Andre Charland - President and Co-Founder
Andre Charland co-founded Nitobi in 1998 after working for several other Internet start-ups. As President and CEO, he is directly involved in software development and has successfully excecuted over 100 development projects. Charland was also an early proponent of the building blocks of Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), the leading technology for web application development.
Charland has spoken widely on Ajax, blogging, and web usability and is currently co-authoring a book on Enterprise Ajax for Addison Wesley. He has been quoted internationally in the media on blogging for business, and maintains his own blog at http://captainajax.com.
A graduate of Simon Fraser University with a major in Business Administration and Computer Science, Charland is on the Board of BALLE BC and co-founder of the Social Tech Brewing Co.
Dave Johnson - CTO and Co-Founder
Dave is the co-founder and CTO of Nitobi Software, a Vancouver based Ajax component vendor and consulting firm. Dave spends most of his time on architecting and building high performance Ajax components for use in web based applications. A core focus of Nitobi is building Ajax components and user interfaces that deliver real value to customers through increased productivity and higher efficiency. Dave is going to share his 8 years of Ajax (of course it wasn't called Ajax back then) knowledge in an upcoming book titled Enterprise Ajax that is to be published in early 2007.
James Douma - Senior Developer
James is an experienced software and Internet application developer with primary strengths in application and database design. While James is fluent in many technologies, his current focuses are JavaScript, C#, XML, SQL, JAVA and C++. A computer science and applied mathematics degree from York University is where James began is career in software development. James has been a software developer and systems analyst for many leading companies including the Royal Bank, Sun Microsystems and Sierra Systems. James has been the lead developer and system architect in most of eBusiness Applications’ internal and client software development projects. His work is pushing the envelope for web based software applications. He particularly focuses on client side processing and data caching to enhance interoperability, reliability and efficiency of web based applications.
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