Toronto Internet Developers Association

The Professional Association for Toronto's Internet Developers


TIDA's 1999/2000 Official Board of Directors
Co-President
Carolyn L Burke
FSC Internet
clburke@fscinternet.com

With over 12 years experience leading and managing high profile Internet projects she is a dynamic businesswoman with a wealth of expertise. She has been intensively involved at every level from executive management to front-line development and production in a vast range of Internet projects ó from Web marketing projects to Eñcommerce programs and corporate Internetworking and Internet Security planning for topñtier corporate and public sector clients.

Her in-depth understanding of Internet issues spans a broad range, from Internet marketing and consumer behavior, to the latest online media technologies, to her International reputation as the author of Carolynís Diary and originator of the entire online diary genre. Carolyn holds an MA in philosophy in the areas of logic and computing.

Carolyn has received more than her fair share of design awards for her work as well as extensive press coverage including the cover of U.S. News & World Report. She has appeared on CBCís The National, @discovery.ca, ABCís Nightly News, Much Music, CTVís WebMania, etc., and has been featured in 24 Hours in Cyberspace, and in articles in NewsWeek, the Globe & Mail, Entertainment Weekly, Macleans, Prodigy Online, MSNís One Click Away, etc. Her photo hangs in the Smithsonian in the National Museum of American History as a tribute to and symbol of Cyberspace.

Carolyn is on the Board of Directors of the Toronto Internet Developers Association, and is spearheading a national sponsorship campaign for WebGrrls Canada. She speaks regularly at Internet World, Comdex, etc.

Co-President / Events Co-ordinator
Clinton Collier
webmaster@yourmail.com

Clinton Collier is a recent addition to the Internet having returned to school for his CNE and CIP about 6 years ago.

Clinton now works as NG Admin for Medialinx Interactive, where he runs the NetGravity adserving system for Sympatico, Yellow Pages and Canada411 websites, which serve over 100 million banners each month.

During the past two years he developed websites and applications for Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Bacardi Rum, 3M, CAA/AAA, Royal Bank, Bell Canada and others.

Clinton owns and administers a number of sites and enjoys design and sailing in his spare time.

Secretary / Treasurer
Eric Beck
Beck Web Servers & Design
erbeck@web-design.net

Eric has run Beck Web Servers & Design [BWSD] since June, 1996. He has developed extensive knowledge of the virtual server hosting industry, and his company provides virtual hosting solutions (specializing in multiple domain virtual servers) and design services to companies, both large and small. Eric has well developed web site design skills, and has implemented many Perl programmed CGI solutions for server clients. He is familiar with many web design related tools, such as HotMetalPro, NetObjects Fusion, FrontPage98, Photoshop, and PhotoPaint. As well, he has skills in Miva (HtmlScript), an HTML scripting language which employs real time database driven solutions, using XBASE compliant databases on UNIX servers.
IT Director
John Redpath
Inline Internet Systems, Inc.
johnr@inline.net

John Redpath is the Director of Web Applications at Inline Inline Internet Systems. John was the head developer for iHTML Merchant 1.0 web storefront software, and now manages the Inline web application teams. John also spent several years as Director of Web Development, participating in and managing dynamic web development projects for corporate clients. In March 1998, he was the Grand Prize winner of the Macromedia Dreamweaver "Round-Trip HTML" design contest.
Media Promotion Director
Chris Jameson
Level Ten Communications
media@levelten.net

Member at large
Robert Fabian
rfabian@rfabian.com

Past President
Russ Cobbe
Inline Internet Systems, Inc.
russc@inline.net

Russ Cobbe is president of Inline Internet Systems Inc., a provider of Internet software products including iHTML. He has worked in the computer industry for over 15 years, and has a strong background in C programming and database design to complement his business experience. Mr. Cobbe was the Vice President of Operations at Truger Technologies Inc., the largest SCO Unix distributor in Canada, before joining Inline.

Russ has a number of articles published in a variety of computer and Internet magazines and is a strong proponent of database driven dynamic web sites that deliver real value to the client and business environment. He has degrees in computer science and business administration from the University of Waterloo. Russ enjoys reading books by Dean Koontz.

 

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