SicolaMartin has increased its creative bench with the addition of six new employees, adding more support to their growing creative teams and internal support functions. Chris Bartik, John Burger, Kristen Leraris, Jennifer Taylor, Sylvia Guajardo and Lindsay Hertz have all joined the firm helping to support SicolaMartin's new clients including Quark, Sybase and JBoss.

Chris Bartik joins SicolaMartin as account supervisor for the recently announced Quark account. Previously, Bartik served as Marketing Communications Manager at Vignette Corporation, managing a creation and implementation of the company's global corporate brand. Prior to Vignette, Bartik worked as an assistant production manager for R.J.Kolar advertising and marketing. Bartik received a BS in advertising from the University of Texas at Austin.

John Burger joins SicolaMartin as an assistant account manager for Quark. Previously, Burger served as an assistant buyer/visual coordinator for Factorypeople, Inc., a hip Austin clothing store. Burger has a wide variety of marketing and advertising experience having worked at Enviromedia in Austin, TX and Saatchi and Saatchi in Los Angeles, California. Burger holds a BA in Studio/Art Design from The University of Texas at Austin.

Kristen Leraris joins SicolaMartin as a media manager for Quark, Sybase, BMC Software and JBoss. Leraris has tremendous agency experience, having worked at Sanlon, Hughes and Associates, Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods Advertising and Taylor Mack Advertising. Leraris holds a MA in Advertising from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in Journalism, Advertising/Public Relations from the University of Arkansas.

Jennifer Taylor joins SicolaMartin as a senior art director working on all clients, but specifically Sybase and Quark. Previously, Taylor served as senior art director and management team member at BreedloveCoffin & Partners. Taylor also served as senior art director at Leo Burnett in the Technology Group. Taylor holds a BFA in Communication Design from Southwest Texas State University.

To fully support the additional clients, SicolaMartin has hired Sylvia Guajardo as client account coordinator and Lindsay Hertz as office services associate.