Joomla! Core Team

Brad Baker

Location: Sydney, NSW, AU
Timezone: GMT +9
Position: Sites & Infrastructure Coordinator : Forum Admin
URL: www.joomlatutorials.com

Born and raised in South Africa, now living in Australia's biggest city, Sydney.

Brad has years of experience in the web hosting industry. As well as running his own local Webhosting and design business he also works for Rochen (www.rochen.com) and has done so for a number of years. He had been associated with the project since 2003, and brings his good humor and expertise to the ever growing Joomla! fold. Like many of us, he has succumbed to the hazards of the job, after years of wearing out keyboards; his handwriting is illegible and spelling deplorable without the use of a spell checker.

Levis Bisson

Location: Quebec City, Canada
Timezone: GMT -5
Position: Shop Team Lead
URL: www.jazzisoft.com

Levis is an analyste-programmer (B.Sc.A.). After many years in the job market, Levis decided to go the Laval University to study computer programming in 1997. Graduating in 2000, he started along with Michelle Bisson, a Web programming business. Their primary clientele is the Quebec government offering customized programming solutions. He had been involved in the Mambo community since July 2003 and it now actively involved in developing Joomla!. With much anticipation, he looks forward to the next phase of the Joomla! project.

Michelle Bisson

Location: Quebec City, Canada
Timezone: GMT -5
Position: Fundraising Team Lead
URL: www.jazzisoft.com

Michelle Bisson is one of the founding members of Joomla! Before that she was invited onto the Mambo Core Team in early 2004 after being active in the Mambo community since mid 2003.

She partners with Levis Bisson in a web development company, Jazzisoft International Inc. which specializes in custom programming to the Quebec government and developing Joomla! based sites to the municipal government, businesses and non-profits. Their company is also know as POPcliQ in Quebec, Canada. They are fluently bilingual: English and French. They have started to offer their services internationally.

Her involvement in the past was coordinating the User Documentation Team. Currently, she is leading the Fundraising Team, representing Joomla! at various Joomla! events and involved in organizing Joomla! events in Canada.

Chris Davenport

Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Timezone: GMT
Position: Documentation Working Group Coordinator

Born 1958, Chris first began programming on a DEC PDP8 in 1975. He gained a degree in mathematics in 1979 and after a brief spell as a mathematician in the aerospace industry got sucked into the rapidly growing computer industry. Chris has developed software at all levels from assembly language upwards, on everything from microprocessors to mainframes, and has learnt through hard experience the value of good, disciplined commenting and thorough documentation. "Documentation is as much a part of the finished product as the code itself.".

He discovered Mambo in 2003 while searching for a content management system for an intranet project. Although impressed by the product itself, he felt that the lack of documentation was a major weakness. Rather than complaining he set about trying to fix the problem by writing his own and was soon recruited to the Documentation Team. He switched to Joomla! as soon as the split occurred and is now responsible for developer documentation.

Andrew Eddie

Location: Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Timezone: GMT +10
Position: Development Coordinator
URL: newlifeinit.com

Civil engineer turned full time Web Developer, Andrew has been cutting code since the mid-80's. He has participated in several Open Source Projects, notably managing dotProject for a time and leading the development of the Mambo Content Management System from 2003 before moving to the Joomla! project in 2005.

Anthony Ferrara

Location: Bridgewater, NJ, USA
Timezone: GMT -5
Position: Development Coordinator
URL: joomlaperformance.com

Anthony, now 24, was brought up with computers.  His father, a former developer for AT&T, tought Anthony how to program from a very early age (some accounts are as early 4 years old).  He decided to take a break from computers after highschool and studied mathematics in College.  He has a diverse background including a private pilot's license, EMT, and is a state certified Firefighter.  He now is a professional PHP developer who believes in the power of open source and community involvement

Wilco Jansen

Location: Wijhe, The Netherlands
Timezone: GMT +2
Position: Development Coordinator

Born in 1967 in the Netherlands, currently living in Wijhe started assembler programming as twelve year old wiz kid on a Tandy TRS 80. After years of being a programmer, being a project manager and finaly he turned to be an IT manager. Discovered Mambo when he was creating his own content management system, and never lost focus after then. Joined core team as development coordinator in september 2006 just helping to make Joomla! even better then is already has been.

Alex Kempkens

Location: Munich, Germany
Timezone: GMT +2
Position: Events Team Lead
URL: ThinkNetwork.com

Coding is fun, software design and architectures even more. This is what Alex fascinated about computers since he got his first Amiga. In business life Alex is IT strategy consultant and is working for his own company. Besides the family life he decided to join open source projects. The way these projects "tick" and possibility to work together with great teams around the globe is as fascinating as the first 'Hello world'. Always lucking for fun and some opportunities to code he will keep on continuing with open source.

Louis Landry

Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Timezone: GMT -6
Position: Communications Team Lead : Developer
URL: jxtended.com

Louis, 28, of New Orleans, Louisiana, works in web development and holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Louisiana Tech University. His first experience with computers was playing on a 286 with Basic at his father's office. Louis has programmed in many languages, ranging from low level x86 assembly to managed languages like Java and scripting languages like PHP. He was a founding member of his university's robotics team. Louis is a car nut, and enjoys working on them in his spare time.

Sam Moffatt

Location: Toowomba, Australia
Timezone: GMT +10
Position: Development Coordinator
URL: pasamio.id.au

Sam, 20, of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, is the youngest member of the development team, is currently studying IT and has been working with Mambo (now Joomla!) since early 2004. His work came to the fore with the Google SOC and his update system, which will be further developed and included in Joomla! Sam also authors the JAuthTools project which provides LDAP support for Joomla! 1.0 and 1.5

Ole Bang Ottoson

Location: Hillerød, Denmark, Europe
Timezone: GMT +1
Position: Translations Coordinator
URL: www.ot2sen.dk - www.joomla.dk

Ole, who describes himself as an 'extension freak' has been a long-serving member of the content team for the Joomla! Extensions Directory (JED).  He still enjoys keeping the JED up to speed.   He also administers a local Danish Joomla! support site and works professionally as a Joomla! solutions provider.