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The Members of TeamB |
Yorai Aminov - Delphi
Yorai's Page
Jim Bailey - C++/C++Builder
Alex Bakaev - C/C++Builder
Alex was born in Kishinev, Moldavia, USSR. He received a BA in Computer Science from the Leningrad Institute of Railway Engineers & Moscow State University of Communication Means.
In 1990, Alex moved to Canada (Toronto) and worked as a security officer, a floor scrubber, a painter, and a burger flipper. Later on, he worked writing video capture and multimedia acceleration drivers. During this time, Alex did some work for Microsoft in Redmond writing video capture drivers for the new WDM (Windows Driver Model) - Win98/NT5. When Alex was offered the option to work for MS in Redmond or a small company in Santa Barbara, he chose Santa Barbara.
Alex is currently employed by JetFax Inc., manufacturer of multi-function producst (fax/printer/scanner/copier in one.)
Alex lives in Santa Barbara with his wife and dog. In his spare time he enjoys hanging out in the Borland forums, driving his very fast car, going to the beach, reading, and swimming.
Kurt Barthelmess - Delphi
Peter Below - Delphi
Peter Below has a PhD in organic chemistry. He works for a large pharmaceuticals company in the Medicinal Chemistry department doing not much programming and lots of PC work. Peter started programming PCs as a hobby and has not tired of it yet.
Jerry Bloomfield - C++/C++Builder
Jerry currently lives in suburban Chicago, with his wife Ellen, and their two dogs (no children yet, but the dogs are as spoiled as any 2 year old he's ever met [g]). He received his B.S. in Physics from Purdue University, where he was bitten by the computer bug. He started working for the University Computing Center while still a student, then he graduated and was forced to find a real job.
He worked for almost 10 years for a small company, A.C. Nielsen, in their manufacturers Coupon Processing Center. During this time, Jerry attained the official title of "Techno Weenie" for his ability to "do the impossible" with computers. Just over a year ago, he left Nielsen's to work for his current employer, Deluxe Video Services, where he gets to put his technical abilities to the test along with his programming to help produce the videos you rent or buy to watch on your VCRs at home. (No, he can't get you a free copy of that movie you've been wanting, but he might be willing to trade you for it [g].) He has been working heavily in C for the last 10 years or so, and within the last few years has begun the process of learning how to "think" in C++.
William Burke - Delphi
William Burke graduated from Concordia College, Seward, NE, with a BS in Biology in December 1987. He is currently working as a Programming Manager for Catellus Residential Group/RHI Consulting. In his spare time William enjoys composition and performance of music for the guitar, sea/surf kayaking, rock climbing, camping, and working as a counselor for a church youth group.
Bill's World
Brian Bushay - Delphi
Mark Cashman - C++/C++Builder
Mark Cashman is currently a technologist for the eBusiness / eTechnology division
of MassMutual Financial Group in Springfield MA.
Mark has been developing software for 30 years - he started programming at
age 11, in an astronomy class at Talcott Mountain Science center. Since then,
he has programmed on a wide variety of platforms (Nova minicomputers, IBM mainframes,
HP, Prime, and Microdata minicomputers, Sun workstations, Amiga and IBM-compatible
personal computers), operating systems (IBM DOS and MVS, Pick, Unix (and X),
Amiga OS, MSDOS, MSWindows) in a variety of languages (COBOL, RPG, assembly,
Basic, Pick Basic, Algol, Modula-2, Rexx,
C, C++, Icon) for a wide variety of industries (basic science, manufacturing,
mail order, insurance, pensions, appraisal, software development tools, geographic
information systems and eCommerce /
eBusiness). He has also managed teams of various sizes, has led R&D efforts
in development tools and methodologies, led in-house training efforts for a
large software development firm, and was an adjunct professor of Computer Graphics
Art for Springfield College for two years.
In addition to being a software developer, he is an artist, writer, musician,
composer, and rock climber. Mark also operates The
Temporal Doorway, a large web site featuring his artwork, writings, and
articles on software development (C++Builder and JBuilder). He is also the founder
and ringmaster of the C++ Builder Programmer's Webring.
Mr. Cashman currently resides in Windsor, Connecticut with his wife, a fish,
many visiting birds, an occasionally visiting daughter, and more computers than
there are people in the house.
Damon Chandler - C++/C++Builder
Damon has been programming computers even since he received his first $1700
XT back in the 80's. He has been using Borland products for more than a decade
now; it was a combination of C++ and the VCL that got him hooked on C++Builder.
Damon holds a B.S. in biomedical engineering and an M.Eng in Electrical Engineering.
After working for several goverment contractors, he decided to return to research,
where he is currently investigating new medical image compression algorithms.
