Profile: 

Roger Helliwell is a software developer and programmer from Vancouver, B.C. Over the past 20 years, he has worked on a wide range of projects -- from small freeware and shareware Windows applications, to large enterprise-class systems.

Recently, Roger upgraded his skills by completing the Diploma of Technology program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) -- specializing in Technical Programming. After graduating in May 2004, Roger focused his energies on building web-applications and web-enabled solutions.

Roger started working with UBC, MAPGAC, NRCAN, and the rest of the Phoenix team in September of 2004. Their goal: to design and build a geo-spatially enabled, web-based, collaboration and decision support system. Over the past two and a half years, Roger has developed and coded a large chunk of what Phoenix is today -- from the database tables and stored procedures to the Xml web services and web pages. You can view the latest build here: http://ctp.geosemantica.net/ and here: http://beta.koomb.com

Roger's enjoys keeping up with the ever-changing developments in the IT world. He prefers "back-end" programming and designs and fine-tunes databases and data-warehouses in his spare time. And although Roger uses existing technology to his advantage while coding, he is very proud of the fact that he has never once uttered the word "leverage" unless he is hoisting an old washing machine up the basement steps.

Roger is married and has a 3 year old who keeps us very, very busy!