About Us

Amber is a Project Manager / Business Analyst. She leads her projects uniquely in her part-geek, part-artsy manner to see you to the finish line.

The web judoka's way is the gentle way - leading projects with a smile curvy enough to set any problem straight. She also happens to be our on-staff ukulele teacher; her work party jams have inspired many an artisan to try their hand at four strings.

Theskar is both a designer with a photographer's eye and a photographer with a designer's mind. The space between these two disciplines looks like an IKEA catalogue spread of compelling compositions. Don't worry though, he delivers designs fully assembled.

To see Theskar's talent for clear and effective communication yourself, take your browser for a wander over to the Colonversation Recipe Box or Play, Live, Be Tobacco-Free.

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.

Jim is another of our multi-talented coders with typing fingers that stretch to reach the full range of our frontend and backend development disciplines. We put some of this strengthened dexterity down to hours of catching dodgeballs and baiting out shoryukens in heated Street Fighter contests.

See some of Jim's Total Knock Out development on recent projects such as Osler and The National Guild.

Dingo is ecentricarts' mascot - a responsibility she co-shares with Malachy - and she has held this position since 2005. Her approach to the role is rather laissez-faire, having learned it as a wee puppy - sometimes she greets you, sometimes not, sometimes she barks, sometimes not.

Dingo has extraordinary telepathic powers and can tell when you are sad or glad. And, as if that weren't special enough, her paw pads smell just like nature...

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.

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!

Recently the challenge of integrating ambitious design and user experience on sites such as Canada’s History Society has kept Ling a very busy bee.

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...

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.

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...

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.  

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.

This once and former rockstar 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.

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.

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.