Speakers - Joomla! World Conference 2012 - Joomla! World Conference 2012

Achim Fischer

Developer with a focus on Joomla! extensions (Discussions & Marketplace), Ruby on Rails and Mobile Devices. His big passions are all kind of technical gadgets especially smartphones & tablets. Attendant and speaker at local and international events....

Alan Langford

Alan Langford started programming by stealing mainframe time from his local university in 1971.He hasn't stopped since. He has spent most of his career working in telecommunications andinteractive systems, including instant messaging, teletext, voice response, and web applications. Alan has been active in FOSS since the mid 1990's, and involved with Joomla since 2006. He isa founding member of the Security Team, a former member of the Development Team and JBS,and is an active contributor to oth...

Alex Andreae

An electrical engineer in a past life, Alex co-founded SourceCoast Web Development in 2008. Based in Austin, TX, SourceCoast develops extensions for Joomla with a focus helping to grow your site quickly. Their primary products are JFBConnect for Facebook and JLinked for LinkedIn integration with Joomla. Alex has spoken at multiple Joomla Days on various extension, developer, and business-related topics. In 2011, he contributed the "Running a Business Around Joomla! Extensions" chapter to the Co...

Alice Grevet and Dianne Henning

Co-lead Editors of the Joomla! Community Magazine....

Alice Grevet and Paul Orwig

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Andrea Tarr

Andrea Tarr has been a programmer and IT manager for 30 years and is currenty the Joomla/PHP Architect for Information Analytics & Innovation for MetaScale/Sears Holdings. She is a member of the Joomla Production Leadership Team and the Joomla Bug Squad and a former board member of Open Source Matters. Andrea was involved in the development of Joomla 1.6 and created the accessible administrator template Hathor. She wrote the first computerized library circulation system in the state of...

Bob Page

VP Analytics Platform & Delivery at eBay Responsible for the data & analytics platforms, applications and services for the world's largest online marketplace. Web analytics, business intelligence, experimentation, advanced metrics, visualization, user intelligence, inventory intelligence, you name it. ...

Brad Markle

My name is Brad Markle, and I've been working in the web hosting industry for over 6 years. I currently work with InMotion Hosting. I was first introduced to Joomla! in 2006, and have used it on / off again over the last 6 years. Recently, my professional work has revolved around content writing and best SEO practices, and I've been using Joomla! everyday for almost the last 2 years....

Brian Prince

Brian H. Prince is a Principal Cloud Evangelist for Microsoft, based in the US. He gets super excited whenever he talks about technology, especially cloud computing, patterns, and practices. His job is to help customers strategically leverage technology, and help them bring their architecture to a super level. In a past life Brian was a part of super startups, super marketing firms, and super consulting firms. Much of his super architecture background includes building super scalable applicati...

Chad Windnagle

Chad Windnagle has been working with Joomla for over six years. Having created hundreds of Joomla sites and working for a Joomla consulting firm, s-go Consulting for over six years, he is highly experienced and familiar with Joomla Development and the Joomla Community. Chad has spoken at many Joomla events throughout the last five years. In particular he presented Joomla talks at: -Joomla!Day DC -Joomla!Day Midwest -Joomla!Day Chicago -JandBeyond. In addition to building Joomla sites and speak...

Christopher Gomez

Christopher works full time with Joomlashack, where he has been providing support to customers for two years. Residing in San Francisco's East Bay, he spends most of his free time doing the things he loves; fitness training, traveling, being outdoors as well as creative endeavors through music, art and dance. He's happy to be able to share his joy of running with those who will join him in the Joomla Performance Runs....

Christopher Nielsen

Christopher Nielsen came from a background in the entertainment industry as an award winning drummer, composer and producer of television programing and large scale festival events. In addition to his musical interests he was the Marketing Director for a property management company in St. Paul MN where he developed marketing materials, ad buys and other collateral for two 30 story towers of residential units, over a million sq ft of office space and managed a retail merchant group of 45 vendors....

