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.

[DesignExtend-MSI]

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]

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: webmaster@paragonpubs.com
Paragon Publications
Website: http://www.paragonpubs.com

[Julie Wilber]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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 (http://www.leslienord.com), and Tennessee Vols football.

[DunkirkSystems]

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 (http://www.GoPats.com) since '96, and am studying improv comedy at The Second City.

mp/m

[virtualkiwi]

Name: Christopher Cookson
What I do: Webpression web CMS system (permanently under development since the last ice age :rolleyes: ), 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 (http://extranet.miva.com/forums/profile.php?do=editsignature) (or your user name)
What I do: ...... use Occupation in Profile (http://extranet.miva.com/forums/profile.php?do=editprofile)
Mivite since: ... use Biography in Profile (http://extranet.miva.com/forums/profile.php?do=editprofile)
Something you may not know: ... use Interests in Profile (http://extranet.miva.com/forums/profile.php?do=editprofile)

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.

[keli]

Name: Keli
What I do: Mostly SEO. I head and founded the SEO unit for one of the biggest attorney portals online. I've run my own company since 1998 doing SEO, ECom development, and Web design.
Mivite since: 1999 - first site was featured in Parade Magazine.
Something you may not know: We were the first home in America to have fiber optics laid to it; 24 strands of single mode fiber with Sun Microsystems running the game. Our ISP moved more data through my home than any other at the time. We've since bought up most our competition and had experts come in and run it. Now? I went back to consulting. Less hectic.

[Dan Wellcoolstuff]

Name: Dan Coop
What I do: Run the entire IT side of a mail order company which sells products which are more than likely illegal in the USA. (site is NSFW)
Mivite since: 1998
Something you may not know: I'm self taught and didn't know anything about webdesign when i set up my site, we now have 15 staff.

[Ashish]

Name: Ashish Jain
What I do: Working in java/j2ee projects. Currently with major insurance company. Also involved in miva store as part time.
Mivite since: 2005
Something you may not know: I am core java programmer. Don't be surprised, if i launch something like jiva :), java version of miva.

[Keith Hunniford]

Name: Keith Hunniford
What I do: Hmm. That's a good one. Currently enjoying not doing much of anything.
Mivite since: Oh - long time.. I was an HTMLScriptite back before MIVA was Miva.
Something you may not know: I no longer work for MIVA. Julie and I decided that this thread was as good a time as any to spread that word. I left MIVA at the end of last week on very good terms having spent 18 months on the "inside". It was fun and I'm very happy with the direction the company is going in, and glad that I played a part in it. Some people just are not cut out for Corporate America, and 18 months was what I had in me before deciding that it would be best for all if I parted ways.
Something non-work you might not know about me: I'm a closet rockstar.. http://www.soundclick.com/almostsane

Keith

[Dave Slifka]

Name: Dave Slifka
What I do: Design, primarily for the web
Mivite since: Last August
Some things you may not know: I am a complete Fantasy Football nut, which drives Jimmy CRAZY! I also watch a whole lot of movies and am addicted to sushi.

[Dramatic]

Been hacking mivascript since - um, I lost count but it was last millennium. Never done merchant, but have written several bespoke e-commerce systems with special requirements, which may one day evolve into something marketable. My business, Dramatic Design, is now part time - Webfarm took me on full time as lead developer so I spend my days bugfixing, enhancing and rewriting our domain registry engine and group websites.

Things you may not know: (1) I blow things up as a sideline - I'm a licensed pyrotechnician, doing 2-3 firework displays a year. (2) I'm getting married on May 7th (3) yes of course the wedding will have fireworks!

