Steve's first computer was an Apple II+ in 1979. He has been a tech junkie ever since. He started as a programmer/technician for a small automation & control company in Syracuse, New York where he wrote code and built (wire wrapped) interface cards by hand.
In 1982 Steve moved to Orlando, Florida and joined a chain of Computer Stores which sold Apple Computers and he helped usher in the Lisa/Mac/GUI era. He even sold 20+ Apple Lisa systems for more than $10,000 each! He was recruited by AT&T to join their new "computer division" shortly after divestiture in 1984. In 1988, Steve excitedly joined a desktop publishing service bureau and software start-up, Studiotronics in Winter Park, Florida. This firm developed and distributed one of the coolest Apple products in the late 80's, Colorset, which turned black & white (grayscale) image scanners into color scanners. This product and all of Studiotronics assets were acquired by Chinon America of Torrance, California in 1991. At this time Steve moved to Los Angeles as he was hired as National Sales Manager of this Japanese computer products manufacturer.
In 1993 Steve founded and built an amazing company/brand as CEO of Glyph Technologies in Ithaca, NY. Glyph was a pioneer in the audio/video recording industry providing optimized data storage solutions for digital audio and video workstations such as Digidesign/AVID. He left Glyph in November 2001 and went to work at Ground Zero in NYC for six months, assisting in the recovery/cleanup. In 2003, he started s-go Consulting part-time while looking for "good" employment opportunities. s-go officially became a full time company in April of 2005.
He has been an active part of the Mambo/Joomla community since 2003 and was a speaker at Joomla Day DC, 2010.
His entire career has been immersed in the tech industry with sales/marketing/executive leadership roles. He attended Herkimer County Coummity College from 1977-78 and majored in Marketing.
Steve is Married to his awesome wife Sandra and has five children and two grandchildren. He is very active in his church and community and love to ride his motorcycle.
Chad Windnagle is a skilled web developer who has been working and learning the art of solid, modern web development for over 5 years. As Lead Developer for s-go Consulting, Chad brings expertise in programming fundamentals, application design, and a unique ability bring web based solutions to today's industries needs. Chad's ever-expanding expertise in the web industry allows s-go's many clients to benefit from his ability to bring to them the best that modern web technologies have to offer.
Chad's experience in the Open Source industry has lead him around the world, as he's been able to talk about Joomla, one of the world's most popular Free Open Source Software Open Source Content Management Systems in Washington DC (JoomlaDayDC, 2010), New York City (JoomlaDayNYC 2010), and Kerkrade, Netherlands at an international Joomla conference (JandBeyond, 2011).
Chad holds an associates degree in Web Design from Tompkins Cortland Community College, and was named the 2009 student of note award during his senior year at Tompkins Cortland in the Web Design program. He has been named a Dean's List student every semester as well. Chad is currently seeking a bachelors degree in Business Administration from S.U.N.Y. Delhi.
Andrew is a successful sales and business development executive in the high technology industry. He has worked with Apple Computer, AVID Technology and other technology firms.
In 1987 to 1991, Andrew worked with Apple Computer in New York City, first as a Systems Engineer and then as an Account Executive selling solutions to business, government and educational institutions. He also led Apple's sales efforts with director Francis Ford Coppola and aided Mr. Coppola in his efforts to redefine the creation of modern-film making.
In 1993 Andrew joined Digidesign, the digital audio workstation pioneer, which eventually merged with and became Avid Technology. As the Los Angeles Regional Sales Manager he was influential in gaining recognition and acceptance of the companies flagship software product Pro Tools within the Hollywood Post Production community. This laid the groundwork for the company winning an Oscar Awarded for Technical Merit in 2003.
In 1997 to 2008 Andrew was the North East Regional Sales Manager for AVID selling digital audio workstation products of the Digidesign division through a wide variety resellers.
Since 2008, Andrew has been a Consultant working with a variety of companies guiding sales and marketing activities.
Andrew currently resides in Webster, New York with his wife Bridget, and two sons Simon, 11 years old, and Manny who is 8. Andrew is also working on getting his black belt in Shotokan karate and enjoys playing guitar and golf. Andrew went to college at S.U.N.Y. at Brockport and grew up in Holley, New York.
