Skills

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The collective skillsets of currently active Espians

cre8radix (Danny Bruder)

music production
composer and author
lyricism and songwriting
promotion and agitprop
connecting people
press com
content production
streetfighting

Mamading Ceesay

Mayhem and havoc on the scale of a storm in a teacup
System Administration (Linux and Windows)
Backend Web Development
Forgotten how to program in more languages than I care to recall right now
Miscellaneous and mysterious skills and talents.
Have tinkered with software for LETS and Timebanks and co-run a course on community currencies.
Written and supported banking/financial software including a trading system handling millions of pounds in stock and cash daily

Robert De Souza

My key skills are Mentoring, Educating & Connecting as a Catalyst:

As a student of key Personal Development Masters like Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins, Bob Proctor, Randy Gage, Brian Tracy and many more, I use my knowledge to mentor my key leaders on how they can make a difference by living with purpose and passion.

Guilhem Buzenet

Business (a bit of lotsa things), Music, Anger.

David Pinto

verbalising concepts, pointing at abstraction, ie teaching maths
pointing at the human heart
creating environments where people generate self-organising skills, eg school, tron
interested in generating systems which engender self-discipline and social responsibility, eg in schools
confronting, directly, cleanly, eg when someone is doing something harsh, unthinking, bullish...
being genuinely interested in people :)

Chris Heaton

Dunnow...

speak a few languages (French, German, Russian, Japanese, Hebrew, and other smatterings - a "rich mix")
training in linguistics, and a lot of nineteenth century history (almost got a PhD once - might happen eventually)
involved in a few creative projects in the London area (ha ha, no blagging).
nerdy enough to understand what's going on here? Let's see.

Henry Hicks

User:Henry Hicks/Skills

Ingmar Redel

User:Ingmar/Skills

Josef Davies-Coates

symbiotic engineering and behind the scenes networking
a bit of web geekery and lots of online research
event organisation and promotion
"fountain of knowledge" -- wide-ranging awareness on a lot of different issues

Jeffry Archambeault

thinking and connecting ideas between people & concepts
basic sysadmin skills, basic db (sql/access/fm) administration, basic programming knowledge
troubleshooting & recycling used PCs
legacy systems - BBSs, modems, barbed-wire, tin cans & string, smoke signals
hand-drummer, harmonica player, throat singer, wanabe recording artist
ability to test usability of internet services over low bandwidth connection

JohnMW

18 years working in various IT jobs.

Last 10 years working in content/document/record management, workflow, collaboration etc.

Last 7 years working as a presales consultant in that field.

Joy Green

great with monkeys

on/off capoeirista

allegedly a professional communicator

rusty academic background in physics / emergence / virtual environments

accidental befriender of useful and interesting people

Stephan Karpischek

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Lesley Williams

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Frauke Godat

User:Little Woman/Skills

Mark Dilley

Union Organizer

Markus Quarta

User:Markusq/Skills

Matt Cooperrider

User:Mattcoop/Skills

Charles Goodier

User:Mediovia/Skills

Tom Morgan

Good managerial and collaboration experience and extensive Industrial and Product design knowledge. Strong conceptual development, first-rate researching, user immersion, trend research, workflow analysis, scenario building, family product line development, 3D modeling for illustration and part manufacture, user interface design, graphic branding and product iconography.

Simon Fox

Breathing, thinking, walking, talking.. all to a fairly high level
Able and willing writer and speaker
Designer for print and web (front end mostly, but to be honest work cannot be done on the web without backend knowledge in this age)
Substantial experience working with people - fundraising, events organisation, customer care etc
Steadily growing knowledge of business planning and practice, function and theory
Vast quantities of:
- Vim
- Vigour

Mathew Ryden

Designing overly complicated systems and wondering why they can't be more complicated
Designing impossible simple systems with complicated underpinnings
Maintaining and operating electrical, propulsion, and reactor safety systems onboard nuclear submarines
Programming: C. Python?. it feels like it's been years
Sounding board, as long as you are okay with me telling you the idea makes no sense and is probably stupid
The ability to admit I'm sometimes wrong
Absolutely the most modest person in the world

Sofia Bustamante

Facilitation and design of social processes.
Coaching - focused on careers for people who want to create a world they believe in.
Mediation - focus has been neighbourhood conflicts in London and then applyling different methods like open space, and aspects of deep democracy to groups in different settings.
Some consulting on engagement processes and how to harnessing collective intelligence in groups

Also, am a practitioner of other personal development techniques that can go deeper than coaching.

'The Work' of Byron Kate. www.thework.com
Emotional Freedom Techniuqe www.emofree.com

Callum Beith

User:Pincdesign/Skills

Naadir Jeewa

It's been awhile since I've touched actual code.

Reading too much into social theory.

Salim Virani

Basically,

web-based app design using PHP,
a strong background in direct, integrated and online marketing, both with hands-on and management experience, and
experience with a number of tech start-ups, 4 of which I co-founded.

Here's the pompous bollocks from my CV:

A consultant with experience in delivering bespoke technical and business web-based solutions to marketing, media, retail, telecommunications, legal and government sectors. Possessing 11 years of commercial web applications experience encompassing a range of traditional and recent technologies, and 7 years of client-facing and business management experience ranging from startups to multi-nationals.

Experience of managing across the full lifecycle, $1m+ projects, globally distributed teams and 3rd-parties. Possessing an in-depth understanding of business planning; due diligence; business requirements analysis; direct, integrated & online marketing; conversion management; high-volume application/architecture analysis & design; network design; interface design; content management (CMS); online payment systems; online security analysis; open source software and licensing; e-CRM; real-time customer profiling; transaction-handling; OO design; relational database design & implementation; and XP & classic SDLC processes.

Technical Skills

Web & Internet Software Development LAMP, PHP 4 - 5.2, (using OO and MVC design patterns) MySQL 4/5, Apache 1.3 & 2.x, Paypal and E-xact transaction APIs, DHTML, Javascript, AJAX, xajax, Scriptalicious, Prototype, PEAR, DB_DataObject, FCK Editor, CSS2, Mambo CMS, DRM, SOAP, XML, XML-RPC, Internet Explorer 5.x – 7, Firefox, Safari.

Operating Systems, Office & Design Software CentOS, Slackware, Fedora, Gentoo Linux, Windows XP Server, Mac OS X, PHP-GTK, KDE3 Kiosk , Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady & Illustrator.