Meet the Staff

• Amit Bhatia - Amit is one of our product specialists. His experience with both PHP and our products is exceptional and he has fantastic customer service experience as well. Amit started out as a passionate customer but he loved our products so much that he offered to help with support, marketing, writing articles and more -- and we just couldn't refuse!
  
  Time at Interspire: Under a year
  Job Title: Product Specialist
  Codes With: PHP, HTML, JavaScript, XML
  Products Developed: N/A
  
  
• Brendan Wovchko - Brendan is our International sales manager. Based in our Nashville, Tennessee office, 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: 1 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 TrackPoint and SendStudio and also helps with 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 TrackPoint, we're busy reminding him to update his staff blog.
  
  Time at Interspire: 1 year
  Job Title: Lead developer
  Codes With: JavaScript, PHP, MySQL
  Products Developed: SendStudio, FastFind, TrackPoint
  
  
• 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: 2 years
  Job Title: XHTML/DHTML developer
  Codes With: JavaScript
  Products Developed: HTML to XHTML conversion library
  
  
• Eddie Machaalani - Eddie is our marketing manager and DHTML guru. He handles marketing tasks and the client-side development of all of our products, including ActiveKB, SendStudio and DevEdit. Before founding Interspire, he worked in freelance development roles at several technology companies. 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: 3 years
  Job Title: Project manager
  Codes With: JavaScript
  Products Developed: WebEdit, DevEdit, ArticleLive, TrackPoint
  
  
• Mitchell Harper - Mitchell is our development manager, content editor and second PHP guru. He focuses on making sure the development of our products occurs smoothly. Before starting Interspire, he founded various technology companies, including 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. He also finds it highly ammusing when our competitors copy our ideas ;0
  
  Time at Interspire: 3 years
  Job Title: Development manager
  Codes With: JavaScript, PHP, MySQL
  Products Developed: ActiveKB, ArticleLive, DevEdit, FastFind, SendStudio, SiteCenter