Cory Webb

As founder of Cory Webb Media, Cory Webb builds Joomla-powered websites for organizations large, small and any size in between. His tutorials, tips, and techniques for his site, HowtoJoomla.net, have helped thousands navigate Joomla better. In 2009, his book, Beginning Joomla Website Development (Wrox), found its way onto national bookstore shelves as an easy-to-understand guide to building a website with Joomla. Cory holds an MBA from Baylor University and an undergraduate Electrical Engineeri...

Daniele Rosario

I'm an experienced web developer and web integrator; i started working with Joomla! back in 2006. After that i started working on custom extensions for Joomla!, while working for a local web agency. In 2010 I also joined the Dioscouri.com development team, becoming the Tienda team leader. At the same time, me and Dario Peroni opened Weble, an italian web agency, which has rapidly grown as a well know company building websites for both small and big italian companies. Just before JAB11, Weble an...

David Hurley

David is the owner of WebSpark, a company located in Burlington, North Carolina that focuses on application development, website design, and business consulting. He has been a part of Joomla! since its inception and worked with its predecessor prior. David has successfully run his website and app development company since 2003 building on the Joomla! framework. His company has worked with clients from around the world ranging in size from small local businesses to large international companies,...

Dennis Kmetz

Dennis Kmetz is the Director of Interactive Media at Taylor Bruce Design Partnership, where he specializes in front-end Joomla! website development. Prior to joining Taylor Bruce, Dennis worked as a freelance front-end Joomla! developer for six years and served as a Project Manager and IT Architect at IBM for thirty-two years, specializing in bringing legacy systems to the Internet. Dennis is an active participant in the Joomla Chicago User Group and has delivered presentations on both technical...

Donald Champion

Donald Champion is the CTO of Polished Geek, a Raleigh, NC based Joomla! web development company he helped found in February 2009. Donald is the technical solution architect who created JoomLister, the only native Joomla component certified by eBay™ for listing management and inventory synchronization with Joomla E-commerce stores. He’s been developing web applications and custom extensions for Joomla! for over four years, prior to which he spent over a decade working in product engineering...

Dr. Amy Patillo

Business Development and Educational Specialist with CNP Integrations and 4-H Youth and Family Development Specialist at University of Missouri Extension. Working as a youth specialist I have the opportunity to work with youth ages 5-18 years of age. My focus is to help youth explore career and personal interests outside of the school setting while providing a safe, positive and enriching environment where youth can interact with same age peers, develop leadership skills, investigate personal in...

Edwin Cheront

Edwin CHERONT is a consultant in informatics for 1983 and founded in 2002 Edwin2Win. He developed applications in C, C for 25 years and has 10 years experience in artificial intelligence (OCR, fuzzy logic, neuronal network, free text recognition to automate money transfer processing and also anti money laundering). He also worked in EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) for 3 years and contributed to the normalization of the order, despatch advice, invoice at EDIFACT and Gen...

Eli Aschkenasy

Eli was born in Switzerland where he first dabbled in programming on his IBM PC (whopping 4.77 MHz processor). He studied at Technion University in Israel, where he received a Bachelors of Science in Software Engineering. The majority of his career has been spent working as the Director of IT for a local college, which allowed him to gain an understanding of both the technical as well as the management aspects of a wide variety of projects. In addition, he enjoyed participating in various speak...

Elin Waring

Elin Waring contributes to the Joomla CMS and the Joomla Platform. She has been active in many parts of the Joomla Project, from being a founding member of the Joomla Bug Squad to serving as President of Open Source Matters. She is co-author The Official Joomla! Book published by Joomla! Press. In her other life she is Professor of Sociology at Lehman College in New York City....

