About Us

Our Team

Our team is led by two brothers with a passion for web-based technology. Located in both the United States and Canada, the very core of our business relies on the communication and collaboration made possible by the web.

Jerod Venema, COO and Co-Founder

Jerod is the face of the company, responsible for maintaining the day-to-day operations and long-term vision for Frozen Mountain. His knowledge of web applications and the software development lifecycle is only surpassed by his passion for customer care.

Before joining Frozen Mountain, Jerod worked as a senior project manager, senior software developer, and application architect for a variety of companies including DuPont, Siemens, and Prosperity Software Solutions. Jerod has been active in the open-source development community for several years, contributing to projects such as script.aculo.us, Prototype, the Dojo Toolkit, and Raphaël JS. He holds two engineering degrees from North Carolina State University. With over 11 years in the field, Jerod's knowledge and experience are invaluable in guiding the direction of the company.

Anton Venema, CTO and Co-Founder

As the technical visionary, Anton is responsible for ensuring that Frozen Mountain's products and services exceed the needs of today and predict the needs of tomorrow. His technological intuition, vast knowledge base, and extensive academic background provide a strong foundation upon which Frozen Mountain's innovation can thrive.

Anton joined Frozen Mountain after many years of working as a freelance technical consultant for numerous companies, including Siemens and the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology and Science. His professional career in developing web-based applications started in high school before any formal training. He now holds a joint degree in Computing Science and Linguistics, with a focus in statistical algorithms and computational linguistics. After working in the field for over 7 years, Anton has the expertise necessary to guide a company on the forefront of emerging technologies.

Our Company

Frozen Mountain is an experienced provider of innovative solutions to common business problems using the latest in web technology. We enable customers to stay on the forefront of web-based innovation, while minimizing their risk and development costs. We offer an assortment of products, services, and domain expertise, from pre-built software packages to hosted services to customized application development.

We develop our products with an "ear-to-the-ground" approach to ensure that we are providing solutions that are relevant and effective in meeting the business needs of an evolving web environment. We work very closely with our clients, helping them to establish an understanding of their own needs and how their requirements can be realized in a modern web-oriented architecture (WOA). This approach simultaneously gives users the rich internet experience they have come to demand and provides clients with a maintainable, extensible, and therefore cost-effective, solution.

Our Values

We are committed to building and maintaining trustworthy relationships with our partners, colleagues, and customers, as well as keeping an active presence in the wider development community. Our employees are encouraged to contribute to open source projects related to our areas of expertise. The community is a part of our family, and we want to treat it that way.

Frozen Mountain was established in the latter half of 2008 by a group of investors and leading experts in the field of web development.

It's a craft

Programming is a craft, an art form. Programmers are part listener, part advisor, part interpreter, and part dictator. We try to capture elusive requirements, document difficult specifications, and engineer solid foundations.

What's more, we do all this against the relentless ticking of the project clock.

We work small miracles every day.