Steve Atwal graduated from the University of Waterloo with an honours degree in Computer Science in 1985, and worked as a mainframe software engineer for six years in Toronto, for several large well known financial companies like Royal Bank, before moving to Vancouver, Canada. He then moved away from the mainframe world and entered into the client-server and desktop world, where he worked as a consultant for five years for many companies in Vancouver, such as the Vancouver Stock Exchange.
Since 1997, Steve has been helping the University of British Columbia to improve the Information Technology infrastructure for two large departments. To this end, he has been developing IT policies and procedures, capacity planning, chairing and participating in various committees for IT initiatives, preparing for disaster recovery using virtualization technologies, and ensuring that high security of all servers, desktops, and networks is enforced.
Steve chose XOOPS because of its feature set, expandability, and ease of use. You can contact him and leave some comments on his blog (www.steveatwal.com).