On his days off, Damon can be found on the ski slopes or the golf course.
Michael Day - Delphi
Mike Day takes the fifth.
Backwater Home Page
Gillmer Derge - JBuilder
Joi Ellis - JBuilder
Joi stumbled across a time-shared teletype hooked to the local high school's PDP-8e in 1975 while in junior high school, and has been working with computers ever since. She has a B.S. in Computer Science from Western Illinois University, and has lived and worked in California, Illinois, and Minnesota.
Her professional positions have covered the gamut from writing A/D drivers for the IBM XT (with edlin!) to managing a 13-building university network and developing database applications, to managing Fortune 500 outsourced email systems.
Her hobbies include canoe paddling, angling, nethack, and mushing. (That's mushing as in on-line roleplay, no sled dogs are involved!)
Steven Fischkoff - Delphi
Paul Franks - JBuilder
Tad Frysinger - JBuilder
Tad Frysinger is Director of Technology for FreeZone Enterprises, a firm specializing in launching Internet technology start-up companies. Tad has been involved with developing software for various industries for over eighteen years, and has authored several commercial software libraries. For the past eight years, Tad has focused on software engineering and construction using object-oriented methodologies. He has been a frequently requested speaker, invited to technical conferences both in the U.S. and abroad, including ICon98 in Denver.
Paul Furbacher - JBuilder
After finishing his Ph.D. in biophysics, Paul realized 1) he was too old to do the tenure battle, 2) he had no interesting research ideas needed for that battle, and 3) he enjoyed solving problems in a matter of days instead of years or possibly never (you should read his thesis -- after 30 years, the problem still wasn't solved!). So, he turned to the only thing he was marginally qualified to do -- write software.
Fortunately, most of his time in grad school was spent writing software to connect machine to computer, and to analyze the resulting bits. Unfortunately, those bits weren't very revealing. To make matters worse, his parents had a hard time describing to their friends what he did: "Well, he says he puts lots of spinach in a blender, and then when that's done, he shines light on it!?"
After leaving the spectophotometers and all the ground-up spinach behind, he wrote educational software, but when the university saw fit to de-fund that effort, he did the only thing left for a programmer -- he became a contractor, writing server-side Java for the financial industry.
Somehow, it's all kind of difficult to square with the Peace Corps thing of teaching Swazi kids about agriculture and science some 20 years ago. Oh, where did he go so wrong?
Jody Hagins - C++/C++Builder
Jody lives in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. with his beautiful wife of nine years, Sue, and their children, Joshua and Jessica with (either Jacob or Julia) on the way. He received a B.S. in each of Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of South Carolina, and a M.S. in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University. After a decade of working for very large software companies, he is currently employee #12 at Automated Trading Desk, a firm specializing in stock market modeling.
He has been programming seriously in C++ for the better part of seven years, predominantly under various UNIX platforms. He was introduced to windows programming by C++Builder, and currently develops exclusively under that platform, even for applications which will be deployed on UNIX boxes. When he is not programming, he can be found playing, coaching, and officiating football, basketball, baseball, and anything else that generates adrenaline. His current vice is golf.
John Herbster - Delphi
"JohnH" ran the Mass Spectrometry Lab for the University of Texas Chemistry department and got a degree in Physics back in 1961. After designing spacecraft electronics at Hughes Aircraft for a few years, he went back to EE and CS graduate school at Purdue University, where he picked up programming under Halstead and Rosen and industrial control theory and practice under Ted Williams. This was followed by a lot of electronics, instrumentation, and computer system design work for the Boeing Company, DOD, Southern Pacific Railroad, and Shell Oil Company. Today he is doing contract work mainly for the petroleum industry.
He is an expert on analog and digital electronics, computer modeling, real time scientific and engineering data system design, chromatography analysis, and several ASTM methods for measuring petroleum properties and computing round-robin results. And he-enjoys showing youngsters the beauty of science and engineering.
Nick Hodges - Delphi
Nick Hodges was born in Baltimore, MD, but considers himself a Minnesotan after a move to Minneapolis at age twelve. He graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, MN with a degree in Classical Languages and a year of graduate work in Education. In June of 1987 Nick entered the Navy's Aviation Officer Candidate School. After basic training and several postings, he attended the Naval Postgraduate School, receiving a Masters Degree in Information Technology Management. Nick lives in Belleville, IL, with his wife Pamela, daughter Piper and son Quaid.
Nick began programming in 1991 with the original Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.0. Mostly self taught, he writes shareware, components, and dabbles in database applications. He also has written documentation for a number of Delphi-based products. Nicks most well known component is the utterly useless TSmiley component, made famous the world over by David Intersimone. Nick joined TeamB in September of 1995 with the Delphi team. He prides himself on never having written a DOS based program, and knowing almost nothing about C++.
