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Old 06-30-2009, 08:48 AM   #1
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Who's Who on Team vB

As promised, I'd like to bring everyone up to date on the current vBulletin team, which is the largest in vBulletin's history. All together, we have a solid hundred years or so (yikes!) of engineering expertise on the team, with a experience over a huge variety of software projects, including decades of experience working on vBulletin. The support team has similar depth of experience.

First, I'd like to introduce the newest new guy, Don Kuramura, who will take the lead on vB Product Management. Don will be responsible for all things marketing - the 4.x series roadmap, new product initiatives, product marketing and business development. Don's social media expertise comes from both big companies (Sony Pictures, American Greetings Interactive) and entrepreneurial startups. He will be the primary one to work with the community to develop requirements for future vBulletin releases.

On the dev side, we are deeply appreciative of the work of all of the original vBulletin developers, including those still with us on the core team - Freddie, Darren and Jerry.

Here's the whole team roster:

Management
  • James Limm, Jelsoft Founder
  • Ray Morgan, General Manager
  • Don Kuramura, Product Manager
Engineering
  • Kevin Sours - Kevin has been with IB for three years now. Prior to joining the vBulletin team, Kevin worked with several of IB's vBulletin sites as lead developer for the Travel and Leisure group.
  • Darren Gordon - "You all know our best developer, Darren..." Okay, Darren wrote that, but in all seriousness, he's been part of the core vB team and is the chief architect of the new CMS.
  • Ed Brown - Ed got degrees in Mechanical Engineering (there weren't degrees in programming then). We won’t say when, but it was before Bill Gates founded Microsoft. PHP is currently Ed's favorite language. Ed works on the new search engine and CMS system, including all the widgets to date.
  • Freddie Bingham - With vBulletin since almost the very beginning, there's hardly a piece of vB that Freddie hasn't had a hand in.
  • Jeff Greenberg - Our newest engineer and lead UI guru.
  • Andy Huang - Andy is one of the developers from Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. and has been working on vBulletin code since 3.7. He spends most of his time working on bug fixes, but also works on some of the new features. Andy also supports vBulletin China.
  • Jerry Hutchings - One of the old-time vB developers, still responsible for Impex development.
Customer Support
  • Steve Machol - Steve has been a forum owner and Administrator since 1995 staring with Matt Wright’s WWWBoard script. In 2001 he switched over to vBulletin and soon afterwards was added to the vB staff and promoted to Customer Support Manager.
  • Wayne Luke - Wayne started with Jelsoft after being the administrator of the Sitepoint Community Forums for several years. Over time, he felt that working directly with the software being used to power large forums would be more beneficial. As such he has provided sales and service support since January 2001 and helped pioneer the telephone support services in use today.
  • Carrie Anderson - Carrie has been on the vB support team for the past year, before which she was a moderator on vBulletin.org since 2006.
  • Colin Frei - Support team member since 2005, as well as developer of a lot of Jelsoft's back-office systems.
  • George Liu - George (aka eva2000) has been on the vB staff since July 2001. Based in Australia, he is the in-house server 'guru' and has been providing help with server questions and optimization requests ever since then.
  • Jake Bunce - Support team member since 2002.
  • Zachery Woods - Support team member since 2004.
  • Kerry-Anne Peters - Support team member from January, 2007 through June 30; thanks KA!
  • Marlena Machol - Marlena Machol joined Jelsoft in March 2007 and has been working behind the scenes on link submissions and maintaining the links pages.
  • Marco van Herwaarden, vBulletin.org
  • Xiaoyu Huang, vBulletin China
  • Scott Molinari, vBulletin Germany
But wait, there's more...

In addition to this core team, we have other key players like Jennifer Rundell (VP of Content at IB) and Michael Anders, who runs close to a hundred of IB's vBulletin sites.

We also borrow as needed from other internal engineering groups, and these have included Chris Holland, Michael Clifford, David Bonilla, Prince Shah, Tully Rankin, Andrew Elkins, Pritesh Shah, and James Pestridge.

Last but not least, Team vB also enjoys the help from IB's internal QA team - Allen Lin, Meghan Sensenbach and Fei Leung.

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Old 07-01-2009, 07:53 AM   #2
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Re: Who's Who on Team vB

well that is a nice little tidbit of info, i didnt read all through ti but at least they have let everything know what the teams is and their roles.
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Re: Who's Who on Team vB

Yeah that is a good announcement post from Ray. At least it has appeased a few people, knowing exactly who is on the team now. .
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Re: Who's Who on Team vB

Well its good to know, but I still think they are heading into the wrong direction. They are taking something thats not broken and trying to change it into this huge money thing. They are going to lose tons of Vb owners. Though thats my opinion
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Re: Who's Who on Team vB

actually, vBulletin was broken... you can't see it as a client, but by many coders and developers like me, we always see the defaults and variations between vBulletin and the other platforms, and the 3.5+ serie was way too clumzy to bring profit in the near future... i'm not talking about features here, but about code... clients see the features, coders see the code.

one of the horror vBulletin always brought with it was the eval() function... one of the slowest function on the PHP engine... even if vBulletin was swift and quick for the eye, the serverside was never happy to see 20 or 50 eval calls in a file... some would say that we build faster servers nowaday... SO? do you really need to slow them down, or at the contrary try to profit from that speed?...
one of the other things that was showing the decay of vB is the template engine... table-filled, no CSS (really, calling classes is not CSS)... all the other engines had switched 2 years ago, and some of the real competitors *(money talking) are on Pure-CSS for ages... vB was planned to keep this table-filled engine until IB came to the rescue of designers...

we will see... that announcement is not something uncommon, IB always make great announcements... it calms the simple people, and it gives a chance to breath to the developers...
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Re: Who's Who on Team vB

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one of the other things that was showing the decay of vB is the template engine... table-filled, no CSS (really, calling classes is not CSS)... all the other engines had switched 2 years ago, and some of the real competitors *(money talking) are on Pure-CSS for ages... vB was planned to keep this table-filled engine until IB came to the rescue of designers...
Nexia, you can't call this a flaw. Its certainly something desirable as many prefer css for making light layouts and for easy editing the looks(not tp forget faster page rendering, flexibility to port code (if you got it right the first time! lol), but just design via css won't impact sales or make vBulletin any less competitive. Remember top websites of the world still use tables(i am sure you know the names ) and building a cross browser complaint site with plain css is not easy(far from it). How many people will be able to change css code on their own and add sidebars, double sidebars and more without breaking the style on some browser(notably old versions of IE, that is still used by many) remains to be seen.

And just from an SEO viewpoint, while the small page size is beneficial, but these two posts from Mat Cutts should give those who use tables a of mind
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