Our Team

Our team excels in interface design & development, information architecture, project management, online & offline media, and branding capabilities. Our application development solutions provide clients with custom built tools for content management, commerce, and online advertising. In addition to proficiency in several competencies, our team has a wealth of experience in IT solution management consulting.

Rick Breslin
Sr. Principal Consultant, Co-Founder

Rick serves as Principal of the Drive Thru Designs Tucson and Modesto offices, where he oversees the delivery of all consulting services to clients in the western United States. Rick is responsible for developing an in-depth understanding of a client's technology infrastructure and successfully linking DTD solutions with their strategic business requirements, and managing the successful implementation of those solutions based upon project goals and deliverables while ensuring the highest degree of client/partner satisfaction.

Rick has been designing and developing custom web solutions since 1996, and has extensive experience in user interface design as well as usability and quality assurance testing for cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility. Additionally, Rick provides site architecture development including ASP and VBscript programming, SQL, CSS, HTML, and Javascript. Prior to co-founding Drive Thru Designs, Inc., Rick worked as a consultant within the Technology Solutions Group of Nextera Enterprises in Boston, MA.

As an independent consultant, Rick has established branding initiatives for several small businesses, and led the inception, development and deployment of many successful Internet ventures. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Merrimack College, with substantial course work in computer science and fine arts. Furthermore, he has presented at a variety of seminars and workshops that assist companies with establishing an effective online presence.

Eric Palson
Sr. Principal Consultant, Co-Founder

Eric serves as managing principal of the DTD Boston office, where he oversees all consulting and services delivery to clients in the northeastern United States. He works with clients and DTD consultants in new business development, establishing approach and solution definition, providing the appropriate resources to deliver the desired client results. In addition, Eric manages our undergraduate internship staff and oversees their assigned projects and progress.

Eric has been working professionally as graphic designer and consultant since 1996. He has extensive experience in User Interface design, print design, HTML, JavaScript, marketing, and advertising. Prior to co-founding Drive Thru Designs, Eric worked as a consultant specializing in front end design and project management for Nextera's Technology Solutions Group in Boston, MA.

Eric has also worked as a multimedia instructor, applications engineer, and web designer at Babson College as well as Emerson College, where he is currently a part-time faculty member. He is one of the founding members of the successful design company, Palson Designs, where he helped to establish a brand for a number of start-up businesses. He has worked as a consultant, designer and developer for Palson Designs interacting with usability engineers, marketing directors and CEOs. Eric received a bachelor of arts degree in advertising and graphic design from Loyola College in Maryland. He has studied web and graphic design extensively. His postgraduate studies include problem solving, software design and media theory at Babson and Emerson College.