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Dieter Gerhard
dieter@northstudio.com
President & CEO
Dieter Gerhard, former President of Hyatt Legal Services, brings
valuable business acumen to every project. He also has 6 years experience
as a College instructor teaching diploma programs in business administration,
legal administrative assistant and web site design and e-commerce.
Dieter also frequently guest lectures at other events and learning
institutions; most recently at UVic.
Dieter and his wife, Annette operate the well known Birds
of a Feather Victoria Ocean-front B&B. Dieter also holds
a seat on the Tourism Board of Victoria's West Shore Chamber of
Commerce. His insights in to the accommodation and tourism sectors
of the hospitality industry are invaluable to our clients in this
industry. Dieter's other interests include travel and boating.
His marketing savvy and search engine optimization techniques gives
all of our clients an edge over their competition. If Dieter has
search-engine-optimized your site you'll likely find yourself in
the top 10 of Google.com in
your category.
Chris Boag
chris@northstudio.com
Vice President and Principal of The Victoria School of Business
and Technology at northstudio.com Computer and Web Development Training
School
Chris, holds a Diploma in Web Site Development and has 5 years of hands-on
experience teaching and building web sites and web applications. Chris is responsible
for our course development and also oversees our internationally recognized
one-of-a-kind web design and web development Internship, work experience and
Co-op programs.
Chris also teaches Web Design and Internet Technologies at the
University of Victoria.
Chris is also the Project Manager of many of our projects including
small to large business applications. Responsible for developing
clients' ideas into practical World Wide Web applications, Chris
brings a fresh and youthful energy to our team.
Jonny Miller
jonny@northstudio.com
Senior Designer, Graphic Artist & Photoshop Expert
Jonny holds a Diploma in Web Design and is our senior designer
overseeing many of our larger projects. He is a very talented graphic
artist with a strong expertise in Adobe Photoshop. Recently Jonny
taught the Photoshop component of a web design course at UVic. Currently
Jonny also teaches the Graphic Arts courses including Photoshop,
Illustrator and Flash.
Jonny is also responsible for tech support for our some 400+ Travel
and Tourism Directories including LodgingChannel.com He
blends insight and creativity with reliability and dedication. Jonny's
open and communicative style is part of what makes our team an effective
machine.
Norm Allison
norm@northstudio.com
Senior Application Developer
Norm has more than 20 years experience in application development.
From stand alone PCs, LANs, WANs, through client/server and now the
web, Norm has managed to stay on the cutting edge of technology throughout
his career. He is a master of structured analysis and design techniques
which makes the nothStudio.com systems he designs more cost effective
and maintainable. He also has more than 5 years experience teaching
application design, database design, programming theory, and object
oriented programming. Experienced with nearly every major database
and programming language available, Norm is ready to meet all challenges.
Simon Vreeswijk
simon@northstudio.com
Web Application Developer
Simon is also a northStudio.com web development graduate
of the newest member of the northStudio.com team. Simon has studied
and interned with us from 2002 - 2004. Simon has developed skills
in web design, web application programming, and search engine optimization.
He also does in-home-on-location computer tech support. Simon is
now also training to teach at our school.
Allan Haggett
allan@northstudio.com
Web Site Developer and Open Source Software Specialist
Allan handles our day to day building of web sites. He is a dreamer.
He believes in web standards and the power of the internet to change the
world for the better. He thinks everything should be syndicated.
Allan is an Apple
Macintosh user and slices and dices pictures into web sites.
He's also pretty good at hacky sack.
Matt Salik
matt@northstudio.com
Graphic Designer, Instructor & Flash Programmer
Matt is a graphic & web designer whose complete dedication
to his work has kept him constantly in front of the screen for the
past several years. Always trying to take a different approach on
traditional ideas, Matt has spent hundreds of hours experimenting
with design, structure, programming and just about anything else
to do with web design in order to create a unique look for each project.
Many of the fresh and cutting edge templates we have built for
our clients' web sites are Matt's handiwork.
Jim Keith
jim@northstudio.com
Senior Programmer
A northStudio.com Systems Professional. An experienced Programmer,
DBA, and Business Analyst. Working tirelessly to bring your data
live to a web page near you. He is responsible for database design,
development, and implementation.
