Core Team
Dr. Neil Roodyn
Head Honcho
Neil is an independent itinerant consultant, trainer and author. He travels the world working with software companies. He loves Australia, where he spends the summer enjoying the Sydney lifestyle and helping software development teams get more productive. He spends his other summer each year flying between northern Europe and the USA working with software teams and writing about his experiences.
He brings business and technical skills to the companies he works with to ensure he has happy customers. His latest book, eXtreme .NET, introduces eXtreme Programming Techniques to .NET developers. You can find out more from his website roodyn.com or you can email him at neil@roodyn.com.
(For those who can't tell and think it's just wierd: Neil is actually wearing the MSN butterfly hat in the photo.)
Tatham Oddie
Web Team
Tatham likes to call himself a Digital Concept Consultant with a venture focus... In simpler terms, this basically means he's trying to reinvent the dot com boom. Why - because preschool commitments such as finger painting distracted him during the last one.
Based in Sydney, he operates Fuel Advance, a digital concept consultancy that focuses on delivering cutting edge, visually dynamic web based solutions that intelligently communicate and enhance your business.
He also provides .NET consulting for a number of local ISVs, and presents regularly at the NETUG and SDNUG as well as other training courses. You can find out more by emailing him at tatham.oddie@fueladvance.com.
Tom Harvey
Web Team
Tom, like Tatham, is also trying to reinvent the dot com boom with his venture focus. While he was substantially more advanced than Tatham at the time (having progressed to year one and mastered the pen) he also missed the boat.
Stretching himself between client meetings, business modeling, pixel pushing, and grumbling when the pixels don't line up, he also finds magical ways to make the loose change jar turn into weekly rent.
Based in Sydney, he operates Fuel Advance, a digital concept consultancy that focuses on delivering cutting edge, visually dynamic web based solutions that intelligently communicate and enhance your business. You can find out more by emailing him at tom.harvey@fueladvance.com.
Richard 'Tricky' Bassett
Branding
Richard 'Tricky' Bassett is one of the UK's leading branding experts.
Over the past ten years he has worked in New York, London & Sydney with both multi-national and start-up businesses, helping them to accelerate their brands across new and emerging media.
Based in Hertfordshire, England - Tricky is the Creative Director at Elastic Brand where he has worked on numerous award-winning interactive projects, clients include Disney, Playstation and Reuters
You can find out more by emailing him at tricky@elasticbrand.com.
Contributors
Greg Sadetsky
Poly9
Greg is a passionate web trends observer and an enthusiast of the embedded world. His interests include user-centered design and software development.
Based in Quebec City, Greg is the Chief Information Officer at Poly9, a web development company that provides tools and creates intuitive services built around the web platform, specializing in web solutions (interactive mapping, amongst others) and undertaking projects that will hopefully benefit interconnecting communities throughout the world.
You can find out more by emailing him at greg@poly9.com.
Denis Laprise
Poly9
Denis is a spirited developer and entrepreneur working mostly on web and desktop projects. His experience ranges from aircraft maintenance software to GIS. Strongly interested in algorithmic topics such as operation research and information retrieval, Denis gets to solve interesting challenges at work involving clustering, semantical analysis and bayesian filters (the latter, mostly to compose with the amount of spam he gets).
Based in Quebec City, Denis is the Chief Algorithms Officer at Poly9, a web development company that provides tools and creates intuitive services built around the web platform, specializing in web solutions (interactive mapping, amongst others) and undertaking projects that will hopefully benefit interconnecting communities throughout the world.
You can find out more by emailing him at denis@poly9.com.