale and Culture Committee planed a behind the scenes tour of the stadium. Inspirational outings are held quarterly to encourage employees to get out of the office and experience some of San Diego’s culture. We met at PETCO Park during our lunch hour and joined tourists from around the country to get a taste of the Padres experience.

Red Door employees (Will, Brian, Michelle, Robin and Brooks) enjoying the tour.

Our tour guide took us all around the park, from the season ticket holders’ private boxes and the press room (aka the best view in the house) to the Padres field and dugout. We even got to tour the exclusive Clubhouse and locker room. We learned many interesting facts about the Padres such as if it wasn’t for McDonalds, and Ray Kroc, San Diego would not have a team at all. And because of the stadium, East Village has blossomed into what it is today…a booming destination for people from around the globe.

The view of the park and Red Door Interactive’s office from home plate.

So, come stop by Red Door Interactive on game day for our 11th floor view into the outfield. We are located in the DiamondView Towers, which is the blue and gray Comerica building you see out to the right while watching a game. Speaking of DiamondView, one of our favorite facts we learned on the tour is that DiamondView Towers is “just an attachment” to the historical brick building known as the Showely Bros. Candy Factory (which was restored and moved 280 feet during the construction of PETCO Park).

See more images from the tour on Flickr.

What better way to spend St. Patrick’s Day in the office then a Pot-o’-Luck! The Morale and Culture committee asked coworkers to “bring something green, something Irish, something rainbow, or whatever tickles your fancy.” The lunchtime potluck was a success and showed off the talented chefs we have at Red Door. From corned beef sandwiches to Irish meatballs to cupcakes galore, we were all able to get into the festivities. Even half the office showed up wearing green. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

What better way to spend St. Patrick’s Day in the office then a Pot-o’-Luck! The Morale and Culture committee asked coworkers to “bring something green, something Irish, something rainbow, or whatever tickles your fancy.” The lunchtime potluck was a success and showed off the talented chefs we have at Red Door. From corned beef sandwiches to Irish meatballs to cupcakes galore, we were all able to get into the festivities. Even half the office showed up wearing green. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!