Harold Howe - C++/C++Builder
Harold lives in Iowa with his wife Andrea and his son Nathan. Harold received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State in 1994. He began using BCB in 1996, after using Turbovision, BC++4.5 and OWL, and BC++5. Harold co wrote "C++Builder How-To" from the Waite group, and he is currently creating BCBDEV.COM, a C++Builder related web site. Harold's favorite hobby is ice hockey.
Remy Lebeau - C++/C++Builder
Remy is a former Art student from the USA, and has been programming in C/C++ for several years. Though C++ is his primary programming language (with a focus in VCL programming and usage in particular), Remy is also familiar with Java, Visual Basic, Object Pascal, Perl, Javascript, VBScript, and ASP. Remy runs Lebeau Software, which also hosts Remy's personal web site, including samples of his artwork.
Thomas Maeder - C++/C++Builder
About Thomas Maeder
John McGrath - JBuilder
John McGrath was born in the United States but grew up amongst the oil fields of Venezuela. He eventually made his way back to the United States for high school, where he first started programming using BASIC on an ASR33
Teletype. He hasn't stopped programming since, although he had no access to a computer for several of those years.
He moved to the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania to study Mathematics and Information Science at Lehigh University. After a brief stint in the Washington, D.C. area, he returned to the Lehigh Valley where he now lives with his wife Ann and his daughter Margret.
John has been developing cross-platform applications for his entire career, which began when the common wisdom was that it could not be done. He has spent most of that time developing publishing software for the newspaper
business.
His first Borland product was Turbo Pascal 4, he learned C++ programming with Turbo C++ 1.0, and he currently does most of his software development in Java with JBuilder.
John B. Moore - JBuilder
John B. Moore, owner and systems analyst/developer at Micro-Phyla Systems, has a B.A. in Biology, with minors in Mathematics and Chemistry and a Lifetime Secondary Teaching Credential in science and mathematics . He has been programming in a variety of languages for 9 years specializing in database analysis, design and development. He has worked with Paradox since 1988 , Delphi since it shipped in 1995 and Jbuilder (Java) since it shipped, also SQL database servers; InterBase, Oracle and MS SQL Server.. As a member of TeamB (Team Borland) and Ctech (Corel Technician) on both Compuserve Information Services and the Internet Borland newsgroups, he assists other users in using and understanding Borland and Corel products. John is member of the Oracle Developer Program, a technical speaker at Borland's 1993 and 1998 Conferences. He is also an instructor for Softbite Intl's "Delphi World Tour" and President and one of the founding members of the San Diego Delphi Users Group (SDDUG), were he maintains the SDDUG website as its webmaster.
Ed Mulroy - C++/C++Builder
Ed Mulroy is an electrical engineer, working on embedded hardware and software designer, who also does application software. He enjoys analog hardware and embedded C/C++/Assembly the most but also does digital design and application software. Ed has a wife, two kids and a cat, and he is happiest while rafting through white water or kayacking in the Jersey surf.
Wayne Niddery - Delphi
Wayne has been a professional developer for over 15 years in a variety of hardware, languages and applications. He tried using Turbo Pascal 5.5 on the advice of a friend and has used successive versions ever since. He is a co-author of the Borland Delphi How-To and acted as a technical editor for the Delphi 3 SuperBible. Wayne is currently an independent developer using Delphi as his primary tool.
Dave Nottage - Delphi
Dave is an independent software consultant who lives near, and works in
Adelaide, Australia, He specializes in Delphi, however he also dabbles in
JBuilder, and C#.
He has written a number of community articles, was co-author (with John
Kaster) of the Invokamatic eXtreme toy for Delphi 6, and has been a
presenter at BorCon in Australia.
When he's not with his laptop programming or answering questions in the chatroom or newsgroups, Dave
likes to go to the movies, live music gigs and generally make a nuisance of
himself. He lives with his daughter, Jessica, 2 cats, 2 guinea pigs, 1 budgerigar
(a type of bird), and a goldfish.
Lori Olson - JBuilder
David Orriss - JBuilder
David is a former Borland Employee: He worked as a Senior Engineer in the Paradox Developer Support Group for 4 years. During his tenure at Borland he worked on various projects including the development of the Custom Configuration Program for Paradox for DOS 4.0 and 4.5. He was also the Technical Editor for the Alan Zenreich and Jim Kocis book "PAL By Example". Prior to being a member of the JBuilder TeamB group he was a TeamB member for Paradox and then Delphi.