Gabe Wahhab

Hi, I’m Gabe, an entrepreneur and president of Savvy Panda a Joomla! Web Design and Inbound Marketing firm in Milwaukee, WI. I enjoy helping businesses grow through the internet and Joomla!. I am Hubspot Certified Consultant with over 19 years of collective experience in Web Development & IT. Additionally I am the editor of the Business Matters section of the Joomla! Community Magazine and a Co-Founder of Joomla! Day Midwest and the Milwaukee Joomla! Users Group. In my free time I like to...

Guido Jansen

During my study in psychology and usability, I started a Dutch Joomla community site (it was still called Mambo back then), been involved in the organisation of several Joomladays in The Netherlands and spoke at many events about Persuasion, Usability, E-commerce, Joomla and/or Magento. I’m quite busy in the Dutch “Open Source“ community. My main involvement lies with web-based applications and the communities involved with it. I founded one of the largest local Joomla! communities ...

Hans Kuijpers

Hans Kuijpers works with Joomla! since the Mambo era. With his own company he works with both Joomla and Magento. Striving to create clean and fast websites with his own company HKweb. As one of the organizers of the Dutch Joomladays and one of the 15 Dutch Joomla Usergroups he gets in contact with lots of Joomla addicts. ...

Helvecio da Silva

Graphic Designer who boldly moved towards the internet realm in the late 20th Century, currently owns a one-man graphic and web design studio focused on developing websites with Joomla. Based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he is passionate about his work and Joomla. Recently, has associated with Rio users to found Rio JUG. His work is focused in making the most out of Joomla and loves to make life of Joomla newbies (or not) easier. Runs a blog in portuguese with tutorials, tips and tricks about the...

Hope Kiah

A Santa Fe web designer since 1998, Hope Kiah has been building Joomla sites since 2009, including many art sites. Her Keyword Tutorial Ebook won the New Mexico Book award for business in 2008. All her sites are search-friendly and most get on page one of Google for the primary keyword phrase within a month....

James Westley Foreman

Professional Joomla Web Designer/Developer User Experience Strategist and Internet Entrepreneur James Foreman has a creative body of work rare among web professionals. His success began in the early days of the Internet while founding his first startup in 1998. Foreman has evolved into a multi-skilled designer and technician, coupled with years of Internet marketing and advanced SEO skills. In recent years he has been a highly sought-after Joomla designer/developer, presenter and consultant for...

Javier Gomez

Javier Gomez was born in Barcelona (Spain) and works as a freelance Joomla! developer. This year he has been elected to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2012 creating a language installer for Joomla! Javier has been very involved in the Spanish speaking Joomla! community in the forums, translation and the organization of off-line meetings and events. He became active in the community in 2007 by organizing the first national Joomla! meeting in Barcelona and has participated in several ot...

Jessica Dunbar

Jessica Dunbar is a Systems Administrator & SEO Guru at Trivera Interactive in Milwaukee, WI. Jess is an active member within the Joomla as well as the Concrete5 communities. Before finding Joomla, Jess' education includes a BS in Computer Science with a minor in Network Administration. Jess has also worked at Renaissance Learning, a leading provider of technology-based school improvement and student assessment programs for K-12 schools. In her free time, she can be found either ...

Joe Sonne

Joe comes from a successful career in the high technology side of the communication, publishing, and multimedia industry. Prior to starting Joe Sonne Marketing in 2009 Joe was the Director of Communications for a national association in Canada. Joe got involved with Joomla! shortly after the establishment of joomla.org. Joe is an experienced speaker and presenter, also a contributor to the Joomla! Community Magazine, participant in the Joomla! Marketing Chat, and the SWOT Group study which does...

Jon Neubauer

Jon Neubauer is an experienced Joomla! developer based out of Charlotte, NC. Jon found Joomla! in 2009, started using it immediately, and never looked back. As a developer and project manager for Joomla! websites both large and small, Jon gets the unique opportunity to tackle new problems every day, and find ways that Joomla! can answer them. As an enthusiastic Joomla! Community member, you'll find Jon in many places including the Bug Squad, Joomla! Community Magazine, Joomla! Documentation, an...

