Meet the team
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Paul Hilder
Paul has been working in I.T. since 1984 when, as a Metropolitan Police Officer, he was involved in the introduction of a command and control system. After receiving his Microsoft Certified Engineer certification, he wrote two books, both revolving around the implications of Information Technology in the work place. He has spent much of his career as a lecturer and leading a successful computer networking company. In addition to his management role within The Open Source Sofware Company, Paul is also a virtual I.T. Director for a leading Law Firm and an I.T. Project Manager for a major, Midlands based, Civil Engineering firm.
Helen Hilder
Helen's former career was as a computer programmer for Sainsbury's, in addition to a number of other large corporate companies. The skills acquired during her time as a programmer have been invaluable regarding the administration of the company.
Developers
Mark
Mark graduated with a degree in Software Engineering in 2004 and has been working with Open Source ever since. His primary skills include web based design (Macromedia and Adobe suite) and development (XHTML, CSS and PHP), domain and web server management, documentation and software training. A strong advocate in web standards and accessibility, Mark strives to create clean, accessible and compliant websites and graphical user interfaces when involved in any client project.
James
James currently holds a degree in Computer Systems Engineering and as such is highly capable in a large number of programming languages and IDE's including Java, PHP, C++, C, Netbeans and Eclipse. In addition to these, James is also familiar with the internal workings of database servers such as MySQL and Postgresql. James' particular talents lie in Spring (an open source application framework for the Java platform) and Hibernate (an object-relational mapping solution for the Java language).
Stefan
Stefan is in the advanced stages of obtaining a science based degree. He is an all rounder and has contributed to a wide range of the Open Source products. His skills are primarily in web design and image manipulation, though he has authored several Access based applications, including a Tender and Contract registration program.
Dominic
Skilled in multi-media and photography, Dominic is the junior member of the team. His photography skills have enhanced many of our client's websites.
Support Team
Steve
Steve previously worked as a VisualBasic programmer for a large CD production company. His knowledge in software security and operating systems is unprecedented. In addition to his excellent support capabilities, Steve is also highly proficient in the installation and maintenance of open source Linux distributions such as RedHat, Fedora Core and CentOS.
Chris
Chris has a great deal of experience, gained with several large companies, in the design, configuration and build of computers and servers. He spent more than 9 years as a senior on-site engineer with Evesham Micros, before joining Open Source.
Chris's skills have proved invaluable in the building, configuration and subsequent support of our clients' networks. He has been able to deploy his 'ghosting' skills to great effect, enabling Open Source to be able to deploy and fix client computers and servers at a much faster and less costly rate.