David is the Ringmaster for the JBuilder Webring. A group of websites that are dedicated providing information and insights into JBuilder Development.
David currently resides in the Seattle, Washington area. He currently is a Senior Software Engineer for the ALSTOM ESCA Corporation. More information can be found at http://www.esca.com/. He is married and has two children (a daughter and a son).
Jeff Overcash - InterBase
Deborah Pate - Delphi
Deborah Pate is a history graduate who has worked mainly in publishing; her particular interest is 17th-19th century radical religious sects. But since developing intestinal lymphangiectasia she has had more free time to spare for such frivolous pursuits as programming, which she started in 1996 with Delphi 2.
Robert Schieck - InterBase
Craig Stuntz - InterBase
Craig has been using Borland languages since picking up Turbo C in high school.
His first programming job was writing simulations of nuclear physics experiments
for one of the universities he attended. After graduation, he worked for a long
series of non-profit organizations (most
of them intentionally so) before settling down at Vertex Systems Corporation,
a company which serves non-profits, but is still for-profit enough to have decent
management.
Outside of work, Craig spends his time restoring a century-old house in Columbus,
OH's historic German Village neighborhood, writing music, and practicing yoga.
Deepak Shenoy - Delphi
Deepak Shenoy is the Director of Technology at Agni Software, a technology
software provider and solutions developer in Bangalore, India. He's grappled
with several programming languages over 10 years, the most gory details
being in Cobol, PDP-11 Assembly and Basic of Visual descent. Having finally
settled on Delphi, Deepak uses it to build and manage business automation
solutions for companies worldwide.
A few years ago, Deepak finished his B.E. from KREC, Surathkal, and after a
couple of jobs, decided it was time to go the start-up route. Luckily, he
survived. He's now working with SOAP, XML and .NET - all in Delphi, and
writes articles and papers on these technologies. Deepak spends his
non-programming time karting, bowling or thinking of new novel ideas to lose
weight. You can reach Deepak at shenoy@agnisoft.com
Bill Todd - Delphi
Bill Todd is President of The
Database Group, Inc., a database consulting and development firm based near
Phoenix. He is co-author of four books and the author of over 60 articles on
database programming. Bill is a Contributing Editor to Delphi Informant, and
a frequent speaker at Borland Developer Conferences in the U.S. and Europe.
He is also a member of Team Borland and a nationally known trainer who has taught
Delphi programming classes across the country and overseas. He can be reached
at bill@dbginc.com.
Chris Uzdavinis - C++/C++Builder
Chris has been programming computers since 1980, when he was 7 years old. Self-taught
in AppleSoft BASIC early on, he eventually graduated Cum Laude with a B.S. in
Computer Science from the University of Idaho. After graduation, he remained
in Idaho for over 2 years, developing a web server called InfoArk (www.fsr.com)
and working on projects for Fujitsu and Chrysler as well. His major areas of
interest are genetic programming, C++ in general, and efficiency (both implementation
and algorithmic.)
In December 1998 he and his wife Suzy moved to South Carolina for a job (as employee #16) with Automated Trading Desk in Mt. Plesant, SC. (www.atdesk.com) He is now happily working in the financial industry working with and developing computer models of the stock market. Most development is targeted for Linux, but C++ Builder is the development tool he uses for its strong ANSI complience and friendly debugging envrionment. He lives in Charleston, SC with his wife Suzy, a cockatiel named Chaz, and their two kittens ACE and Corba. Chris has been a member of TeamB since June 1998.
Rudy Velthuis - Delphi
Rudy is a Dutch dentist, living in Germany and working in his own clinic,
with a strong interest for Pascal since he first encountered it, when he
was still a student. He has been using Borland products since Turbo
Pascal 3, and uses Delphi mainly for the speed and the elegance of the
language. He is also interested in other languages, including assembler,
C and C++.
Mike Williams - Delphi
Mike has been using Borland products since Turbo Pascal 3.0 and has used
Delphi exclusively since the very early days of Delphi 1.0. He has a
Master's degree in Information and Computer Science from the Georgia
Institute of Technology and has found that it can be quite educational to
help others in the newsgroups. Mike is the senior programmer for Advanced
Productivity Software, Inc.
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen - JBuilder
Brian Withnell - C++/C++Builder
Brian Withnell has been involved with computers since his high school days over 25 years ago (storing programs on paper tape, and using a 110bps modem to connect to a mainframe). He has worked in various companies and now is Director, Information Technology for NORCOM Networks. He loves his God, wife, children (any children for that matter) and computers. He has been a Borland fan since Turbo Pascal 1.0 -- for CP/M. And Joined TeamB on the GEnie (tm) service many years ago.
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