About Us

Sarah is our frontend team lead - the bridge between our user experience and technical experts. When not baking cookies, Sarah likes to throw rocks at the curling club. Then there's also the amazing work she does for us too - see the Textile Museum of Canada or Calico Cottage. 

To the tune of Bootylicious: 
I don't think you're ready for this Pengelly
I don't think you're ready for this Pengelly
I don't think you're ready for this, cause she's way too bootilicious for ya babee!

Lars is our resident whiz and wit, with a background in theoretical physics and an appreciation for wordplay and awful puns. His brain has a gravitational field so strong, our most abstruse challenges feel instantly and fatally attracted to him.

Thanks to his stellar performance on some of our demanding technical projects, we feel proud to point you in the direction of the Hotdocs Doc Library and the Glenbow Museum website.

It's hard to miss the ease with which Darren relates creative vision to function; a comfort that comes from his cross-disciplinary abilities and the freedom they afford him to make whatever he can imagine. The comfy office sandals help too.

In between hockey, poker tournaments and lounging with his dog, Darren has had a big hand in such recent instant classics as the Textile Museum of Canada's InTouch online exhibition and Bennett Jones.

Young at heart, but a wizened veteran, Keith has more than 20 years of new media experience. In the pre-internet days (after completing his MBA) he worked at the CulTech Research Centre at York U, where he was involved in some of Canada's earliest broadband trials. After that he was a founding partner at Digital Renaisance, one of Canada's original dot-com era success stories. Since then, he's been the steady hand helping chart the course of ecentricarts, and nurturing a culture of excellence.

If you find yourself in the wilderness (literally or metaphorically) Michel will save your life with the music that lives within him. It was his rendition of Celine’s Love Can Move Mountains that saved all of those strangers from the bears in Banff.

Michel's motto: be true to yourself; and when you suddenly find yourself in front of strangers, assume that they too fear bears, and sing your heart out...

Sean is our biz-meets-tech strategist and CTO. By all accounts and appearances a teenage dot-com wunderkind, he's in fact a sixteen year veteran sage of the digital age - creating compelling internet solutions for end users and helping organizations achieve their online objectives.

In his spare time, he crafts a tasty Pinot Noir, and cooks a fine risotto...

Did you ever wonder what happened to that quiet girl in school that used to sit in the corner drawing? You wanted to know her, but didn’t want to bother her because she was focused on doing what she loved. Well, she went on to get a degree in Pure Mathematics and a Design diploma (with a specialization in awesomeness). She takes the abstract theoretical complexities of any project and expresses them in shapes and space. You will be glad that you didn’t bug her, because what she comes up with is pretty fantastic..

Late at night when his children go to bed, Dave likes to plug into the Matrix to tinker with it, just for kicks. Give him an Netduino, and he'll have a driver for an LED control panel written in a couple of hours; give him Open API and an Android phone and he'll write an app that tells you what time your streetcar is coming.

This coder extraordinare can assemble a 5.56mm assault rifle in 20 seconds, and cook for an army of 600 men without breaking a sweat.  

The challenge of integrating ambitious design and user experience has kept Ling a very busy bee. Ling works as both a backend and frontend developer and hands down has both the daintiest and fastest set of typing fingers this side of the Mississipi River (Ontario, Canada). She puts up websites so quickly that her poor cursor can barely keep up! 

Enzo holds a balanced equilibrium between frontend and backend development; which provide an outlet for his technical and creative side. This reflects on his personality as he enjoys a mix of seemingly unrelated things, from science fiction and anime, to tennis and programming design patterns. His dream guitar is a Les Paul Standard. If he had that, he'd riff and rock all day long. 

Stepanie is a creative project manager who will sing and dance to motivate the team to complete their projects. She’s our resident task master who can marshall any project to behave itself, on time, on budget, and with a smile.

When not enchanting us with an interpretive project management dance, she is known to break out in song, rocking a jazz standard or two.

A multi-talented senior tech lead, Fisseha is the only eca-artisan with a real life Mini Me named Sammy. He keeps Tropicana in business by drinking gallons of orange juice (especially when his kids are sick). 

