Team Mambo comprises many dedicated individuals from the community who volunteer their time and lend their expertise to the Mambo Open Source Project. These individuals work in teams who focus on specific areas to help grow and manage the project.

The Mambo Steering Committee comprises the leaders of the various teams that make up Team Mambo. We invite you to get to know Mambo's team leaders...

Akarawuth Tamrareang (aka Ninekrit)
[Translation Team Leader]

Khun Krit lives in Bangkok, Thailand and is one of the leaders of the dynamic Thai Mambo community. That community is one of the most active international communities and, among other things, lead a Thai language localization of Mambo and put together the first event targeted exclusively at Mambo users and developers ?€“ Mambo on the Beach. Krit also runs Mambo training classes and is personally responsible for introducing a large number of people to Mambo. When not working on Mambo, he maintains a day job as an IT specialist. He is in IT Business for more than 15 years. At the moment, he works in international IT distributor company. He's also the Vice president of The webmaster council of Thailand.

Alain Schmalz (aka Mamboswiss)
[3rd Party Development Team Leader]

A French speaking Swiss national living in the Geneva area, Alain has a Master Degree in Law and is also a Swiss Certified Tax Consultant. He is a veteran of several major international firms, including KPMG, and but has been running his own business for over a decade. Alain has been involved with IT for almost ten years and has built numerous sites for associations, small businesses, and friends. Mambo has been his preferred CMS for a couple of years. He currently pursues linguistic and semantic studies as they relate to search engines in general and to Google in particular. Alain is also undertaking the development of Mambo components based on his research.

Chad Auld (aka cauld)
[Maintenance Team Leader]

Chad is a Data Warehouse ETL (Extract / Transform / Load) developer by day and an open source coder by night. He has been using a variety of open source products, including Linux, MySQL, Apache, PHP, and others, for the better part of the last five years. Chad is a MySQL certified professional, holds a Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, and is one class shy of his Master's degree in Information Systems. He has been using Mambo for the last year and uses it to power his open source advocacy site - http://opensourcepenguin.net

David Geller (aka Hazman)
[Moderation Team Leader]

David found Mambo back in early 2003 while searching the Internet for a Salsa (music) website. The Mambo CMS name came up and caught his attention. His first experience with the program didn't go very well – he couldn't get it to install! After a number of unsuccessful attempts to get it going, he dropped it and went looking for another portal program. About a year later, David came across Mambo again (this time Googling for a Salsa Nightclub!). He gave it another go, and this time he fared better. He’s been involved with Mambo ever since. David’s very active in the community forums and hopes that by sharing his knowledge he can help people to avoid some of the trial and error he has had to go through with Mambo. He has been working with HTML and CSS for about 4 years, has experience with ASP Portals, and is a true Mambo expert. He lives in Jerusalem, Israel.

Martin Brampton (aka counterpoint)
[Core Dev Team Leader]

During the last couple of years, Martin has returned to his first professional love, software development. Mambo was the first web tool he found that actually delivered on the promise to build a web site without arcane skills or even much hard work. He moved to exploring the limits of what was achievable, and also stepped in to rescue an orphaned Mambo plugin. The result was a steadily growing interest in the deployment of technology to meet the Mambo goal of power through simplicity. Apart from many years as a software developer, mainly on large projects in the financial sector, Martin spent a decade as head of IT for a professional firm in the City of London. Since 1998, he has worked as an IT industry analyst and commentator, and currently publishes a provocative column as "Devil's Advocate" at silicon.com. He has frequently written on the power and value of the open source model, and is delighted to be leading a team that is putting the theory into practice.

Ric Shreves (aka Ricoflan)
[Advocacy & PR Team Leader]

Ric has been working with CMS-driven websites since 1999 and has built systems for a wide variety of firms, including BASF, Tesco, FPDSavills, CBRichard Ellis and Colgate-Palmolive. He was leading development of a proprietary CMS product on the .NET platform when he discovered Mambo in 2003. Inspired by the potential of Mambo, he quit the company he was working for and started Water&Stone;, a web development firm specializing in Open Source content management solutions. In addition to working with Water&Stone;, Ric is an IT journalist and Open Source advocate and is a frequent speaker at industry events. He currently lives in Bali, where he is pursuing his theory that an IT professional should be able to make a living anywhere in the world with a notebook computer and an Internet connection. So far he says, all he has been able to prove is that it is a beautiful theory...