[2chicks]

Name: Holly Nelson, One of Two Computer Chicks (which is actually two chicks with three assistant chicks and a dude for programming located in four states.)
What We do: Since 1996, Miva Merchant site integration, web site development, web site maintenance, a little web hosting and serious SEO.
Something you may not know: I love to garden...just got in my early spring crops, homeschool my gifted son (soon to be another computer dude), do tricks on the trampoline.:p

[Gulfcoast]

Name: Tim Raisbeck
What I do: Co-Owner with my twin brother of Charlotte's Saddlery in Houston, Texas. We cater to the English and Western rider with extensive lines of tack, apparel and equipment.
Mivite since: 2005
Something you may not know: Grew up in Kansas City, one of five children. Been married to the most wonderful woman, Christy since 1989. Two kids, Austin and Kendall.

[sebenza]

Name: Scott Zielinski
What I do: MivaScript & Module Development.
Mivite since: 1998
Something you may not know: My last name is not Sebenza and my first name is not Steve :p For real though... Im married, 1 3 yr old son, 1 being planned, 2 dogs, 5 fish and 2 snails. And... I love WPT.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

What enquiring minds want to know...
Name: Bruce Golub
What I do: Sr. Partner, Phosphor Media.com. A full service e-commerce development company which also produces some of the most well know Merchant 3rd Party products. Notably StoreMan, Merchant Optimizer and Merchant Moogle. I mostly now manage the company, still do a little mivascript and the occasional custom module, but mostly reasponsible for putting a face on Phosphor Media. Have worked with internet based technologies since I saw a beta version of the Mosiac browser. Worked on my first e-commerce site in 1995.
Mivite since: About two months before Merchant 2.0 was being released, as we dumped everything we had done for 1.0 and used 2.0. (About seven years...but I'm note good with dates--ask my wife).
Something you may not know:
Something non-work you might not know about me: Avid (close to rabid, but only in passion) cook, house remodeler, and soccer coach. Have two wonderfull kids: Max (12) and Zoe (10) and one exceptionally wonderful wife (Kelly--age withheld by request, but most think she is 30).

[julie_thompson]

Name: Julie Thompson
What I do: I am the President, webdesigner (I use that term somewhat loosely), SEO, customer service rep and order manager of Ultimate Nourishment, hosted with DotCom Host.
Mivite since: Aug 2003 when I taught myself HTML and MIVA, which I may not have accomplished without the gurus of this group.
Something you may not know: I am a co-list owner of the Epi Guardian Angels, which is an online 'canine epilepsy' e-mail group. Where I help other epi-parents cope and manage seizures in their dogs.

[Leanne]

Name: Leanne Chambers
What I do: I am a paralegal and co-owner/webdesigner/SEO/bookkeeper/and chief-cook-and-bottle-washer of an electric guitar parts ecommerce site
Mivite since: 2004 when I taught myself HTML and Miva so that my husband could do something he loved for a change
Something you may not know: I am a gourmet cook, an avid fishkeeper, and I love to garden.

[rsavoia]

Name: Rick Savoia
What I do: Owner of Savoia Computer, a company that specializes in custom built PCs and laptops, computer upgrades and repairs and Home and Small Office networks.
Mivite Since: I do not recall the exact year. I used Miva Merchant since 2.0 and occassionally visited the list archives but did not actually join the list until sometime later and was a lurker until very recently.
Something you may not know: spent 14 years in broadcasting before starting my own computer business. I created the first online shopping mall BBS in Florida in 1986, before the Internet was publicly available. I did e-commerce well before Miva was created. I operated it on a Commodore 64. It was very secure as the orders and credit card information were stored on cassette tape.
Other interests include reading, writing, biking, my family and I keep tabs on the Orlando Magic although I will probably attend games in the future if they ever get serious and try to make the playoffs.

[Funky Monkeys]

My name is Lina and I just opened a store. I think this is a great way to network and to also meet people.

[netblazon]

Is anyone else having trouble remembering to come out here? It's been like 3 weeks I think!

What I do: Co-owner of NetBlazon (http://www.netblazon.com) ecommerce development firm, co-owner of WonderBrains online toystore (http://www.wonderbrains.com)
Mivite Since: 2000
Something you may not know: I stumbled into computers after I seriously considered a career in entomology. I'm actually published too (http://entweb.clemson.edu/people/faculty/morsepubs.htm) (scroll to #51... Daniels, S.M. is me before I got married)
On a more personal note: I love to sing, play the piano, cross-stitch, play with my kids, and read.

