About Us

West of Orange was founded and is located in West Orange, NJ, hence the name. We're a small web design firm, so we understand small businesses. We focus on developing websites for local small and medium-sized businesses.

Read some of our satisfied customer's web design testimonials.

Team Profiles

Erin Commarato

Designer, Project Manager

Erin Commarto is West of Orange's designer and project manager. She has worked on several large-scale websites in the NY-metro area and specializes in the development of interactive, e-commerce and Web 2.0 social networking oriented websites. Prior to forming West of Orange, Erin worked with Allied Office Products to upgrade and maintain their highly visible e-commerce websites. As a web developer for Allied, she became intimately familiar with the level of knowledge required to run enterprise-level e-commerce websites without downtime.

In addition, she has also worked with LiveProcess as a web designer for their online emergency healthcare planning and response website.

Erin is a dream to work with. She is knowledgable, reliable, and has great people skills. I plan on using the web services at West of Orange again.
Linda Bradler, Madcreek Design and Creative

Sam Commarato

Senior Lead Programmer

Sam is the senior lead programmer and team manager for West of Orange. He specializes in PHP/mySQL development and the integration of open source and custom-written applications. Sam is responsible for the development of websites ranging from e-commerce to social networking, dealing largely with user-generated content and data manipulations.

He spent 5 years at IDT Corporation and became the lead network engineer for their domestic VoIP network. As a network engineer, he became intimately acquainted with networked redundancy solutions and was responsible for the development of their corporate intranet. This networking framework gives him a unique background in understanding hosting and ISP issues.