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Dieter Gerhard
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 traveling 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
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
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.
Chris Deakin
Web Site Developer / Flash Developer
Chris handles the day to day administration
and building of web sites.
Chris is also a master of Flash
and is a Macromedia Certified Instructor for the past 5 years in
both Dreamweaver and Flash. He also teaches Fireworks and Freehand.
Chris has taught at UVic, Royal Roads and has worked for clients
such as IBM and Electronic Arts.
Matt Salik
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.
Rob Kelly
Web Application Developer, Linux administrator
Rob is an A+ Certified Computer Technician, a Web Application Developer, and web server administrator. He has been repairing computers for over 8 years, designing websites for over 5 years, and a Linux administrator for 3 years
Jim Keith
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
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 are 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
Dave Slipp
A total geek! To Dave, a day without a computer
in it is like a day without sunshine. He's one of the laziest guys
around - he likes to teach his computer things that he can't be bothered
doing himself. Despite that, he's a pretty good teacher. He specializes
in web and print design applications and is a dedicated fan of open
source and the Grateful Dead
Hoel Ibardolaza
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
Ryan James
Web Application Developer & Resident Hardware Systems / Network Admin
and Unix OS Expert
Ryan is a Computer Systems Engineering (CENG) graduate from the
University of Victoria. He has extensive experience with Unix and
computer hardware.
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
Our Ontario Office
Carolin Smith
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 Oshawa, 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 / Co-op Students at northStudio.com
Ben Li
4th year Engineering Student at UVIC
Aysha Ozcetin
An amazing lady with grace and heart! We are lucky
to have her around
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