[immy79]

Name: Jimmy Cooper
What I do: Still trying to figure all of that out...
Mivite since: May 2001 when I started working for the fabulous Miva Corporation.
Something you may not know: In addition to my previous admission of being a Disney nerd, I also enjoy gardening, feeding my enormous cat Ashley (she enjoys it, too), and helping my friends and family out with random things.

[leslienord]

"immy79" - immy? :p

[immy79]

It's a nickname from high school... :)

[jason - jmh web services]

Name: Jason Henderson
What I do: Doing seo and web development since 1996. Specializing in Miva Merchant search engine optimization, marketing, and development since 1999. I maintain the largest Miva Merchant module comparison directory (http://www.jmhonline.net/mivamerchantmodules), several free newsletters (http://www.jmhonline.net/mivamerchant-newsletters.html) for store owners on seo & marketing and more, run Miva Regional User Group Meetings (http://www.jmhonline.net/mvregister), and a Miva Merchant flash tutorial site (http://www.merchanthowto.com).
Mivite since: 1999 (passed on it in 1996)
Something you might not know about me: Former actor/model from Los Angeles with co-starring credits on Hangin w/Mr. Cooper. Proud father of Piggly Wiggly and Bunkins.
http://www.jmhonline.net/images/piggly-lying-on-bunkins-small.jpg (http://www.jmhonline.net/images/piggly-lying-on-bunkins.jpg)

[eliboone]

Name: Elijah (Eli) Boone
What I do: IT Manager for a small company that has 3 small animal supply websites. Take care of every bit of computer related work for the company including our 3 Miva 4 stores, networking, web design, hardware/software upgrades. Mivite since: 2003 Something you might not know about me: I have one blue and one hazel eye. Love powerlifting, running, Star Wars toys, and playing World of Warcraft when time allows it. Currently pursuing Bachelors in Networking from Kaplan University online.

[chucklasker]

Name: Elijah (Eli) Boone
What I do: IT Manager for a small company that has 3 small animal supply websites. Take care of every bit of computer related work for the company including our 3 Miva 4 stores, networking, web design, hardware/software upgrades. Mivite since: 2003 Something you might not know about me: I have one blue and one hazel eye. Love powerlifting, running, Star Wars toys, and playing World of Warcraft when time allows it. Currently pursuing Bachelors in Networking from Kaplan University online.

You forgot the most important thing people may not know about you - the company you work for, J & J, is owned by cousins of mine. Now THAT is a small world. :D

[eliboone]

Sorry Julie, I'm an Alliance kind of guy. I must destroy all horde. :)

Hey Chuck, Ya that is crazy. Definitely is a small world.

Eli

[Wendy]

Name: Wendy
What I do: Since closing my retail store and moving out of the State of New York, full time webmaster for my own business, as well as web design for real "paying" clients (woohoo).
Mivite since: May 2002 when I quit my job as Controller for the largest construction company in New York City to start my own business.
Something you may not know: I am a CPA in the Commonwealth of Virginia, although I've let my license lapse since I haven't practiced in Virginia in a very long time, my certification is valid and only need some continuing education credits to get my license reinstated in the state I currently live in (but probably won't, I like web design way better than counting beans & I get to work from home in my PJ's :p )

[seahawkfan]

Name: Rick Belieu

What I do: Besides working fulltime for an Ammunition manufacturer, I am starting my first online store. Alot of work. Learning all aspects of web design. (very slowly I might add)

Something you might not know about me: Love Tattoo's, heavy metal music, Motorcycles, and am a 22 year Retired Army veteran

[klassic]

Name: Brian Bozinovich (aka Klassic)
What I do: I designed and maintain the miva site for GreekClothing.com. I am not that good at HTML and Miva, but we are growing. I also do all the computer maintenance in our office. I work part time at grocery store for insurance.
Mivite since: Summer 2004 when I met my boss, who was also working at said grocery store, and told him, "Your website sucks and is really hard to use."
Something you may not know: I live in a house with 8 females (girlfriend, daughter, 3 cats, 3 mice). I went almost exclusively by the name Klassic in college and to this day most of my friends from college think my last name is Klassic. I also had an alter ego that I used at many parties, Don Klassico.

