About RTI and its founder Gawain Reifsnyder

I started Round Table Interactive in 1995 when a computer graphics and web design hobby suddenly veered out of control.

At the time, I was a professional guitarist on tour with the eight time Grammy winning vocal group Take 6. The World Wide Web was just starting to enter the public conciousness. I was fascinated by the possibilities and soon I found myself making the jump from high-tech guitar to high-tech New Media.

I began running a very popular guitar-oriented web site called Guitar.net and working on other music instructional multimedia projects using QuickTime video and Macromedia Director.

One thing led to another and pretty soon I found myself developing a variety of CD-ROM based multimedia projects. Some of the early highlights were my work with New Order Media, creating interactive training courses used by nurses around the country. Later I worked with Wycliffe Bible Translators on a touch-screen kiosk that traveled around the country educating people on the needs and opportunities for Bible translation and support around the world.

I then worked with Ron Krueger to develop the second generation of the Kid City kiosk—A large touch screen unit that was a semi-permanent fixture in over 300 retail music outlets in the US and began a long working relationship with the folks at interlínc, one of my main clients to this day.

Since then things have just gotten more interesting. I now spend most of my time developing web content management systems rather than CD-ROMs but so much of what I learned ”back in the day“ about object oriented design now applies to web based projects as well.

The rise of dynamic web technologies like PHP, Flash and Ajax have made that ever more true in the last couple of years and I'm excited to be using these tools to create powerful interactive applications for RTI's clients and their customers.

—Gawain Reifsnyder, August 2006