Jonathan Gafill

Jonathan Gafill is lead Project Manager at CloudAccess.net. He oversaw the creation of the SobrietyMonitor.com and other enterprise-level Joomla! implementations. Known as a “jack of all trades”, Jonathan’s strong points combine critical thinking, a wide skill set, and a can-do attitude. His communication skills allow him to effectively interpret and translate technical tasks between the clients, developers and programmers. This results in projects that are completed on time and in scope....

Jonathan Hogan

Jonathan Hogan lives in Simi Valley, California and is the Chief Technology Officer and Director of Business Development of Rapattoni Corporation. Jonathan joined Rapattoni in November 2007. He oversees development and planning of Rapattoni's products and manages all departments involved in technological development, and serves as the technical liaison between Rapattoni and its customers....

Joomla Internationalization Working Team

The internationalization working team is a group of volunteers with members of the community and also from the leadership teams that works towards improving the internationalization of the project. Join us....

Joseph LeBlanc

Joseph LeBlanc began programming when he was eight years old. Since then he has become a computer programmer and an active member of the tech community in Austin, Texas. After writing a Mambo programming tutorial in 2004, Joseph went on to author Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development, Joomla! 1.7: Programming and Packaging Extensions, and Node.js First Look. Joseph currently writes code for Cory Webb Media while sampling tacos and bánh mì sandwiches around Austin....

Kevinjohn Gallagher

Kevinjohn Gallagher is an executive-level Business Transformation and Digital Consultant with almost 20 years of cross-industry experience. Through his growing consultancy, Pure Web Brilliant, Kevinjohn has delivered continued success to an amazing range of companies. A passionate advocate of Open Source Software, Kevinjohn strongly believes that by adopting a pragmatic Agile approach through the innovations brought about by modern digital thinking, that spectacular Returns on Investment can be...

Kyle Ledbetter

Kyle Ledbetter is a principal usability engineer for eBay, Inc. Kyle also owns Pixel Praise, which is the company behind Projectfork, AdminPraise and TapTheme. Kyle is currently leading the JUX (Joomla eXperience Project) which first redesigned Joomla.org, and is now focusing on the UX of Joomla 3.0....

Kyle Ledbetter & Mark Dexter

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Leadership Team

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Lee Stigile

Lee Stigile heads MySQL Technical Sales Engineering for the Americas at Oracle. He joined MySQL AB in 2005 as Sales Engineer and helped fast-growing web properties to architect and deploy scalable & highly-available MySQL-based applications. Following Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Lee became manager for the Americas team, with members in Canada, the US, Mexico and Brazil. In addition to helping companies deploy MySQL for online applications, he is a certified MySQL Develo...

Louis Landry

Louis Landry is a Joomla Platform maintainer and contributor having served in numerous roles for Joomla including Development Coordinator, Project Manager, and Leadership Team member.He works as a Senior Software Architect within eBay's Analytics organization in San Jose, CA. He is co-author of the book "Joomla Programming" from Joomla Press that teaches the next generation of developers to build powerful, secure and useful software with Joomla....

Luke Summerfield

Greetings! My name is Luke, the brains behind the Inbound Marketing & SEO team at Savvy Panda. I love to find creative and unique ways to build brands both on & offline. I’m a huge supporter of my home town, Milwaukee and love the Green Bay Packers. Over 9 years in the sales & marketing world - Bachelors in Marketing from UW-Milwaukee - Hubspot Inbound Marketing Certified V.A.R. - Google analytics and adwords IQ certified - Writer for the Joomal Community Magazine (JCM) - Member o...

Marc Gaffan

Marc Gaffan has over 15 years of R&D, Product Management & Marketing experience in high-tech companies. Prior to founding Incapsula, Marc was Director of Product Marketing at RSA, EMC’s security division, responsible for strategy and go to market activities of a $500M IT Security product portfolio. Before that, Marc was the Director of Marketing for the Consumer Solutions Business Unit at RSA. While at RSA, Marc presented at the US Congress, FDIC and Federal Trade Commission on c...