Fisseha architects solutions with creativity and an unmatched attention to detail. He is also our resident Problem Solver. Fisseha is relentless at finding the root of issues and squashing bugs - allowing everyone to sleep peacefully at night. 

Mark is the most British person you've ever met who didn't grow up in England. He is way more talkative in French than he is in English. It's the Luxembourgian influence. 

Both a designer and a frontend developer, everything that Mark works on has panache. A true ecentricartisan, you'll be drawn to the things that he creates because he hand-crafts each item with care. It's the subtleties and the details of Mark's creations that cause end users and clients to fall in love with his handiwork. 

Born out of chaos (not really) but made to order (really), Laurie is a Project Manager / Business Analyst who likes to wrangle the details. She teams up with clients to lead projects from concept to completion. While she sometimes likes to wear a cape, the team discourages it. 

Oy vey, Yoav always saves the day!
 Yoav is a senior web application developer who wrote his first line of code at the age of 10 on a Commodore Vic20. He leads every project with creativity, hard work, humour and earnestness. The equivalent of an IT Indiana Jones, he dodges backend boulders and cracks his coding whip at any errant CMS that he may encounter. Not too shabby for a son of a motherless goat.

Day after day, this PM does a catwalk into the office and you get a sense that she has a never-ending closet of dresses and shoes. Think Minaj-Gaga style, Caribbean Queen, and Vulcan logic. You would never think of putting those things together, but it works, and it works well. She is quick to respond, and organized, well prepared and always stay on top of things. She will run your project like a heavyweight champ, while always staying a lady.

This indie rocker has a background in the arts, museums and jewelry making. Kim also has a fondness for the finer things in life.

If you met her at a party you would never guess that she was a web developer, but she is, she's ours, and we love her. Being only partial geek is what makes her amazing at what she does; she rocks the code, then can explain it in plain English. 

John is our resident .NET expert. When he isn't fulfilling his role as eca's .NET mountain top guru, he can be found in the Valley of Continuing Education, teaching programming best practices to the next generation's best and brightest.

With a propensity to withdraw to the wilderness for long treks on weekends, he returns to the city recharged, searching for WiFi and non-instant coffee. Thinking his hiking equipment makes him reminiscent of a tech Ghostbuster? You'd be right - John ain't afraid of no localhost.

Linda is happiest when she is being creative and sharing her thoughts, so being an art director comes very naturally to her. With a background in fine arts and painting, she quickly realized that the term "starving artist" was accurate and decided to cross over to the digital side. When she isn't designing or hovering over a designers' desk, she is teaching interactive design at Humber College, making infographics or taking photos of her baked goods.

Antonio works in the grey area where frontend meets backend, where CSS, Javascript, JSON, and .NET stew it up to make a spicy meat-a-bohl!

In his spare time Antonio is a jock and a musician. He will swim far and fast, and scale tall buildings in a single bound. He jams on the guitar with his cugino and makes music with digital signal processing, laying down phat beats. 

Michael is ecentricarts' head of application development. The boy from Belfast came to Canada with nothing but a guitar, and a geeky mind. He can architect your solution, or if he feels really inspired, write you a lovely song (his voice may be lilting but he can code like a butterfly and sting like a bee).  Michael has worked in hardware, software development and all aspects of web (front, back, side, seedy underbelly).

Jen’s love of design and wireframes is perhaps a result of years spent developing her advanced etch-a-sketching skills. At ecentricarts Jen focuses on designing user interfaces for non-etch-a-sketch platforms in her role as senior user experience designer.

Hailing from Brisbane Australia, globetrotter and all-round top bloke Nigel makes up the antipodean quotient of the ecentricarts Commonwealth Contingent. 

A talented backend and frontend developer with a tireless conviction (he never ever chucks a sicky), Nigel also posesses a keen entrepreneurial spirit. Driven to see ideas come to life, a casual conversation over a vegemite sammie at lunch soon develops into a rapid prototype or online experiment. 

