Mark Pascall
Director

Mark has over 16 years experience in software development and 9 in web development. His experience working on many high profile web projects in the UK and NZ has given him an excellent understanding of a broad range of web technologies and software development processes. Over the last four years he has presented at over 20 conferences through-out New Zealand on subjects including XML, Web Content Management, Agile Development and Web Site Accessibility.

Mark Chambers
Developer / BA

Mark joined us in mid 2007 to grow the Microsoft team. Hailing from England he has lived in the NZ for the last two years. Before that he spent four years working in investment banks in London village gaining Microsoft certifications, trading floor experience and a bleary eyes.

Whilst not at work he can be found brewing beer, fermenting lemons or baking brownies.

Phil Calder
Senior Developer

Phil is our senior open source developer, managing Ruby on Rails and PHP projects as a technical lead, developer, and project manager. Phil is a keen convert to the Agile development methodology, a member of the NZ Open Source Society, and the NZ PHP Users Group.

Outside work hours Phil is kept busy by 3 children and access to a Kapiti coast beach.

Ruth Pascall
HR, Office Manager

Ruth Pascall (yes I am related) manages human resources and administration for the company. She worked for a publishing company in Human Resources for 6 years whilst completing a post-graduate diploma in HRM. More recently she has been working on some very special human resource projects of her own. With 4 under 5 and Mark (you work out who is more demanding) spare time is a rather distant memory

Eduard Liebenburger
Agile Consultant

A certified Scrum Master, MCSD and Agile Project Manager, Eduard brings his experience and expertise in Agile methodologies gained overseas now to New Zealand. Over the past three years he has run software development projects at government agencies and major corporate clients.

Eduard is passionate about team building, team culture and organisational culture and valued by clients for his ability to maintain a strategic vision while delivering tactical short-term projects.

Kim Chirnside
Developer

With 18 straight years in the New Zealand education system, Kim finally graduated from Victoria University with an honours degree in Computer Science. He now spends much of his time developing web applications in Rails, PHP and PostgreSQL.
Between projects, Kim is also our friendly Systems Administrator and is often seen exiting the server room with a furrowed brow, quoting IP addresses.
In his spare time Kim is learning to sail, although he describes his boat as, 'slightly tippy'.

Nick Rowney
Business Dev Manager

If you need a website, you'll probably be speaking to Nick first. Difficult to sum-up in a few words he seems to have been everywhere and done everything - take a close look at the man with no legs in Braindead. Nowadays he is happy to talk, talk and talk.

He recently bought a patch of grass in the Wairarapa and spends the weekends sucking on an ear of corn; dreaming.

Lauren Skogstad
Designer

Recently competing an honours degree in Spatial Design at Massey University, Lauren is passionate about creating innovative designs that people will enjoy and benefit from. Lauren is interested in the relationship between architecture and web design. Websites are evolving beyond two-dimensional documents, into multi-dimensional information spaces, with blurry borders that leak to other sites, designed to entice us to experience new things

Sandy Mamoli
Agile Consultant

Sandy is one of NZ’s leading agile advocates, is a Certified SCRUM Master and a Certified SCRUM Practitioner and has a passion for using agile to bring true business value to companies. 

One of Sandy’s major agile initiatives was working on Sony Ericsson’s global enterprise website, which was a distributed agile programme of work (Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Mumbai) where Sandy was responsible for defining, managing and, in part, implementing requirements.

Mike Riversdale
Agile Consultant

Mike Riversdale is an advocate and catalyst for organisational change with experience and a passion in "knowledge management" from an on-line and agile perspective. As a certified Scrum Master he is technologically experienced/adept at delivering within the on-line environment. He is also a leading NZ industry speaker, educator and commentator on "sharing information, growing communities and connecting via collaboration".

James Robertson
Development Manager

With an honors degree in Information Engineering (Bachelor of Technology) and well over a decade of experience in the IT industry, James has has been developing websites both here and overseas for many years. Most recently he has had senior analyst/programmer roles around Wellington especially using LAMP technologies and Plone. In his spare time he: plays with his children, works on his house and garden and occasionally builds computers.

Will Marshall
Developer

Will started out life as a Peter Murphy clone. Upon discovering this career path was far from profitable, he went to University to study English, where he obtained a job as a web developer. Will's spare time is spent listening to Swans and Einstürzende Neubauten, practicing Aiki-Jujitsu and reading Mervyn Peake.

Will enjoys Ruby, CSS, Javascript and Plone.

Anna Crooks
The South Island Office

In nearly ten years of web development, Anna has held many different roles including graphic design, programming and management. Her favourite aspect of the job is helping to bring solutions to life from concepts. She believes websites should be creations of both beauty and functionality. Anna joined 3months in January 2008 on completion of a Land Rover expedition from London to Cape Town and is based in Invercargill.

Tim Knapp
Plone Developer

Tim Knapp has been developing websites in Plone since 2003. In that time, he has made Plone websites for various businesses, government departments, and not-for-profit organisations. He is also an active member of the open source community and coordinates a local Python software user group.

In his spare time he likes eating, conversing (can manage it in a couple of Asian languages too), and spoiling his Chihuahua.