Alembic Labs was founded in 2006 as a freelance design and development firm, specializing in standards-compliant and future-proof web sites for creative professionals and small businesses. We strive to create the most accessible and compatible web designs possible, allowing future changes and designs to be implemented with little to no content changes, and allow for the broadest segment of visitors (including mobile browsers and vision-disabled visitors) to have the full experience of the site.
Keith Gibbs
Lead Designer/Developer
Although first ripping apart and programming computers from the age of 7, Keith has been professionally involved in web development for over 4 years, primarily within the realm of higher education. He his currently a designer for P3I, a tech consultancy group working at the US Department of Transportation's Volpe Center. Previously, he worked (for 3.5 years) as a consultant for Boston University's Networked Information Services group, designing, developing, and managing numerous high-profile university sites, including the BU Today, BU School of Management, Research at Boston University, the BU homepage, BU School of Law, the BUniverse media archive, and the forthcoming MyBU portal.
Keith brings with him a strong, but immediately functional design sense, and a jack-of-all-trades set of web development skills, including a high level of command of XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Section 508 accessiblity, and XML and practical knowledge of PHP application development, MySQL database programming, and a host of open and closed-source Content Management Systems.
Alyssa Bittner-Gibbs
Business Manager/Content Manager
Back in 1998, Alyssa taught herself HTML by reading source code and bashing her way through and made her own website to keep her friends and family up to date with her travels in Sweden and the start of college. Although the web changed much in the last 8 years, Alyssa is still admittedly a "web addict." A linguist at heart (speaking both German and Swedish, in addition to English), she serves as Alembic Laboratories' editor, copywriter, and content expert, providing sites with a clear and coherent voice and message.
Her experience in organization and office management, coupled with her masters degree in Policy, Planning, and Administration (BU SED '06), and a keen entrepenural spirit (most of her family are entrepenuers and business owners), she oversees the management of Alembic Laboratories and assists her husband in development work for clients.
She currently works as an administrator at Harvard Business School.
More information about Alyssa and Keith can be found at their personal website