Mark Dexter

Co-author of Joomla! Programming, member of Production Leadership Team, Coordinator of the Joomla! Bug Squad. I've been working with Joomla for 4 years and have been on the PLT for 3 years....

Matias Aguirre

Matias Aguirre is a young Argentine programmer with extensive experience in open source systems and events involving Free Software in Latin America and the world. A fervent advocate of open source has been used since 1996 free systems using Slackware GNU / Linux as a development platform. By the year 1999 met the PHP programming language and over time was developing, fixing and improving management systems like Mambo free, Wordpress and Joomla! the latter being among the large community prefere...

Matthew Baylor

An electronics engineer by trade, Matt started using Joomla in 2007. He went back to school for web web design and interactive media and started Natural Selection Web Design LLC in 2009. Since then the primary focus has been helping startups and small businesses. In his spare time he manages the Extensions Directory....

Mike Carson

A long-time training expert in vertical markets, Mike Carson is the CEO of Integrated Technology and Design Inc (itdwebdesign.com), and the well-known online storefront called JoomlaShowroom.com where they develop and distribute their Joomla extensions. Mike has been designing Joomla websites and developing very popular Joomla extensions since the infancy of the Joomla project (the Mambo days). Mike cannot even think of developing a website using any other framework other than the Joomla! Platf...

Nicholas K Dionysopoulos

Nicholas is a 31 year old ex-Mechanical Engineer, turned web developer. Mostly known as the developer behind Akeeba Backup, Admin Tools and a gazillion other extensions, he's been into computers since the tender age of eleven, when he convinced his parents to buy him an Amstrad CPC6128+ to learn programming. He's written software in a variety of programming languages, ranging from Visual Basic and Delphi to x86 assembly and Fortran, settling for PHP about a decade ago. An avid Joomlaholic, he e...

Nuno Zimas

I've kicked off my professional IT career back in July 2001 in a research unit adjoined to the Technical University of Lisbon. Ever since I have gradually embraced all sorts of open source technologies dealing with many different scopes, from operating systems to content management, e-learning environments, project management, media broadcasting and LAMP servers administration. Joomla is my main web development framework of choice since mid 2003 (then Mambo Open Source). I'm currently based in B...

Oliver Ratzesberger

Oliver Ratzesberger is Vice President Information Analytics & Innovation for Sears Holdings Corporation. In this position Oliver is responsible for the overall Big Data, Analytics as a Service and Insights Platforms and Data Science strategies at SHC. Oliver came to SHC after spending 7 years at eBay, building some of the world’s largest production Big Data solution to manage in access of 100PB of data. Before joining eBay he spent more than 10 years with extreme large scale massively para...

Parth Lawate

Co-founder and director of Techjoomla and Tekdi Web Solutions. Parth has been working with Joomla since the days when it was called as Mambo, and was a Google Summer of Code mentor for the Joomla Project in 2009. Co Founder of Joomla User Group Pune, Parth plays a key role in Organizing Joomla Day India. Away from the computer, you will find him on his bicycle, hiking in the mountains, reading or cooking up some new dishes !...

Pascal Finette

Pascal is Director of Mozilla's Open Innovation group and WebFWD, where he works with the wider community inventing the future of the Web. He loves technology and believes that the Internet is deeply impacting mankind. Prior to Mozilla, he led eBay's Platform Solutions Group, launched a consulting practice to help entrepreneurs with their strategy & operations and invested into startups, among other things. Craig Newmark (Craigslist) described Pascal as "a social change maker to watch.", the...

Paul Orwig

Paul Orwig was born in 1958 in Houston, Texas. He has earned a BBA from Texas A&M University and a MBA from the University of Denver. He has over 15 years of professional internet and web technology experience, and now works as a freelance web solutions provider in Parker, Colorado. He is currently serving as the President of Open Source Matters, which is the non-profit organization that supports the Joomla project. Paul began volunteering for the Joomla project as a webmaster for the Jooml...