[isynergy]

Name: Richard Lee
What I do: SEO Webdesign and Consulting for about 10 years (http://www.isynergywebdesign.com/)
Mivite since: I've been hooked on Miva since 2003. A couple of my Miva websites include www.grapeice.com (http://www.grapeice.com/), www.a2computers.net (http://www.a2computers.net/), www.archelan.com (http://www.archelan.com/), etc.
Something you may not know: I own my own consulting agency in the San Jose / San Francisco Bay Area. I attend both the Search Engine Strategies and Miva Small Business conferences each year. I used to be an Advid Paintball tournament player for about 8 years, love the outdoors, but spend most of my time these days helping small businesses grow their online sales.

[pairodimes]

Hello everyone, my name is Brian - I just wanted to join this forum to ask a few questions about MIVA merchant.

I have been developing HTML and Etc. Languages for 10+ years and MIVA is a new one for me.

Thank you in advance for any and all your support.

[Dan - Kemper Strategic]

Name: Dan Daron
What I Do: MIVA? Merchant? 5 design, development and consulting.
Mivite Since: I have been working on MIVA? sites since 1999. I was huge into OpenUI and OpenDesigner.
Something you may not know: I designed the cheesy logos for OpenUI, OpenTokens, OpenDesigner and such. I was recently involved in a bad accident while working on a pipeline where a piece of equipment pushed a 40' pine tree on top of me crushing my leg and face. (it has been 7 long months, but I am doing much better) I am married and had my first child, Kemper Marie, in January, 2006. Other than the birth of my daughter, this year sucked and I am ready for 2007 :)

[AmericanShippingCenters]

Hello everyone :)

Just wanted to say hello and introduce myself. My name is Jeff, and my company's name is American Shipping Centers. We deal with a lot of online merchants and have a lot of knowledge of the eCommerce world. I wanted to simply make myself available to any who might have questions about 3rd party fulfillment houses, shipping, pricing, or any other questions you may have about the fulfillment or distribution processes. Even if you have your own fulfillment or distribution center, I'm happy to render advice to any questions you might have. Feel free to check out our website if you are interested in learning more about our company at: http://www.AmericanShippingCenters.com

I'll probably lurk around the board every few days or so, so if you have any questions, feel free to send me a message. Have a good afternoon everyone :)

[Vic - WolfPaw Computers]

Welcome to the forums Jeff.

Is your service compatible with MIVA Merchant? As in are you folks familiar with the shopping cart and are able to integrate your services with it?

[AmericanShippingCenters]

Welcome to the forums Jeff.

Is your service compatible with MIVA Merchant? As in are you folks familiar with the shopping cart and are able to integrate your services with it?

Depends on the medium you would choose to transmit data to our warehousing operations. We also have software developers who specialize in EDI applications, so integrating with MIVA wouldn't be a problem.

We are interested in forming a working business relationship with MIVA, and will be contacting them to see what type of options may be available to help us with the integration process for any of their customers that may choose to do so - perhaps something along the lines of a preferred vendor program. We are currently a preferred national vendor for a few other larger franchise corporations.

[stepjack]

Name: Stephen Jackson
What I Do: President/Owner of Scent Design (http://www.scentdesign.net).
Mivite Since: About winter of 2006.
Something you may not know: Self taught and self implemented the entire ecommerce website. What a huge PITA that was. It's cool to have an idea that is the only one out there and it actually works! ;)
I'm a web designer and father of 2 little ones. It's very cool to be a part of a community of other 'outside the box' risk takers :)

[gomblue]

Name: Soren T
What I do: Part of a family retail business in northern Michigan that has been around since '71. Help direct the ecommerce portion of the business.
Mivite since: September 2001
Something you may not know: I'm a huge fan of U of M athletics. I have season football tickets. As a student, I had front-row, center-court, seats for basketball during the Fab 5 era.

