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The Team
The core development team is composed of individuals with a wide variety of expertise, from three different departments within SFU, however a wide variety of people from all of SFU's campuses also provided input and feedback on the initial development. In addition this site owes a lot to its predecessor and those who developed it. The new site contains many of the same elements as the existing site, but they have been reorganized to keep the site current and modern in terms of design and technology. The design/development team primarily comes from the LIDC (Learning & Instructional Development Centre). Academic Computer Services (ACS) is the 'keeper' of the site and Media and Public Relations played a key role in the development and will be involved with much of the long-term content creation/maintenance including the news headlines, news items and sub pages.

Gary Stasiuk
LIDC (Media Production Group, Interactive Design)

Gary is an experienced interactive designer, developer and educator. He has been creating digital content for CD ROMs and the Internet for over four years professionally, and has been working with graphic media for twenty years plus. He specializes in creating interactive and dynamic Internet solutions with the LIDC and as a freelance designer/developer in the private sector with his own company,
Praxis Interactive. He also teaches courses in using Macromedia Flash MX at the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design.

He was given the lead in creating the design, the style sheets, the site structure as well as the navigational interface for the www.SFU.ca project.


Gary Stasiuk

Annemarie Tempelman-Kluit
Media & Public Relations (Web Strategist)

Annemarie is experienced in web production, content management and project management. She manages the suite of sites for External Relations and the President's Office at SFU.

Media & Public Relations is behind the redesign of the new www.SFU.ca home page and Annemarie managed the project focusing on communication and usability. She will continue to maintain the News Release headings, the rotating photos and the copy on many of the sub pages.

Annemarie Templeton-Klute

Michael Pede
LIDC (Media Production Group, Media Developer)

Michael is a highly knowledgeable server side developer. His specialty is server technologies, which include building server side applications and code structures to implement features on the back end of web sites. Currently, he maintains the LIDC server as well as the Web casting and Video streaming services at the LIDC.

He supplied support in creating the dynamic JavaScript elements for this project. Additionally, he created the administrative back end features to dynamically update the image resources and the news headlines and features, within the heavy security limitations that ACS places on the www.SFU.ca home page.



Michael Pede

Mike Stanger
ACS (Academic Computer Services)

Mike Stanger is the person behind the address webmaster@sfu.ca. Mike started out by developing the original web site for the SFU Microcomputer Store around 1994. He is now part of a team that provides support for several web-based services at SFU including personal web publishing, WebDAV, the WebCT Course Management system, and the Caucus conferencing system. He also works with the development team responsible for the mySFU portal and many other projects within Academic Computing Services.

Mike's primary interest in web-based services at SFU is that they be simple, robust and secure, and he strives to provide helpful and friendly support for those services for the SFU Community.


Mike Stanger

Greg Elhers
LIDC (Media Production Group, Photography)

The photographic work of Greg has been used throughout the first and second levels of the new www.SFU.ca web site. He has been a creative force within the LIDC's Media Production Group for over ten years. His work has been represented in numerous publications to critical acclaim. Recently, his work was also featured in the AQ magazine.


 



Greg Elhers


Additional images for the www.SFU.ca site were provided by:

Ron Long         (LIDC Media Production Group - Photography)
Gary Stasiuk    (LIDC Media Production Group - Interactive Design)
  Site Design: LIDC@SFU