Peter Martin

Although Peter has a background in marketing & communication, he discovered programming in PHP/MySQL in 2003 and Mambo CMS a year later. Since 2005 he has been active in the Joomla community: at first as regular forum user, and later as Global Moderator at Joomla forum and member of the Community Leadership Team. Peter loves the freedom and possibilities that open source software gives you as user and the knowledge sharing that you can only find within such open source communities. Peter ha...

Peter van Westen

Peter van Westen has been working with Joomla! for several years now with his one-man company, NoNumber! He offers an ever-growing collection of highly rated extensions, like Advanced Module Manager, Articles Anywhere, Tabber, Slider, Sourcerer, etc. He is also the driving force behind the extension ‘What? Nothing!’....

Randy Carey

Randy is the web architect at Careytech Studios. In 2012 he launched the iCue Project (improving the CMS user experience) with the goal of developing best practices and Joomla extensions that will improve the CMS user experience from the client's perspective. With a background in software engineering, Randy appreciates Joomla! for its infrastructure which leverages object-oriented design and the MVC design pattern. Having worked also on the business side of the web equation, he is quite conscio...

Reneta Tsankova

Reneta Tsankova is the Chief Operations Officer of SiteGround.com - a leading web hosting company internationally recognized for its special Joomla! expertise, accommodating more than 250,000 domains and hosting more than 80 000 Joomla! web sites. An excellent strategist and business projects executive, Reneta is overseeing and managing SiteGround marketing, advertising, public relations, sales, accounting, and billing policies. Since she joined SiteGround back in 2004 she has been respons...

Richard Kendall Cabe

As co-founder and partner at Times Two Technology LLP, Kendall Cabe works with clients to understand their needs and to build useful and easily maintainable sites to meet those business and marketing needs. Through Times Two Technology, Kendall is able to offer clients sites built around the Joomla! framework. Kendall's goal is to meet the clients business needs, not just to provide them a website. Kendall is there for his clients to offer full life cycle website development and training, mento...

Robert Deutz

Robert Deutz, born 1966, after successfully finishing his study electrotechnics, worked for several system houses as a Project engineer and founded Robert Deutz Business Solution in 2002. Since then he is occupied with solutions for medium-sized companies and works as consultant for various companies. The Internet is on the top of his agenda for 15+ years now and he discovered Mambo CMS beginning 2004. The incomplete documentation of Mambo was the reason he started writing the Book about CMS Ma...

Robert Jacobi

Robert Jacobi is President of Arc Technology Group, a high quality web design, development and content management provider with unique skills that appeal to a broader base of consumers than just IT. The open nature of their solutions focusing mainly on Joomla appeals to those companies that need to execute today yet require flexibility for future business. Arc has experience in working with Fortune 50 companies as well as entrepreneurs. There business mantra is “open solutions driving bus...

Rod Martin

Rod is the Director of Online Training at OSTraining.com. He has created over 250 training videos in the past 2 years that have been viewed by thousands. He holds two masters degrees and has been training people how to do "things"" for over 25 years. Originally from Australia, he grew up in Canada and now resides just outside Cincinnati, Ohio. He has worked in both the non-profit and for-profit worlds, in small companies and large corporations....

Ronni K.G. Christiansen

Ronni is the CEO of redCOMPONENT.com, redWEB.dk, redHOST.dk and iRedHOST.com and has been building ecommerce websites since 1998 where he was the creator of the first officially approved CMS + Ecommerce system by the Danish banks payment system. Ronni has built more than a 1000 ecommerce sites and is one of the most experienced developers of ecommerce sites in the Joomla community....

Ruth Cheesley

Ruth runs Virya Technologies and Virya Software and has worked with Joomla! since the fork from Mambo. Virya means a driving force or energy to do good for the benefit of others, which is the central ethos behind the business. Ruth specialises in Joomla! and is interested in exploring how open source technology can be implemented in business and education. She's also a field hockey goal keeper, training for ordination in the Triratna Buddhist Order and runs the popular Joomla! User Group Suffol...

