About Staff
Adam DeGiorgio B.Sc.(CompSc) B.E.(CompSys)
Managing Director
In the heady days of the late '90s, Adam DeGiorgio, was considered something of a key player in Melbourne's high profile Oakleigh 4's indoor soccer league. Since then he has shifted his focus slightly and instead chosen to sharpen his expertise in software design and development, client consulting, workshop facilitation and project management in the fields of Web and IT systems development. Known simply as "Ads" by his peers, Adam is the father of two beautiful children and the husband of one smoking hot wife - and has, on a number of occasions, played the role of lead consultant on a huge range of large scale Web development and internet banking consulting projects for large Australian Banking and Finance companies. His leadership qualities are second to none, his friendly and outgoing attitude has made him a hit with Salsa's many clients and in the next five to ten years, he hopes to buy a pony.
Phil Baddock B.IT.
Marketing Director
They say a picture's worth a thousand words - but Salsa's Search Marketing Director, Phil Baddock, will always suggest that eight or nine highly ranked Google keywords are usually more than adequate. An extremely talented search engine optimisation expert by day and covert KGB secret agent by night, Phil, or "Bad Boy Baddock" as he's known in his World of Warcraft guild, gained national acclaim before working with Salsa as CTO of The Anstat Group, one of Australia's leading regulatory publishers, his time during which he built up one of the world's largest document imaging systems and also helped build Australia's largest ASP hosted Risk & Compliance management system. Prior to that, Phil worked at Sensis (Yellow Pages), Telstra's wholly owned Directory Services subsidiary where he led some of Australia's largest search engine, content management, personalisation and eCommerce projects including managing the IT function for online sites such as White Pages, Yellow Pages, Whereis and Altavista. He is currently, and quite busily, working on his Ph.D thesis regarding the theoretical length of dinosaur tails.
Matt Trimarchi
Creative Director
When Matt first joined the Salsa team in 2005, he was completely unskilled, entirely uneducated and as rough around the edges as gravel. Unlike gravel, however, Matt has overwhelmingly surmounted all obstacles in his path, since then, in becoming both the award winning Salsa creative director we have with us today and an extremely well rounded human being. When prompted, Matt credits his success to his "un-quenching thirst for accomplishment and human blood". Constantly switching from designer to coder, coder to high-tech dub-ghetto-fusion-folk musician and back again, "Our" Matt spends his after hours remixing aged 1930s gramophone records and often enjoys dressing up as the front half of a horse at parties. Single and looking.
Chris Duell B.CS. B.SEng.
Project Manager
In a word: "excellence". That is how many describe Michael Jordan after his amazing 11th hour game-winning basket in the fifth game of the 1989 NBA playoffs. Chris Duell, the Salsa Project Manager and self professed "God of CSS" always keeps this incredible moment of bravery and virtue close to his heart in all work that is laid before his award winning fingertips. With an outstanding and in-depth knowledge of all things web design, particularly PHP and various open source platforms, and a double degree background in both Computer Science and Software Engineering, Chris is the sleek oil that keeps the gears of Salsa Internet churning. His award winning smile and good graces have also seen him become a cult hit at the local pubs of East Brunswick.
Alex Cheng B.Comm.(Accounting)
Web Developer
When the universe called out for a brainy, albeit somewhat scattered, PHP developer with a background in accounting and a firm knowledge of the first half of a mechanical engineering degree, Alex "The Cheng" Cheng answered. Having spent the majority of his education-life in the commerce sector and the majority of his work-life in the IT sector, Alex brings a wealth of eCommerce knowledge to his websites that Salsa clientele have always both applauded and intricately sought after. He also drives a 1997 Toyota Camry Vienta and enjoys long walks on the beach.
Sammy Brent B.CS. B.A.(Linguistics)
Web Developer
Sammy Brent, a mega-attractive kung-fu web developer for whom the term "awesome" can only be described as a grand understatement, joined the Salsa team in late 2007 - and in that time has attacked each project handed to him with the same fervour and lust to see an attractive and coherent result as a 1970's film director. Graduating from a double degree in Computer Science and Arts and with a solid decade of web development experience behind him, Sammy is more than a web architect: he's a revolutionary. He also enjoys shark-fin dumplings.
Nathan Perry
Web Developer
Nathan Alan Perry is far and away the most exciting developer named "Nathan Alan Perry" that Salsa has ever had under its employ. Raised by wolves and taught modern linguistic skills by Tibetan monks, Nathan joins us from the far-away lands of New Zealand with a song in his heart, a spring in his step and a dream in his eye. A dream, of fulfilling your website needs. Whether it be PHP, .NET, SQL Server, HTML or CSS work, Nathan is your guy - and considering his unblemished record of customer satisfaction, the hot tip is that he'll continue to excel well into the future. In his spare time he enjoys the finer points of public transport banter and debating whether or not to wear a scarf. Just kidding, he hates scarves.
Hiroo Tolani B.Bus.(BusInfoSys)
Web Developer
"Sincerely questionable" is how we once described Hiroo's personal motives to a local inquisitive police officer. Joining the company in 2004 with a Bachelor of Business Information Systems behind him, Hiroo Tolani offers Salsa customers the complete package: a sophisticated knowledge of web, software and hardware technologies, a desire to see projects through to their completion and an award winning set of abs. He is a self proclaimed "Counterstrike and Day of Defeat addict" and spends much of his free time playing video games, working on his beast of a car and grooming his nostrils - because, as Hiroo puts it, "they never can be too clean."
Daniel Bouras B.Bus.(eCommerce) B.A.(M.Media)
Web Developer
Once upon a time there was a visionary named "Daniel Bouras", who had a creative flair comparable to Bob Marley and lived in a far-away kingdom but traveled over an hour and a half to work every day just to see the smiling face on his boss when he got there. Graduating from the mystic higher education volcano that is Victoria University with a Bachelor of Business, majoring in eCommerce, and a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Multimedia, Daniel came to Salsa with a simple desire to make everyone's life just "that" much better - and to at least a certain degree, he has. His clients love him, his peers respect him and when all's said and done, his popularity will probably outlast sliced bread. He spends much of his spare time working, studying classic rock guitar and attempting to perfect Jimmy Walker's "dy-no-mite" catchphrase.
Nick Kos B.E.(Electrical)
Support Manager
With a distinguished list of personal accomplishments such as 4th place in a regional bodybuilding competition, twenty-four months of boutique cafe ownership and the prestigious title of "staff member that most represents Batman whilst wearing a Catwoman costume", it's not hard to see why Nick Kos left a glamorous life in the fitness industry for the dizzying highs of professional web development. Barely surviving through 4 years of RMIT on a diet of calculus and beer and although joining Salsa in telemarketing sales, Nick quickly rose to the role of Salsa Support Manager due to his truly remarkable levels of customer care and alluring odour - and hasn't looked back since: "I just want to do my job and go back to my weekend adult leisure activities, now get that microphone out of my face!"
Steve Pham B. CS.
Web Developer
Little is known about the fata morgana-esque illusion that is Stephen Pham, however both archaeologists and genuine scienticians say they have reason to believe that he is both man AND machine. Joining Salsa in December of 2007 with a list of cridentials as long as the hours he spends playing video and card games, Stephen has fit in perfectly to the exclusive East Brunswick club and is quickly creating a rolodex of very satisfied clientele. A Bachelor of Computer Science graduate from Melbourne's prestigious RMIT university and with a strong proficiency for both web frameworks such as PHP and Java AND traditional programming frameworks such as C and .NET, Stephen is the most remarkable human being to have ever walked the planet. Well, maybe not, but he's very good. He also reckons his mum's the greatest.
