Staff List

Without doubt, Egressive's greatest source of pride and marketability is its people. We come from New Zealand, Slovakia, the US, England, Switzerland, Germany, Vietnam and, of course, Guernesy. Please allow us to introduce Egressive's people. You can learn more about us by looking at our profiles. Also, you can send any of us a direct email via the contact links below - we use the contact form to avoid publicising our email address online which helps to keep our spam volumes down...

	Rob Fraser (profile) Email: contact form Roles: Director, Customer Support, System Administration, Business Development Competencies: system administration, Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Unix, Postfix MTA, Spamassassin, MailScanner, Samba, Bind, OpenVPN, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Apache, ISPConfig, Xen virtual machines, KVM virtual machines, software RAID, Asterisk PBX, scripting, bash, SSH, Subversion version control, proposal writing, business development, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP, Network design, Network installation, telephone support, Novell Netware, Novell GroupWise
	David Lane (profile) Email: contact form Roles: Director, System Administration, Development, Marketing Manager, Client Relationship Manager, Business Development Competencies: system administration, Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Postfix mta, djbdns, Bind, OpenVPN, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache 2, ISPConfig, Xen virtual machines, software RAID, scripting, bash, SSH, software development, PHP5, XML, XSLT, web standards, Drupal development, Subversion version control, proposal writing, business development, relationship management, open source advocacy, open standards advocacy, technical presentation, technical writing, CSS layout, image manipulation
	Jonathan Hunt (profile) Email: contact form Roles: Project Manager, Developer Competencies: Project management, Business Analysis, UML, Drupal development, Web application development, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, PHP5, XML, XSLT, web standards, Subversion version control, proposal writing, technical writing
	Citizen Gold (profile) Email: contact form Roles: Drupal Developer Competencies: Drupal, PHP, MySQL, Linux
	Josh Campbell (profile) Roles: Designer, Drupal Themer, Markup Wizard Competencies: Graphic Design, User Interface, Web Standards, XHTML, CSS, GIMP, Inkscape, XML, XSLT, Design Process
	Kale Worsley (profile) Email: contact form Roles: Drupal Developer
	Ross Campbell (profile) Roles: System Administrator Competencies: Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Office, Ubuntu Linux, Unix, Computer Hardware, Network Installation, HTML, CSS, Java, Oracle, SQL, Graphic Design, Photoshop, 3D Animation, Autodesk Maya
	Cathy Young (profile) Roles: Accounts Management, Administration
	Henry Jenkins (profile) Roles: CMS Manager, System Administration Assistant Competencies: Inkscape, Gimp, Subversion, OpenOffice.org
	Quang Nguyen (profile) Roles: IT Technician Competencies: Java, Microsoft Office

Celebrated Alumni

Andrew Turner - we have been very fortunate to have had the benefit of Andrew's substantial skills and good nature for the past 9 or so months. In addition to plenty of inspired Drupal development for our web application customers, Andrew's willingness to try out and persevere with new open source infrastructure capabilities like Puppet, MySQL replication, LDAP integration, Xen virtualisation, Subversion and various other clever technologies has left Egressive's internal systems far more robust than they were before his tenure. We'll miss his low volume humour, the subtle quip, and having a unicycle standing outside our door... we in the Effusion Group just hope that Bluewater Systems will have the wisdom to allow Andrew to continue his weekly tradition of providing a set of amusing links. Egressive wishes Andrew the best of luck with his FreeBSD development and hope that he can fulfill his hardware hacking ambitions in his new role.
Marisa Spear - for several years she has kept us (and our few "less than punctual" customers) in line, making sure that nothing falls between the cracks of our billing and payment systems. Marisa is already a dedicated mum to two little girls and is preparing to introduce another bundle of joy to the world - all the best in that endeavour, Marisa!
Matthew Whiting - former PHP Developer/Drupal Specialist - Matthew's decided that his real passion lies in conservation and the environment, and he's gone back to university to pursue a course that should allow him to make a career in that area. We wish him all the best with that. We're still in touch, and we have reason to believe that he finally got his "winmodem" running under Linux!
Jim Cheetham - our former Customer Services Manager/System Architect/Byte Wrangler has now left us for a high-end system administration position in Wellington with a multi-national IT firm (who, incidentally, are trying to hop onto the open source bandwagon at the moment). We keep in contact, and Jim still does a few odds and ends with us - he may also have other things on the go. He's also still active in the Canterbury Linux Users' Group. It was fun having him here, and sad to see him go, but it's great to know that he and his young family are doing well up north!
Marek Kuziel and Chris Noel - former Chief Web Application Developer/Software Architect and Software Developer/Legal Advisor now trading as the Effusion Group's newest member: Encode Ltd. Marek is a master of PHP software architecture, having developed, among other things the PLUM engine - called "Hurldinger" - which powered our previous site (before the switch to Drupal in 2007). Chris spent a lot of time working on our TPRS (Tree Planter's Record System) system as well as authoring a number of our legal documents. The fellas at Encode still work with us regularly, often assisting us on specialised development tasks and legal documentation for which they are best suited.
Becky James - former and occasionally still pinch-hitting Accounts Manager/Swing Dancin' Idol - she kept us organised and on the right side of our suppliers, clients, and the IRD.
Chris "Buddha" Schneider - the "cleaner", expert PHP developer and debugger second to none. Has provided invaluable assistance in earlier framework development projects and porting to newer Linux and PHP versions. Currently based in Zuerich, Switzerland - the company he works with is responsible for search.ch, Switzerland's premier search engine - along with other cutting-edge projects.
Damien Bateman - former chief developer, architect of the original Egressive UMS (User Management System), our novel PHP/RDBMS/XML/XSLT web application framework upon which industrial strength web applications such as OpenStrategies are built. His new company, Lakros, develops foreign exchange trading systems and tracking/bill of lading software for the shipping industry.
Joerg Baach - itinerant developer, helped us with some significant chunks of difficult OpenStrategies development. Last I heard, he's in Dublin, where he's now a devotee of the Tango... We expect his Tango interest hasn't come at the expense of his tap dancing - he's a bit of a dancing machine!
Palmer Moore - gifted web designer and naval architect. Our pre-Drupal Egressive site (built on an in-house PHP framework dubbed "Hurldinger") was his original design, as are quite a few others in our pre-Drupal web portfolio sites - many thanks Palmer! He's currently back in Boston, MA, USA, playing Ultimate, doing some web design and designing boats again.