Ryan Ozimek

Ryan Ozimek is the CEO of PICnet, past President of Open Source Matters, and focused on creating solutions that can help make the world a better place....

Ryan Ozimek & Brian Teeman (The Joomla Odd Couple)

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Sam Moffatt

Sam Moffatt is a long term Joomla! developer focusing on backend platform and libraries. Sam's primary work in the Joomla! space has been around the Joomla! extension installer and updater as well as authentication systems. Sam presently works for eBay's Analyics Platform and Delivery group working on an internal Joomla! powered intranet site and other Joomla! Platform based solutions. Sam's previous employers include the University of Southern Queensland as an analyst programmer working on ope...

Sander Potjer and Randy Carey

Sander Potjer regularly blogs about Joomla’s ACL and is the developer of ACL Manager, a popular extension for managing a site’s ACL settings. Randy Carey is the developer behind the iCue Project, an initiative that explores techniques and best practices for managing web content....

Sarah Watz

Sarah Watz has been working with marketing, communication and sales for 20 years. Sarah's passion is to provide great business value in the projects she is involved with. Sarah is a passionated Joomla! evangelist that runs the web agency PIXPRO delivering Joomla CMS web solutions, runs PIXPRO LABS (providing the popular extension PixSearch), is an evangelist for MIGUR (providing the ground breaking newsletter component Migur Newsletter). Sarah was the president of Joomla! User Association Swede...

Steve Burge

Stephen Burge grew up in and around Portsmouth in southern England. He comes from a long line of teachers and soon became one himself. Teaching never made him rich, but it did pay the bills during years living abroad in Wales, Mexico, Japan, Australia, and the United States. During his travels he dabbled with building Web sites and in 2003 discovered Mambo, the predecessor to Joomla. Three years later, his evening job as a Web designer was making him more money than this day job as a teacher. S...

Steve Fisher

Steve is the creative team nerd-herder at Yellow Pencil in Canada. He leads the charge on coordinating research, business analysis, visual and interaction design, and content strategy. On the global stage he's a sought-after speaker on topics like responsive web design, UX, open source, design thinking, and web process. He also loves Twitter (maybe a little too much) @hellofisher....

Tito Alvarez

Tito is an IT enthusiast and entrepreneur as well as an experienced php/javascript programmer. He has worked in web projects for over 10 years as lead developer of several and serious applications for banking and industrial companies in Central and North America. He has been working with Joomla for some years now, creating templates and extensions. He's a promoter of the guatemalan Joomla User Group, where they recently had their first Joomla Day. Recently, he has been appointed as lead develope...

TJ Baker

TJ has worked with Joomlashack and Joomla for over 6 years, has taught Joomla to hundreds of people with OSTraining.com, and is part owner and CEO of Cumbia LLC, the makers of Admincredible - a new site update and management tool for Joomla currently under development. TJ has been active with different Joomla working groups over the years, most recently working with the Events team build a new events site and help spread the word about the great Joomla events. TJ lives in central California wit...

Victor Drover

Victor is the Founder and CEO of Anything Digital, a well-known Joomla development shop based in Sussex, Wisconsin. His portfolio boasts some of the most popular add-ons for Joomla including SEO and calendaring tools such as sh404SEF and JCal Pro, respectively. Victor is also a volunteer in the Joomla project and serves/has served on numerous committees including the Joomla Extensions team that manages the official directory for Joomla add-ons and more recently the Joomla Events team. He has he...

Yannick Gaultier

Yannick is an independent software developer from Bordeaux, France. After 20-years in engineering he decided to start sh404SEF in 2006 and released it publicly, with other free extensions. 5 years and a few hundred thousands users later, he is now a fulltime developer, expanding sh404SEF and creating new products for open-source CMSes, such as Josetta....