Dan Adams
dan@northstudio.com
Microsoft Applications Instructor
Dan teaches the full range of Microsoft applications including:
Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Access, Project.
He is infinitely patient with novice users, can take the frustration
out of using Microsoft products; and is particularly adept at showing
time saving tips and techniques to the more experienced user.
Dan has over 8,000 hours of computer teaching experience and has
taught an incredible range of students at various private and public
education institutes in Victoria since 1994. Hundreds of his past
students now out in the workplace.
Dan recently returned from 3 years in Tokyo where, as a Senior
Instructor, he taught Microsoft applications, in English, to multinational
professionals and executives at some of the world's most prominent
corporations (Citibank, Merrill Lynch, Disney Japan, British Embassy,
Ericsson Japan, World Health Organization, Hilton Hotels Japan, Credit
Suisse First Boston, Sony Japan, American Express, ING Barings, Air
France, Bloomberg).
When not teaching, Dan is currently pursuing an interest in documentary
film making and is having a ball with digital video editing
Hoel Ibardolaza
hoel@northstudio.com
Graphic Artist
Hoel Graduated with a Degree in Bachelor of Arts, Majored in Mass
Communications.
Formerly worked as an Advertising Head in a Prominent Department
Store in his hometown – responsibilities included Conceptualization
of Store Promotions in Print (Posters, Streamers, Fliers, Tickets,
manuals and News Ads) and has handled both Radio and Television Promotions.
Other works include Interactive Cds used in kiosks for Colgate-Palmolive
Philippines and IAMS Eukanuba Philippines, Story boards for Colgate-Palmolive,
Story boards Development for an Indian Feature Film, Poster Conceptualization
and Layout for Adventure Feature Film, and Character Designs for
an Adventure Horror Feature Film.
Hoel also developed our LodgingChannel.com mascot,
the endangered Vancouver
Island Marmot
Our Ontario Office
Carolin Smith
carolin@northstudio.com
Vice President of the Ontario Division
Carolin is our Ontario webmaster. She handles all aspects of customer
service from web design, hosting, domain registration and search
engine optimization for our Eastern Canada clients.
Carolin also administers all of our RecreationCanada.com sites
as well as all of our regional BedandBreakfastOntario.com clients
for LodgingChannel.com
Carolin is one of our northStudio.com web development graduates
now working from her home in Sutton, Ontario. Her specialty is customer
service and marketing. Carolin reports directly to our head office
in Victoria, from where she also receives full support.
Current Interns at northStudio.com
Ryan James
ryan.intern@northstudio.com
Web Application Developer Intern & Resident Hardware Systems
and Unix OS Expert
Ryan is a fourth year Computer Systems Engineering (CENG) student
at the University of Victoria. He is currently enrolled in the 12
month northStudio.com Internship / Co-op program, focusing on polishing
his programming skills and learning the skills involved in developing
web applications. He also adds his experience with Unix and computer
hardware while studying at UVic, to the northStudio.com team.
His academic interests include robotics, artificial intelligence,
and brainwave communication. Outside of school he enjoys all types
of recreation activity including soccer, baseball/softball, hockey,
frisbee etc
Lindsay Kerr
lindsay.intern@northstudio.com
Web Site Design Intern and Graphics Specialist
Lindsay has a keen eye for design and has completed The Web Design
Certification Program to get a better understanding of developing
for the web. Lindsay specializes in the design area and enjoys furthering
her web skills. Her unique style has enabled her to so far work on
various music related projects such as cd layouts, t-shirt designs
and flyers for overseas record labels.
Lindsay is now gaining valuable skills here at northStudio.com Inc.
as an intern.
Arie Kortenhoeven
arie.intern@northstudio.com
Web Site Design Intern
Samson Hu
samson.edu@northstudio.com
Web Developer Intern and Server Administrator
Samson is a talented and dedicated web developer and server administrator.
He specializes in web design, web applications, Fedora administration,
and content management systems. He also runs a webmaster related
website called devious-edge.com articles relating webmasters and
designers. Devious-Edge.
He is also a student of Mt Doug High School and a freelance web
developer to many clients around the world.
Brennan Beveridge
brennan.edu@northstudio.com
Intern
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