Lesley A. Harrison has more than ten years experience working in the world of IT, having served as a Systems Administrator for a multinational IT outsourcing company, and later a database administrator for a British utility company. Today, Lesley runs her own video gaming site, Myth-Games.com, and works as a freelance web developer. She has clients all over the world, running a range of Joomla!, WordPress, and other open source CMSes, as well as some custom-coded solutions.
Lesley is currently working on the Beginner's Guide to WordPress-MU, which will be published by Packt Publishing in December 2009.
Oland T. Whitecotton, III is a certified PHP and MySQL developer with over 8 years of experience. He has worked for the largest debt consolidation company in America, Credit Solutions, as well as media publisher Idearc (think Superpages.com) and the employment web site Monster.com.
Tom Canavan has been in the computer and IT industry for 24 years and is currently working as the Chief Information Officer for a new Internet Security Startup.
He is author of the Packt Publications book, Joomla! Web Security and the book Dodging the Bullets - a disaster preparation Guide for Joomla! Websites.