Team Mambo comprises many dedicated individuals from the community who volunteer their time and lend their expertise to the Mambo Open Source Project. These individuals work in teams who focus on specific areas to help grow and manage the project.

The Mambo Steering Committee comprises the leaders of the various teams that make up Team Mambo. We invite you to get to know Mambo's team leaders...

Alain Schmalz (aka Mamboswiss)
[3rd Party Development Team Leader]

A French speaking Swiss national living in the Geneva area, Alain has a Master Degree in Law and is also a Swiss Certified Tax Consultant. He is a veteran of several major international firms, including KPMG, and but has been running his own business for over a decade. Alain has been involved with IT for almost ten years and has built numerous sites for associations, small businesses, and friends. Mambo has been his preferred CMS for a couple of years. He currently pursues linguistic and semantic studies as they relate to search engines in general and to Google in particular. Alain is also undertaking the development of Mambo components based on his research.

Chad Auld (aka cauld)
[Core Development Team Leader]

Chad is a Data Warehouse ETL (Extract / Transform / Load) developer by day and an open source coder by night. He has been using a variety of open source products, including Linux, MySQL, Apache, PHP, and others, for the better part of the last five years. Chad is a MySQL certified professional, holds a Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, and is one class shy of his Master's degree in Information Systems. He has been using Mambo for the last year and uses it to power his open source advocacy site - http://opensourcepenguin.net

Ric Shreves (aka Ricoflan)
[Advocacy & PR Team Leader]

Ric has been working with CMS-driven websites since 1999 and has built systems for a wide variety of firms, including BASF, Tesco, FPDSavills, CBRichard Ellis and Colgate-Palmolive. He was leading development of a proprietary CMS product on the .NET platform when he discovered Mambo in 2003. Inspired by the potential of Mambo, he quit the company he was working for and started Water&Stone, a web development firm specializing in Open Source content management solutions. In addition to working with Water&Stone, Ric is an IT journalist and Open Source advocate and is a frequent speaker at industry events. He currently lives in Bali, where he is pursuing his theory that an IT professional should be able to make a living anywhere in the world with a notebook computer and an Internet connection. So far he says, all he has been able to prove is that it is a beautiful theory...

Carlos Souza (aka Csouza)
[Translation Team Leader]

Carlos currently works as a freelance PHP consultant and language translator specializing in technical and scientific documents. He started off his web development career in 2000 and has been hooked on web technologies ever since. Over the years, he has been involved in the development of several custom backend systems for corporate and scientific research institutions. He got introduced to Mambo about a year ago and has been using it to cater for small businesses that are looking for a flexible solution for their web presence. When he's not working he likes to get his mountain bike out and cruise along the coast. He is Portuguese and lives in Portugal next to the sea.

Richard Ong (aka Arpee)
[Documentation Team Leader]

Richard resides in the Philippines where he works with the Akrlan State University Research and Development Services Unit. He's proficient with SQL, PHP and Visual Basic and administers a Mambo site as part of his job at the University. In addition to his programming skills Arpee also freelances as a Multimedia artist specializing in 3D and 2D animations. Richard is a relative new-comer to Mambo but in a short period of time has found a talent for documenting and explaining the system to others.