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Vincenzo Carrubba

From Special Forces to OTGS Vincenzo Carrubba: “Working in WPML support is a challenging and ever-changing experience.” Vincenzo, you joined OTGS in March 2015. What kind of work are you doing exactly? Vincenzo In 2014 I received an email from OTGS about a supporter job for the Italian forum. This role requires a great passion for problem solving and for helping people. Of course, a working knowledge of CSS, PHP and javascript is essential, but it...

February 20, 2017

Minesh Shah

Minesh & Rikta Minesh Shah was born in Bhavnagar city, the first child of his parents. Soon he was joined by 2 more brothers and 1 sister. His father was a civil servant and his mother a housewife. Minesh is married to Rikta. Bhavnagar Bhavnagar is a coastal city in the eastern Saurashtra region of the Gujarat state of India. The old town of Bhavnagar was a fortified town with gates leading...

December 6, 2016

David Garcia Watkins

David and Cari David works remotely from the Sierra de las Nieves in Spain The Mediterranean climate is wonderful, as most of you know, because the company event was held in Torremolinos in Spain a few years ago. I am fortunate enough to live in the countryside of Malaga province, in a little village called Monda bordering the south side of a natural park, Sierra de las Nieves. Apart from a few villages this isolated area...

December 6, 2016

Otto Wald – a detective looking for clues to catch the bug

Otto lives in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. He tells us: Buenos Aires is a big crowded city, 3m inhabitants, very cosmopolitan and full of cultural and sports events. It’s the home of the Tango and the famous “parillas” (steakhouses ) but here you can also find Indian, French, Vietnamese, Lebanese, Thai, Scandinavian, Mexican, Brazilian, Peruvian, Armenian or American food. Buenos Aires never sleeps! Restaurants open at 9pm, bars at midnight and clubs at 2am so you can dance until...

October 20, 2016

Juan de Paco – Toolset lead developer

Does this quote from a recent Toolset Development tech report remind you of someone? “I am entangled in the middle of a task that keeps growing :-P……..  there is no clean upgrade path,….. While working on it, I rescued another request …….So I added it to the mix……And finally, we had another bug…..It all is related and entangled, but makes perfect sense.” A colleague was prompted to say:  "He is doing some crazy Toolset Dev stuff for as long as...

September 8, 2016

Adriano Ferreira – Toolset Support Team Leader

Me and my middle brother Brazil 2016. A very special country. No, not because of the Olympics, but because Adriano Ferreira our Employee of the Month comes from Brazil. Adriano, tell us something about yourself ….. As you said, I am from Brazil. I was born in Rio and currently live in the small town of Cataguases, in the state Minas Gerais in the southeast. It is a nice, quiet place, with a population of 74.000,...

August 19, 2016

Peter Materna – marketing specialist

Courteous, forward-thinking, scholarly, well-traveled. You who know Peter well, would you say this describes our man in Marketing? Peter speaks perfect English and perfect Polish. Of course, since he comes from Poland! From Katowice, to be precise, a city in southwestern Poland and the center of the Silesian Metropolis. Katowice is not too far from the Czech Republic and Slovakia , approximately 1-1½ hours by road. Peter, would you like to give us a tour of your city? It is...

July 11, 2016

Przemek Mirota – skilled WordPress developer

A pleasant young man just 23 years old and with 8 years’ experience as a web developer!Can this be? Let’s meet Przemysław Mirota who lives in Central Poland, in a small town called Zwoleń. “For the last 5 months I have been living with my parents in the very small town of Zwoleń.  A short walk brings me into the forest.  There is no cinema, no swimming pool, in fact nothing to attract visitors, except that the famous Renaissance poet...

July 11, 2016

Abdallah Deeb – a Systems Development and Maintainance specialist

Beirut, the Paris of the Middle East - fast-paced, fashion-conscious, crowded, almost chaotic, but its friendly hospitality is really irresistible. Beirut is the capital of Lebanon and goes back more than 5,000 years. Abdallah lives in Beirut, still in the same apartment as he grew up in. Beirut downtown He says: The building still has the traces of different wars that have plagued the country ever since I was born. Beautiful place. I love it here....

June 2, 2016

Jakub Milczarek – an UX specialist

Science lectures for kids He’s the biggest handsome man in the company!  Who is he?  Why, none other than Jakub Milczarek! The day I spoke with Jakub he told me it was 10 °C in Łódź, sunny but windy.   This is his city, the third largest in Poland and situated almost in the center of the country. Jakub, what is it like in Łódź? It is very industrial - we have a lot of beautiful old...

May 10, 2016