http://info.detnews.com/pix/sports/2007/um/09152007_umnotredame/2007-0915-jg-UMvND-1013.jpg (http://info.detnews.com/pix/photogalleries/sportsgallery/09152007_umnotredame/index14.htm)
maybe our coolest fan

[JoeVodkaSauce]

Name: Joe Malewicki
What I do: Try to pay the bills while living in Fairfield County CT! I actually worked for Hyperion Solutions (now Oracle) for 10 years as a Technical Specialist. Now - I pack boxes of sauce and make gift baskets for a living (hopefully a lot more then I've been doing in the past year). Basically I built and have been running ceriellofinefoods.com for about 6 years now part time. I used to have pallets of sauce in my basement and Holiday shipping always was fun (wife loved having boxes in our living room next to the tree). I decided 1 year ago this week to leave my "secure and financially stable" corporate world job and go head on into the eCommerce world. I'm self taught for web-design and "barely" Miva knowledgeable but thanks to the help I receive from these forums I think we may be able to launch our new Miva 5 site in the very near future!
Mivite since: July 2007 (using since 2001)
Something you may not know: I married my high school sweetheart who I met in the Soviet Union in 1990 on an overnight train to Leningrad. The funny thing is we only lived about 26 miles away from each other back home in CT! We have 2 kids (Noah who turned 3 in July 2007) and our little princess Olivia (4 months old). She wasn't part of the "master plan" when I quit my job last year. Oops.

I can't offer much in the way of "Miva advice" right now since I'm really just beginning to dig into it but I can leave a thought for all you "eCommerce die-hards" trying to make a living off the Internet:

"An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him."

So grab your tartar sauce and get in your boat!

Thanks again everyone!

[Brandon MUS]

Name: Brandon
What I do: I work for a St. Louis based company in the fashion industry (that's about all I want to give away) that has multiple ecommerce websites (3 now, 2 soon). My official title is Web Developer, and I do almost everything web related except the designing.
Mivite since: I started with the company circa October 2005, so that was when I was first introduced to it all.
Something you may not know: I have recently become addicted (literally addicted) to wakeboarding and I plan on trying out wakeskating as soon as the weather in St. Louis gets back to warm -- it's going to be a long winter.
More tidbits: My strongest language is PHP, and I have a ton of experience with XHTML and CSS (I have been making tableless webpages since before it became the "cool thing to do"). I have spent countless hours making our Miva store use as much PHP as possible, including complete rewrites of the category pages, product pages and the login screen. We also use a custom admin interface and numerous intranet applications for managing the website.

[Ben @ eMediaSales]

Name: Ben
What I do: Currently, I am working with eMediaSales (http://www.emediasales.com) company
Mivite since: Since Jan, 2006. I joined MIVA Operation in India as a Support Engineer and left the company as a Sr. System Analyst. From the very first day, I liked the way MIVA software (specially MIVA Merchant and MIVA Script) work. I tried hard to learn MIVA Scripting and as a result I have a small MIVA documentation (hard copy) library at my home. I have almost all the books and reference materials which are related to MIVA software.
Something you may not know: I like to work in the night and full time in the weekend. I appreciate all the employees of MIVA for their efforts to make this company a unique one in the world and my special thanks goes to Mr. Mark Hughes, Mr. Clark, James McCormick, Cagdas Ucar, Alex, Scott, Keith, Dennis and all. <br>
Mr. James E Harrell is my ideal guru and I want to follow their steps to become a perfact technologist.

[Dakota@eMediaSales]

Name: Dakota Green
What I do: College student, going for my Associates in Computer Science. I'm also a freelancing creative writer and web designer. I just recently took the tag "freelancing" since I just fool around with web sites now that I have a bunch of free time.
Mivite since: February 2008. Was introduced to Miva by James Harrell, and was a guest of his at the Miva Merchant Conference.
Something you may not know: I've been hit by a car 9 times. Does that make me the Johnny Knoxville of these forums?