Not more than a year ago Viktoriya laced up a pair of skates and stepped out on to her first ice-skating experience. After gingerly making her way around the rink beaming from ear to ear, she called out to her friends “I love it! But how do I go faster!?” Viktoriya is never short of enthusiasm or ambition.

When not skating up a storm, Viktoriya enjoys exploring the city on foot, studying up on programming techniques and podcasting her experiences discovering Canada through Russian eyes.

Oh the pain, the pain, of unrequited love...

You love Mally but Mally loves food. Ok, he loves you a little bit too but he'll love you more if you have a Milkbone. You can find Mally sniffing around desks looking for open backpacks with food inside of them. Part of our well-being program at ecentricarts, no one can feel stressed after hanging out with Mally. Once fed, he likes to lay down to have his belly scratched, or to lick your hands again and again. 

The token Jamaican bringing the Jamaican flavour to ECA - "No Problem Man".  With a wide range of skills, Dwayne is always energized, ready to program and willing to learn more. Simply put, Dwayne was born to be a backend developer.

A former middle manager in the industrial equipment sector – Dennis traded his desk job for….another desk job – only this one involves the ever-fascinating job of weaving together HTML5 code frameworks and languages into an end product that our clients have come to appreciate.

When not buying plaid shirts on Ebay – Dennis can be found spending time with the family and raising his children to appreciate the importance of tightly formatted Object Oriented CSS.

Lisa is a project manager that thrives in the beautiful world where art meets technology, where spreadsheet meets action, and where project management meets QA.

Nicknamed Little Boss, she has two great loves: Hardball and hairballs (major league baseball and kitty cats). To her work this means organizational skills and team collaboration. In other words the ability to cover all of the bases, and the ability to herd cats.

Picture this: you’re two long days into the wilderness. You're splitting firewood when you whip a hatchet into your leg — right to the bone. Most of us would panic, but not Kyle. This project manager is always cool headed both in work and in life. He doesn't usually wield a hatchet at work, unless he needs to make certain your project doesn't get into the woods.

Kathryn crushes it when it comes to the Frontend and Kentico integration. Founder of both our weekly ecentricarts Salad Club and Bake off, she always has a way of pulling the community together.  In short, we think she is freakin’ awesome. Practiced in the art of non-conformity, she has lived just outside of the Shire in middle earth among the endangered Kiwi bird.

In a chaotic crowd outside the Stadio Olimpico in Rome in 2005, Cassie was struck by a random coin with a 4-leaf clover on it. This was just one event in a life-long windfall of luck that has followed Cassie around. But it isn’t just luck that brings goodness — it’s a combination of gratitude, generosity, and respect that makes good things happen. Cassie is an inspired and talented designer who wants to make a positive and meaningful impact. To be able to do this at work is a dream come true for her and for that, we are all lucky that she is here.

Maria is a world traveling PM that lives true to her heart. That might mean trekking in the Great Western Desert, scuba diving with giant manta rays in the Maldives, dancing in Ibiza, cheffing up a feast for her friends. Or, as you will most likely see her, driving the team together to collaborate and action to ensure that your project is successful. She does all these things with equal enthusiasm, discipline and diligence, always trying to give more to others than she takes.

Once upon a time there was a paperboy named Simon in Hertfordshire. He loved cool things that could go fast and far, so as he grew older he studied physics, and creative design. He became a rocket scientist. He learned how to fly planes. He learned how to figure skate. In his spare time he taught himself how to code web applications and software. No more orbits and celestial mechanics for Simon, he builds things that move fast and far at the speed of the internet.

You might find Kristin in front of 88 keys playing Bach and Mozart in the same manner that she lives her life; with an elegant ease of touch, but never for the sake of display. You might find her curled up with a book, in a Warrior I pose, picking up her two fantastic kids, or beefing up her MA in Information Sciences with UX and IA skills. The key to Kristin is her versatility. Ask her her favourite colour... wait for a bit... then ask her again. She adjusts according to whatever light is shining on and around her — and it always shines brightly.