Meet the team
About the Club
The Joomla Bamboo Team
Anthony Olsen - Lead designer and Head Bamboo
I first started to learn Joomla around three years ago when I needed a website for my Acupuncture practice. In learning Joomla I discovered how easy it was to learn and to design for. A curiousity became a compulsion and late in 2006 Joomla Bamboo was born. I love minimal, clean and interesting design - this love drives the designs that we put out each month. When Im not coding, designing or treating people Im most likely hanging out in Melbourne with my family of three young girls and wife.
Lives to: Design, surf, communicate
Listens to: Downtempo electronica/ambient, Folk acoustic and Film soundtracks
Jeremy Wilken - swiss army knife and Gnome on the run
After starting with basic HTML in the late 90's, I picked Joomla up while it was in version 1.0. Since then I've worked on dozens of sites that are powered by Joomla, and work with other systems as well. My interests and skills are like a swiss army knife, ranging from design, marketing, development, and programming. Armed with a degree in video production, I hope to get into the film business someday, but until then I spend a lot of time with my wife and two kitties or try to travel when life permits. I run Gnome on the run, and provide full web development services to clients around the world.
Lives to: Travel, play guitar, and creating things with a computer
Listens to: Various rock genres, classical, foreign
Jason D'Souza - Resident Code Detective and all round good guy
A Melbourne based web developer and tech enthusiast who loves all things code. The last decade has seen me learn, play and work with various languages and platforms. A compulsive learner, I currently find myself developing for the web. You'll find me busy tinkering with PHP, CSS, JQuery, Python, CodeIgniter and yes, Joomla! If I had more time on hand I would love to teach, play more soccer and read a book every day. I'm still on my first bite of the web and can never type fast enough.
Lives to: run, learn, make things better ...
Listens to: indie folk rock acoustic experimental
Seth Warburton - (semi)Professional Geek and Forum Addict
A relative newcomer to Joomla!, I love its ability to empower people with rapid self-expression. I used to hand-code XHTML and CSS, Joomla! gave me a better way to spend my time! My corporate background in product development and tech support gives me a good footing from which to troubleshoot most issues. A compulsive tinkerer, I've broken, then repaired, most OS and hardware platforms, learning along the way. As a family man, my wonderful wife and two young kids form the center of my world. Born-again Linux evangelista and FOSS advocate in my free time, I now try to make a living as a freelance web-designer.
Lives to: Learn, tweek, outwit and spend time with my kids.
Listens to: Anything good. In love with the 6 Music radio station.
Ed Hathaway - Forum mod and the godfather
Been involved since the early days of Mambo (ver.4) and have enjoyed being apart of this open source community. Currently I have over 40 Joomla websites on production servers ranging from the very small to mega sites getting millions of hits a year. I love great frameworks and the challenge of creating something unique for my clients. As an Athletic Director I work with kids everyday teaching them the values of team building and the life lessons that come from working together.
Lives to: Create, play sports, and teach
Listens to: The Beatles, kids (the real communicators) and my wife!
Barbara Rudlin - Blogger and Twitterer
I have been working in IT since the early 90's and have held just about every IT related job there is from Helpdesk, Developer, Business Analyst, Application Tester to Project Management. I run my own web consultancy company Fiery Phoenix and provide all manner of internet based services to clients around the world. I love to blog, tweet and play with my kids which just proves that I am a child at heart.
Lives to: Play with software, design stuff and talk
Listens to: Almost anything but usually the kids music, an eclectic mix of Lazy Town, Mickey Mouse and Lady Gaga.
