Meet the Staff

• Brendan Wovchko - Brendan is our International sales manager. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Brendan helps provide sales and and first level technical support to our customers during U.S. business hours, when our Sydney office is closed. When Brendan isn't busy tending to sales and support, he's busy building his brand new home with his wife.
  
  Time at Interspire: Under a year
  Job Title: Sales and Support Manager
  Codes With: N/A
  Products Developed: N/A
  
  
• Chris Smith - Chris is our first PHP guru. He leads the development of SendStudio and also handles SendStudio product support. Before joining Interspire, Chris worked on one of the most popular open source CMS's available - Squiz. There isn't much Chris can't do when it comes to PHP, MySQL and PostgreSQL. When Chris isn't fine tuning SendStudio, we're busy reminding him to update his staff blog.
  
  Time at Interspire: Under a year
  Job Title: Lead PHP developer
  Codes With: JavaScript, PHP, MySQL
  Products Developed: SendStudio PHP, FastFind 2005 PHP
  
  
• John Rebbeck - John is our ASP.NET guru. He has been with us since the middle of 2003 and in that time has developed a number of applications for ASP.NET including ActiveKB, ArticleLive and DevEdit. He has 3 years of development experience with everything .NET, including web applications, web services and databases. When John's not busy developing, we're busy trying to convince him to port our ASP products to ASP.NET.
  
  Time at Interspire: 1 year
  Job Title: Lead ASP.NET developer
  Codes With: ASP, ASP.NET, JavaScript, MS Access, SQL Server 2000
  Products Developed: ActiveKB ASP.NET, ArticleLive ASP.NET, DevEdit ASP.NET
  
  
• Joseph De Araujo - Joe is our Photoshop and Illustrator guru. He's our in-house designer and has a number of different roles, including the design of our free web templates and WebEdit Professional product support. Also, when you phone our office there's a good chance that Joe will be the one who answers your call. When Joe's not designing, he's busy thinking about the design of his next template.
  
  Time at Interspire: 2 years
  Job Title: Graphic Designer / Developer
  Codes With: HTML, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, MySQL
  Products Developed: Free Templates
  
  
• Jorgen Horstink - Jorgen is our XHTML guru. When you've got a problem with XHTML generation or rendering then you go to Jorgen. Jorgen is responsible for the development and on-going refinement of the HTML to XHTML conversion library that we use to power DevEdit and WebEdit. He's always busy re-writing parts of the library, and in his free time dreams of what life would be like if we all embraced XHTML the way he does.
  
  Time at Interspire: 1 year
  Job Title: XHTML/DHTML developer
  Codes With: JavaScript
  Products Developed: HTML to XHTML conversion library
  
  
• Eddie Machaalani - Eddie is our project manager and DHTML guru. Amongst other things, Eddie handles the client-side development of all of our products, including ActiveKB, SendStudio and DevEdit. He also manages new projects that we've got in the pipeline. When he's not project managing, he develops and tests the various versions of the WYSIWYG HTML editors that we include in our applications. Most recently he's been sent insane trying to get our WYSIWYG HTML editors to work with Gecko based browsers. The good news is that he succeeded and lived to tell the tale.
  
  Time at Interspire: 2 years
  Job Title: Project manager
  Codes With: ASP, Perl, JavaScript, MS Access, MySQL, SQL Server 2000
  Products Developed: WebEdit (all versions), DevEdit (all versions, client-side), SiteCenter, ArticleLive
  
  
• Mitchell Harper - Mitchell is our product development manager and second PHP guru. He focuses on making sure the development of our products across different languages (ASP, ASP.NET and PHP) occurs smoothly. Before Interspire, he founded DevArticles.com which he sold to Developershed in 2003. When he isn't working, he's trying to regain the sanity that he once had before developing.
  
  Time at Interspire: 2 years
  Job Title: Product development manager/developer
  Codes With: ASP, PHP, JavaScript, MS Access, MySQL, SQL Server 2000
  Products Developed: ActiveKB PHP, ArticleLive PHP, DevEdit ASP+PHP (server-side), FastFind PHP, SendStudio PHP, SiteCenter PHP