“United for Families has worked with the excellent staff at Cloudspace for over 5 years. Their work is consistently high quality – whether it be in coding or graphics – and they often know what we need better than we do!”

Tammy Tappan, PMP
Systems Administrator,
United for Families

Meet Dave Geffken. Dave has been working with Cloudspace for almost 6 years and is our resident non-profit website and application specialist. He is also currently getting trained for our agile development team which he will be joining in the coming month.  As you will read below, Dave is big into watching football, snowboarding and pinball.  And now here’s more about Dave:

Where were you born? Where did you grow up & what was it like there?
“I was born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.  I grew up in a suburb of Ft. Lauderdale called Lauderhill.  I went to a small Catholic school in Lauderdale Lakes called St. Helen’s.  Typical Florida suburb upbringing; played with friends in the neighborhood after school, went to summer camp at the local park, played sports at school and with the city.  I went to the beach a lot and learned how to surf, skim board, wake board and water ski.”

Meet Jacob Hemphill.  Jacob is the youngest engineer at Cloudspace and works with our Professional Services team.  He is also currently a student at the University of Central Florida.  He is a quick learner, a very dedicated employee and a great addition to the team!  He has a very bright future with Cloudspace. Now on to the interview…

Where were you born? Where did you grow up & what was it like there?
“I was born in the United States, but I grew up in several parts of the world, namely the USA, Russia and the Philippines.”

Tim will be presenting “300 Seconds of OAuth” at Ignite Orlando on Wednesday, March 4.  Ignite Orlando is a free event that brings individuals with like interests together for a night of learning, drinking and networking.  The event starts at 7pm and is being held at Slingapours in the Wall Street Plaza downtown.   So if you are in the Orlando area Wednesday night,  check out Tim’s presentation and meet up with other members of the Cloudspace agile team at Ignite Orlando!

Meet Michael Orr.  Michael is the CEO and overseer of everything here at Cloudspace.  He is one of our top engineers and has recently joined efforts with our Agile Development team.  Outside of work, he is big into comic books (Comic Book Wednesdays!), animals, Nine Inch Nails and traveling. Michael brings his excitement of the internet to the team and is a great person to work with as you will read below…

Where were you born? Where did you grow up & what was it like there?
“I was born in Owensboro, Kentucky and I moved around a lot. After Kentucky I lived in Knoxville, TN; Jacksonville, FL;  Lawrenceville, GA; Lake City, FL; Waycross, GA; Atlanta, GA; Palm City, FL; Orlando, FL.  I’ve lived in Orlando now longer than any of the other places, I came to Orlando in August 2000.”

Acts As Conference 09 videos are up! Including mine. It’s everything you ever wanted to know about OAuth. And, watch for the bonus XKCD reference

I’m on the internet!

Meet Roozbeh Meghdadi.  Roozbeh is our in-house graphic designer, as well as professional photographer. Any website design that we have launched for ourselves and our clients, in the last three years, have all been his creations.  Roozbeh is the type of person that says “anything is possible”, especially with the web; a true go-getter and  as you will read below an inspiring addition to our team.

Where did you grow up & what was it like there?
“I grew up in Tehran, Iran.  It’s not like what you see on TV or the news, it’s a different culture.  It has a big city feel like NYC.”

Meet Tim Rosenblatt.  Tim has been an engineer at Cloudspace for almost two years and is the Director of our Agile Development Team. He actually worked at Cloudspace over 5 years ago but opted to be a Techranger at UCF while finishing school. We are glad to have his smiling face, off-the-cuff sense of humor (as you will read below) and enthusiastic input back at Cloudspace!  If you happen to be in the Orlando area February 7th, check Tim out at the acts_as_conference.  He will be presenting “OAuth and APIs: Sharing your data without leaving your zipper down.”  Now on to the interview…

Meet Scott Sampson. Scott has been an engineer at Cloudspace since the beginning. He is the youngest of my three older brothers who started Cloudspace over 12 years ago. With his many years of coding experience and logical problem solving skills, he has shown that any idea can come to fruition on the web. He has recently taken over management of our Professional Services division. He is also our resident fishing expert, as you will read from the interview below. Enjoy…

Where were you born? Where did you grow up & what was it like there?
“I was born in Washington D.C. and grew up on Merritt Island, FL.  There was lots of water and I was able to go fishing a bunch.”

We’ve started a new project, with a new client. Can’t say what or who yet, but I will say that I’m looking forward to getting things running so that I can start using it for myself.

Michael and I flew out last Sunday morning, and thanks to the magic of time zones, landed shortly after we took off. We headed straight to A Donkey and Goat’s winery — right next to Wine.com — where Jared Brandt of Zentact makes his wine. As a side note, while we were in San Francisco, we launched Zentact to the public; if you haven’t tried it out, you should.