Meet the Staff

• Jordie Bodlay - Jordie is the newest addition to our PHP arsenal. He is based in our Sydney office where his main mission is to improve and support ArticleLive as well as the development of new and existing products.
  Jordie is currently at university part-time doing Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Computing double degree at the University of Technology, Sydney.
  
  Time at Interspire: Under a year
  Job Title: PHP Developer
  Codes With: PHP, HTML, JavaScript, mySQL
  
  
  
• Brendan Wovchko - Brendan is our International sales manager. Based in our Nashville, Tennessee office, Brendan helps provide sales and customer service to our customers during U.S. business hours, when our Sydney office is closed. When Brendan isn't busy tending to sales and customer service, he's busy building his brand new home with his wife.
  
  Time at Interspire: 1 year
  Job Title: Sales and Customer Service Manager
  
  
  
• 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: 2 year
  Job Title: Lead developer
  Codes With: JavaScript, PHP, MySQL
  
  
  
• 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, WebEdit Professional product support as well as lending a hand with overall customer service. 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 or getting creative with our monthly newsletter.
  
  Time at Interspire: 3 years
  Job Title: Graphic Designer / Developer
  Codes With: HTML, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, MySQL
  
  
  
• 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 office manager, 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: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript
  
  
  
• 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