Another classic Delaware Valley summer has come to Azavea’s offices in Philadelphia. Amid the sunny days and sticky air, Philly is once again teeming with eager student interns and recent college graduates.  We’re happy to announce three such recent additions to our team on 12th Street.

Michael Tedeschi joined Azavea in May as a Web and Graphic Designer after graduating with honors from the University of the Arts with a bachelor’s in Graphic Design.  He works with the marketing team to create promotional collateral for conferences, and advertising, as well as the software development teams to design, implement, and enhance user interfaces for our projects and client applications.

He previously worked with Night Kitchen Interactive on digital projects for cultural and educational institutions, including the San Francisco Museum of Art and Penn Museum of Archeology and Anthropology.  In addition, he works as a freelance designer on projects for local and national organizations, including the National Association of Federal Credit Unions and Rope-a-Dope, a Philadelphia-based music and culture organization.

A fan of everything design, Mike is always exploring new ways to grow as a designer.  In his spare time, he spends many sleepless nights on personal design projects, enjoying a good meal (with a great beer), and learning new technology.

Andrew Thompson also joined Azavea in May as a Marketing Intern.  He works with the marketing and business development teams by writing website copy, blog entries and other marketing materials, as well as helping out with whatever else needs to get done.  A native of Massachusetts, in past summers he worked as a software testing intern for Axeda Corporation, where he performed user interface accessibility testing on Axeda’s internet applications.

Andrew is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree at Haverford College in Growth and Structure of Cities, with a minor in Computer Science.  At Haverford, he has worked as reporter, editor, and webmaster for his college newspaper, The Bi-College News, where he deftly tackled every systems administrator’s nightmare: a sudden and irrecoverable failure of the newspaper’s main server.

Outside of Azavea, you might find Andrew writing for fun, working with his beloved newspaper and college computing club, exploring Philadelphia (or any other city close at hand), fantasizing about travel, or virtually experiencing it through ham radio.

Daniel McGlone joined Azavea at the beginning of June as a GIS Analyst Intern.  He works with both the spatial analysis and the Cicero teams, supporting cartography and analysis projects as well as Cicero research and data entry.

Daniel graduated from Harrisburg University with a bachelor’s in GIS last year, and is currently pursuing his Master’s degree in Urban Spatial Analytics at the University of Pennsylvania.  Particularly interested in transportation planning, for his graduate research Daniel  is looking into demographic and economic changes near public transit stations in the Philadelphia area.

Before coming to Azavea, he was a GIS intern at the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, where he scooped up as many transit related tasks as possible and participated in the DVRPC’s Regional Student Forum.

In his free time you can find Daniel boasting and bragging about Philadelphia, biking the Schuylkill River Trail, exploring the city’s up-and-coming neighborhoods, or absorbing city life at Rittenhouse Square.