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- BSc. with a Major in Computer Science from the University of Guelph
- Portal lead for Amgen Inc, and Dole Foods
Job Description:Vince is an portal lead who has experience with portal development, administration, architecture, installation, and database administration.
Skills/Specialities:.NET Framework, MSSQL, MySQL, JavaSctipt, PHP, Java, C/C++, *nix
Rockin' To:Live music, vintage guitars, music blogs, surfing, single malt scotch, reddit, techcrunch, classic films, finding new music.
Gets Things Done:logbook, basecamp, mind control
- Fanshawe College – Computer Programmer Analyst
Job Description:David developed a passion for software and computers born out of meddling with a Commodore 64 and early PC’s. At Spheric David leverages his knowledge and experience to develop and deploy client projects.
Skills/Specialities:Unobtrusive Javascript – scratch or using frameworks (Prototype, JQuery, MooTools), Ruby, Rails, Unit Testing
Rockin' To:King Crimson, finger-style guitar, orchestral composition, Apple, George RR Martin, lasagna
Gets Things Done:Basecamp, logbook, Stickies
- Graduated at NBCC Moncton with a Diploma in Computer Science Technology
Job Description:Jessy learned how to code in Basic in grade 5, he’s been fascinated with technology and problem solving ever since. While at Spheric, he hasn’t stopped learning. AS the Resident Hippie, he tries to make Spheric as Green as possible.
Skills/Specialities:AquaLogic Portal, .NET, Java, Ruby / Rails, Javscript Frameworks (Prototype, JQuery), MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, (Anything SQL), Mac Widgets, KDE Plasmoids, *nix, Mac
Rockin' To:Back country Camping, Biking, Black Diamond Skiing, Tea, Cooking, Music, Linux, KDE, Amarok, Eclipse, Autodidacticism
Gets Things Done:Spheric Log book, Basecamp, Remember The Milk
- NBCC Bathurst, Computer Science
Job Description:After being called upon by Spheric to work on a few contract projects, Pat was asked to start a new branch of Spheric with the help of Dan Martell which is now the all mighty Rails team. As the first Rails consultant on the team, he had to build most of the systems architecture and deployment methods. While doing development work on client projects Pat is keeping an eye on the applications and servers hosted by Spheric.
Skills/Specialities:Ruby, Rails, Javascript (Prototype, JQuery), MySQL, *nix, Mephisto
Rockin' To:Neutral Milk Hotel, Rocky 3, Camping, iPhone, Seinfeld, Epiphone DR-200s, Baseball, Textmate, Contra, Green Tea, Pablo (Newfoundland Dog), Christopher Hitchens
Gets Things Done:Basecamp, GMail tasks, iPhone ical & imap sync, Spheric logbook
- NBCC Bathurst, Computer Science
- CompTIA A+, Linux+ Certifications
Job Description:Matt has been coding since he was twelve – so many late nights throughout the years and he still absolutely loves it. As a member of the Rails Team, Matt specializes in legacy system conversions, database migrations and normalization, SQL, mapping and - of course - anything Rubyish, Railsish, Webish or just plain fun.
Skills/Specialities:Ruby, Rails, *nix, MySQL, MSSQL, Mac
Rockin' To:Making music, playing guitar, banging on drums, writing code, designing sites, philosophy, science, reason and truth, energy awareness, books, anything funny (Larry David, George Carlin), debates, lectures and life
Gets Things Done:Spheric Logbook, Mac Mail, GTD.
- New Brunswick Community College, Computer Programming Technology
- Did portal consulting for Procter & Gamble, Union Standard Insurance, Safeco Insurance
Job Description:Working onsite or remotely with customer enterprise portals. Developing custom apps, installing and troubleshooting aqualogic components.
Skills/Specialities:Aqualogic Portal, .Net (c#, vb.net), Database (MS-SQL, Oracle), Web Technologies (Javascript, XHTML, CSS)
Rockin' To:iPod, Macbook Pro, Working out / Running, Des Canadiens De Montreal
Gets Things Done:Spheric log book, Nokia smart phone
Connect With Rick:Twitter
- Graduated Oulton’s OTI College with a Diploma in Network Administration
- Worked in a call center for a year and started training with Spheric doing .Net dev work
- Aqualogic Portal Consultant at Yale School of Management
- Aqualogic Portal Consultant at VHA
- Aqualogic Portal Consultant at Berkley Technology Services
Job Description:Nick is the Manager of Information Systems (MIS) at Spheric. Responsible for managing the computing resources for the company. Work under the Director of Application Services He ensures the availability, continuity, and security of data and information technology services within Spheric. He is an experienced Application Developer with practical experience building database driven web applications. He possesses a solid foundation in software lifecycle, database design, user requirement definitions, user documentation, application maintenance and implementation. Nick has experience with Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Active Directory Installations, maintenance, QA & Support, Group Policy implementation, DNS Management of Windows 2000 and Windows NT. Most recently he has installed and maintained Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition on multiple systems as well as integrated DNS caching only server to the DNS and installed Active Directory.
Skills/Specialities:Computer Networking, Network Administrator Diploma, Certified MS Windows NT Professional, Certified CompTIA A+ Professional, Plumtree Portal 4.5 WS SP3, 5.0.x, G6, Enterprise Portal, Content Server, Collaboration Server, Analytics Server, Studio Server, Plumtree EDK, Plumtree Remote Client (PRC), Plumtree Communication Components (PCC), Plumtree Markup Tags, Caching and Portal Security, .NET (ASP.NET, C#, VB), C++, Visual Basic, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Unix Shell, MS Dos Batch, Transact-SQL, PL/SQL
Rockin' To:Rock Band, Lifehacker, Smallville/Superman, BlackBerry with gCal sync, Sony Cybershot, Caribou White Chocolate Mocha to Caribou/Starbucks White Chocolate Mocha, Rickard’s White Ale, Diggnation
Gets Things Done:BlackBerry Curve with Maratick To-Do lists, Google Sync for gCal synchronization to BlackBerry Calendar, Moleskin Pocket Notebook, Spheric associate handbook