[dlamb]

Name: Dan Lamb
What I do: Web Development for BDU.com and Tactical.com
Mivite since: NOOBI to the core with Miva, will be on this site more than your bandwidth will allow...lol
Something you may not know: Pretty much everything as I'M A NOOB

[titlehere]

Name: Ryan Evelyth
What I Do: Web monster and product database manager of Nordic Needle, Inc.'s website (currently in phases of a massive re-design) and senior print designer/editor.
Mivite Since: Summer '07
Something you may not know: Despite the namesake, I'm a lady.

[indianapolisseo]

My name is Craig Cooper, I am President of USA Dental Websites, www.newfamiliesfordentists.com (http://www.newfamiliesfordentists.com), and President of Indianapolis SEO, www.indianapolisseo.com (http://www.indianapolisseo.com)

Both of these companies work hand in hand to ensure that clients are ranked appropriately at the top of search rankings.

So if anyone out there is looking for a dental website, let me know.

Look forward to reading more posts. thanks,

Craig

[GDesigns]

Name: Sabine Sharp (Myers)
What I do: SEO and Miva Merchant marketing, customization and design - amongst other online services - full time since 1999
Mivite since: 199? - since KoolCat, whenever that was...
Something you may not know: I train dogs - personal protection dogs as well as detection dogs - previously Schutzhund (back in Germany)

[HighRank]

Name: Scott Peterson
What I do: I began doing SEO work as the webmaster of a software company in the suburbs of Boston. My job there started out being about cleaning up errors in the code, adding new content, and looking for ways to get our potential customers to find us. This led to my discovery of the concept of search engine optimization, through a newsletter offered by the makers of a software application I used. Through my own research, I found other sources, spent a lot of time studying (as I still do), and eventually everything I did with that site was based on the concepts of SEO.

I'm now a freelance SEO and SEM consultant. I still do the occasional design of new web sites, but I don't consider that my profession. I consult with companies, individuals, and organizations on both new and pre-existing sites, doing all I can to make them as good as they can be and to send them increased traffic from exactly the audience they seek to serve.

Mivite since: 2008

Something you may not know: still secret :)

[lesliekirk]

Name: Ryan Evelyth

Something you may not know: Despite the namesake, I'm a lady.

A lady I have know for a long time now, is named Pete ;)

[lesliekirk]

Let me "re-introduce" myself. Many of you have known me as Leslie Nord (leslienord) - Friend of Miva Merchant, Volunteer Moderator, Webs Your Way, that annoying chick who's always taking pictures at the Miva (Merchant) Conferences and maybe by a few other things ;)

Technically, I have been Leslie Kirk since 1999, some of you even got to meet my husband at the last conference, but I continued to use Leslie Nord for a number of reason, one being so many of you knew me as that.

Some of you may have noticed the "Super Moderator" under my user name and wondered "how did she do that?" A few weeks back the opportunity of my life time presented itself and I now work for Miva Merchant. This has been my dream ever since I started working with Miva Merchant v1 back in 1997/98.

I owe a big thanks to James Harrell of eMediaSales (http://www.emediasales.com) and the opportunities that he has given me throughout all these years, starting back with the Copernicus Business Club have been priceless. I truly feel the time I have spent working with him has helped to open the door to my dream.

So I've hit the ground running and am very excited. I can't wait to see everyone again in February at the Miva Merchant Conference (http://www.mivamerchant.com/conference_2009/)!

Something you may not know: I coach Pee Wee bowlers - ages 3 to about 8.

[victor.brown28@gmail.com]

Hello Everyone!!

Name: Victor Brown
What I do: Business Analyst by profession but I have a lot of technical experience with e-Commerce technologies & learning new things is what I like the most. I do web-designing/writing simple modules in Open Source etc.
Mivite since: Very New. I worked for a client who uses MIVA Merchant and that's how I started learning the things. Hope to get support of all you experienced folks.
Something you may not know: I write poems too!!