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Ava Swan
Assistant

Ava Swan joined CreativePickle as an Admin and Personal Assistant in 2023. Ava works closely with Dorie and Ben to guarantee smooth operations for client requests. She works diligently to meet project deadlines and establish team organization. She enjoys learning the ins-and-outs of different tasks such as client communications, office management, project revisions, and social media.

Ava has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology as well as a minor in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. In her free time, she enjoys reading, painting, and exploring new coffee shops. She lives in Maine with her three cats.


Dorie Pickle
Creative Director

Dorie Pickle is CreativePickle’s Founding Principal, Co-owner, and Creative Director. With roots in the frenzied dot-com boom in Austin, Dorie started CreativePickle in June 2001.

Dorie is a big-picture thinker, with real-world, hands-on experience managing the creation of hundreds of brands, websites, and graphic materials. Dorie works with clients to help create a vision for their brand, and implement that vision from the ground up as a partner at the table.  She has spent the past several years assembling an experienced and highly effective in-house team as well as a broad network of skilled partners with talents to suit all client needs. Under her leadership, CreativePickle has grown to become one of Austin’s best creative design agencies. 

Dorie enjoys meeting with clients and speaking at conferences about tech trends, building brands, and digital marketing. She also serves on the Graphic Design Advisory Committee of Austin Community College, and is a member of the advisory board of Candlelight Ranch.

Dorie is creative, reliable, and loves her work and her clients. Dorie has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. In her spare time, Dorie loves star-gazing, running, yoga, and campfires. She lives in South Austin with Ben and their two boys.


Ben Pickle
Lead Developer

Ben Pickle is the Lead Developer and Co-owner of CreativePickle. He has more than fifteen years of hands-on, always evolving web development experience. Ben is highly proficient in CSS/HTML, JQuery, and WordPress/PHP customization.

Ben’s attention to detail and natural creativity have made him one of the best developers in the business. He is also able to break very technical things down for non-programmers, making the rare combination of a professional with expert-level technical abilities and the ability to communicate with our clients and our team in plain English. Ben is dedicated to keeping his code forward-looking, clean, and highly organized. 

Ben has served at CreativePickle as a consultant and freelance developer since 2001, and joined the company full-time in 2007. Ben holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas and a Master’s degree from Texas State University. In his spare time, Ben likes running, playing guitar, swimming at Barton Springs, and eating tacos. Ben lives in Austin with Dorie and their two boys.


Kim Karrasch
Senior Designer & Project Lead

Kim (Hudson) Karrasch is the Senior Designer and Project Lead at CreativePickle. She joined the team in 2017 and loves crafting high-quality, well-designed branding and graphics, always with a keen attention to detail. Kim works closely with Dorie on designing everything from logos to truck wraps to custom websites. She has a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design and Business Marketing from Colorado State University.

Kim is a world traveler and is always looking for a new adventure. In her free time, you can often find her outdoors with her husband, enjoying activities like running, paddle boarding, and skiing.


Strategic Partnerships
Our Extended Family

CREATIVEPICKLE actively partners with a variety of well-vetted, highly-skilled contractors and companies. We have built and nurtured these relationships in a variety of cities across the country over the past twenty years to help fill clients’ needs. These roles include experts such as industry-specific copywriters, content creators, social media experts, specialty programmers, photographers, videographers, drone operators, illustrators, muralists, SEO experts, virtual reality and 3D producers, printers, animators, and PR firms. We custom build the best team of experts to meet your specific needs.