Getting to Know You

[Jimmy Cooper]

Hello Community Members,

Pamela brought up a good point. Since we are all familiar with the email lists, we all know eachother from our email addresses. Now we have these new-fnagled screen names and some may not recognize their list pals.

So, this thread is a chance to introduce who you are, what you do, how long you've been a "Mivite", and maybe post something people don't know about you.

I'll go first...

Name: Jimmy Cooper
What I do: I am currently the Marketing Manager here at MIVA Small Business. I am in the process of transitioning over to Product Management. You may know me best as the crazy person running around each Conference, making sure everything runs perfectly.
Mivite since: I started my career here at MIVA in 2001. Yep, I'm considered an "old-timer" around here.
Something you may not know: I'm a rabid Disney / Disneyland fan. However, if you ever see my desk, you may notice that already.

Ok, who's next?

Note: We'll move this thread over to the full forums on Wed. so we have all the info.

[Pamela Hazelton]

Name: Pamela Hazelton
What I do: Write MIVA Merchant Books, Shopability Studies, Consulting, Design/Customizations and overall anything MIVA Merchant.
Mivite since: 1998
Something you may not know: I have a web site dedicated to the Black Dahlia, and am an avid amateur photographer

[Vic - WolfPaw Computers]

Name: Vic Vega
What I do: Managing Partner of WolfPaw Computers, a rapidly growing MIVA Centric web host/e-commerce consulting company.
Mivite Since: 1998, was a long time lurker on the user lists until late 2000 when I started posting.
Something you may not know: In addition to offering superior hosting, WolfPaw Computers also offers custom MIVA scripting, application developemnt, consulting, and still serves several "break & fix" and network administration" customers locally. While I'm the name you'll see most often, our Sr. Developer Rick Fisher posts to the coders list now and then.
On a more personal note: I am an avid bowler and volunteer as a director with the local county bowling association promoting the concept of organized bowling as a sport, primarily to the youth bowlers.

And of course, I love all things wolf, including sponsoring 3 wolves at various wildlife resecue/rehabilitation/reintroduction facilities throughout the US.

[Vic - WolfPaw Computers]

Jimmy,

On a similar note, this might be a good topic for its own forum...Community Introductions.

Might give a good place for people to see who it is they are talking to, pitch their site(s) and wares.

We often see requests on the list where someone in the community is looking to purchase an item and is looking to patronize a fellow Mivite.

[Marc Anderson]

Name: Marc Anderson
What I do: Web site design, maintenance and management of several client-owned miva merchant ecommerce systems.
Mivite since: 2000
Something you may not know: Kansas born and raised. Interested in all-things Swedish, guide/escort tours to Sweden and spend time working on my 1929 Oldsmobile.

[lfreeman]

Paragon Publications

Name: Lynda Freeman
What I do: I am the owner of Paragon Publications and have been developing eCommerce solutions using Miva Merchant since 1998. I am/was a great fan of the Miva email lists but will try to contribute to the forum as loyally as I can. Been very busy with numerous version 5 Miva projects but feel free to ask for my help anytime, advice is always FREE!
Mivite since: 1998
Something you may not know: I am also casually known as the Miva Diva!

Email: [email protected]
Paragon Publications
Website: http://www.paragonpubs.com

[Julie Wilber]

Ohhh, about me - What fun!

Name: Julie Wilber
What I do: Technical Writer, but I am also working on the forums, so we could probably add community relations to it as well.
Mivite since: I'm a youngin', I just came on board at the end of October.
Something you may not know: I'll admit, I'm a gaming geek. I run a raiding guild on WoW (Horde Rules, Alex!), and am part of a raiding guild in EQ.

[ids]

Interactive Design Solutions

Name: Scott Shepard
What I do: Miva Merchant Module and script development for version 4 and 5, sponsored and customized as well as general retail at southbound.com.
Mivite since: 1998
Something you may not know: build custom fit golf clubs, huge hockey and golf enthusiat, play hockey, golf, and scratch bowler as well. And have been a San Jose Sharks season ticket holder since 1993.

[larryh]

AngelicHost

Name: Larry Hiscock
What I do: CEO of TechnoLogic Solutions, Inc., a computer services company that provides accounting, distribution and manufacturing software and custom software development to the SMB market through our Western Computer Services division; and full-service web hosting, design and e-commerce through our AngelicHost division.
Mivite since: We did our first Miva Merchant installation in 1999
Something you may not know: In my spare time (ha, right!) I volunteer as an ASL interpreter. I'm also a big hockey fan. Having been born in Montreal, but having lived most of my life in SoCal, I was terribly conflicted when the Kings played the Canadiens for the Stanley Cup a few years ago.

[chucklasker-BANNNED]

Name: Chuck Lasker, Owner, DoublePlus New Media Marketing
What I do: Ecommerce consultant, specializing in Miva Merchant stores. I have the rare combination of technical, artistic and marketing capability where I can design a highly usable, beautiful site from scratch, and still create highly tokenized code to fudge Miva Merchant into doing things it was never designed to do!
Mivite since: August '02. I started as an end-user, designing a site for the national health products company I was VP of Operations for. Through participation on the user list, people started hiring me, and I've had steady work non-stop based solely on referrals, full time for over 2 years.
Something you may not know: My son, David, who is 21, works with me full time. We have one office in my house, working back to back.
Looking towards the future: I'm also one of the owners of siteXpansion, Inc., a startup software company with plans to develop applications that not Miva-specific, but also tie into Miva Merchant.

[ldetray]

Name: Lynda DeTray
What I do: Website design and development, since 1996
Mivite since: 2001, when I started working on SnackAisle.com
Something you may not know: My goal is to lurk less and participate more. I enjoy drawing (pen and ink) and painting (watercolor) and writing (anything).

[leslienord]

Me too

Name: Leslie Nord (well, actually Leslie Kirk)
What I do: Miva Merchant site integration, web site development, web site maintenance, a little web hosting and trying help when I can.
Mivite since: 1998
Something you may not know: I like to bowl (170 average), I coach little beginning bowlers (ages 2-8), I love roses and rambling in my blog at www.leslienord.com, and Tennessee Vols football.

[DunkirkSystems]

Greetings from the Windy City!

Name: Mike Maddaloni
What I do: President and founder of Dunkirk Systems, an Internet consulting firm delivering solutions to small and mid-sized businesses, and non-profits.
Mivite since: Launched my first site in January 2005, now working on my fourth.
Something you may not know: New England Patriots season ticket holder since '93, run GoPats.com since '96, and am studying improv comedy at The Second City.

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[virtualkiwi]

Name: Christopher Cookson
What I do: Webpression web CMS system (permanently under development since the last ice age ), general web development (mostly Mivascript), Access database development.
Mivizi?o since: 1999 - It was the only active server scripting option I could get at a reasonable price at the time.
Something you may not know: I speak Portuguese almost as frequently as I do English, and am rather partial to Italian wine. I'm also pretty much self sufficient for fruit and vegetables for at least 6 months of the year.

[truXoft]

Greetings all!

Well, it is certainly nothing wrong to post the info here, but I find much better placing it directly to the profile and the signature. There are respective fields for exactly the same info we post here ;) :

Name: ............ use the signature (or your user name)
What I do: ...... use Occupation in Profile
Mivite since: ... use Biography in Profile
Something you may not know: ... use Interests in Profile

In this way, people do not need to search for you in this thread, but can view your profile by clicking your avatar at any of your posts. Just try clicking mine to see what I mean.