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Brad Baker
Joomla! Core Team
It all started in October 2003, when Brad stumbled upon Mambo in his quest for an easy to use CMS. By 2004 he was on the Core Team looking after forum administration. Since moving to Joomla, and seeing the community and team expand even further, his responsibilities have broadened to encompass looking after all the Joomla! websites and infrastructure.
Brad has years of experience in the web hosting industry. As well as running his own local Webhosting and design business he also works for Rochen and has done so for a number of yrs. He had been associated with Mambo since 2003, and brings his good humor and expertise to the ever growing Joomla! fold. Like many of us, he has succumbed to the hazards of the job, after years of wearing out keyboards; his handwriting is illegible and spelling deplorable without the use of a spell checker.
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Norm Douglas
Nerds on Site
nerdsonsite.com.au
Norm has worked in IT professional for almost 10 years but has been a NERD his entire life.
Having come from a Retail management background, he was thrust into the world of computers during the early 90's. Norm wanted to know more about computers and spent many nights learning new technologies including some strange thing called HTML.
Norm is now the POD leader for Australia of Nerds On Site, and international group of IT professionals. Norm discovered Joomla whilst looking for an easy way clients could update their own websites, and now using Joomla as his primary development platform.
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Andrew Eddie
Joomla! Core Team
newlifeinit.com
Andrew is an accomplished PHP web developer having been involved in many projects since 2002. His most significant achievements in the Open Source arena are his involvement in:
- Mambo (2003/2005). Andrew was lead developer and project lead at various times. Much of the source code in Mambo even today can have it's roots traced back to Andrew's contributions.
- Joomla! (since 2005) - following its split from Mambo in 2005, Joomla! has become one of the most popular and successful open source Content Management Systems on the internet. Andrew has served as project lead, core developer and is currently coordinator of the Joomla! development working group.
Andrew also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineer and a Graduate Diploma in Timber Engineering.
Based in southeast Queensland, Australia, Andrew is the Editor in Chief of The Art of Joomla!, a free, monthly magazine about Joomla! 1.5 for users, web masters, designers and developers alike. Andrew also runs his own web development consultancy, New Life in IT Pty Ltd, which is completely based on supporting commercial Joomla! services. He has also developed a number of free and commercial extensions for Joomla!
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Damian Hickey
Zacware Freeway Project
zac-ware.com
Damian Hickey is a founder of the Freeway project and ZacWare CEO. Prior to starting Freeway with Durai Prasanna in 2003, Damian worked at WorkCover Queensland as a UNIX systems administrator. He has only worked in IT since 1999. Prior to then, worked in a wide range of jobs from running a hat decorating business to exploration gold drilling. Damian is the main business analyst for the Freeway project as well as managing the overall project and its transition from a company initiative to a community based project sponsored by ZacWare.
ZacWare is the creator of Freeway, the Open Source eCommerce platform and SMACKB!Z the world's first online video library software. Freeway extends open source eCommerce by allowing store owners to sell a wide range of services including appointments and bookings, event ticketing and a vast range of subscription types. SMACKB!Z applies the UGC model to video but allows companies to maintain full control over the video upload, storage, display and playing of video as well as collect detailed metadata associated with videos at the point of upload. The goal of ZacWare is to create disruptive web based technology to invigorate business. |
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Patrick Jackson
Joomla! Consultant
kpsystems.com.au
Patrick Jackson switched to Joomla! shortly after it was released and hasn't looked back. His company, Kinetic Presentation Systems has since had a hand in implementing or modifying over 50 Joomla! 1.0 installations and is slowly getting more comfortable with Joomla! 1.5 as extension developers play catch up.
Based in Melbourne, Patrick's focus is moving towards being a consultant's consultant - providing Joomla! advice, training and troubleshooting to other Joomla! implementers. From template design and module tweaking, to component modifications and search engine optimization, if there's a facet of Joomla! Patrick's not familiar with yet, it doesn't take long to figure it out. He's also involved in the Melbourne Joomla User Group and admin's the Joomla Downunder Facebook Group.
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Ashton Murphy
Joomla! Web Design Professional
ashtonmurphy.com
Ashton was a participant in the Google Highly Open Participation Competition, completing multiple usability testing, introducing new members to the front-end and back-end of Joomla!. Through these experiences, he has learned many many things from the members of this amazing Content Management System.
Ashton currently has a business (which is soon to be revamped), that makes websites for business, and individual artists through using Joomla!. Through the many events that Joomla! runs, he has learnt and been inspired by the fantastic role models involved in Joomla!
When he isn't designing websites or participating in Joomla! events, he can usually be found at the beach, or movies.
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Dinah Randall
Geek & JoomlaDay conference organiser
spikesystems.com.au
Dinah is founder/president of the Sydney Joomla! User Group and JoomlaDay conference organiser for the second year. Also a geek in the 'deeply curious about technology, design, human interaction' kind of way and aficionado of a fistful of open source web technologies.
In her work guise, Dinah used to run a team of software developers working in UK, USA and Australia, before she chose freedom and now runs her own Joomla! consultancy. She's usually up to her elbows in the tech aspects of gluing a Joomla! site together, along with graphic design, content polishing, templating, SEO and business consulting.
In rare downtime, you will mostly find her at the beach playing beach volleyball.
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