Who we are

Vectoreal is a professional association made up of leading experts in the field of rich standards-compliant Web applications, with a special focus on Scalable Vector Graphics. If you are looking for professional assistance with SVG, feel free to contact one of our members.

André M. Winter

André M. Winter is a cartographer and user interface specialist for heterogeneous data who got his degree from Vienna University in 2001. There he created the first prototype of an SVG-Atlas in the middle of 2000. After one year in the multimedia and CD production branch at Freytag & Berndt, the leading map publisher in Austria, he again returned to SVG. 2002-2004 he was member of the editorial staff of the Tirol Atlas and worked in the fields of application and interface programming, layout and content structure.
 
André teaches SVG based web mapping in Innsbruck and at the University of Applied Sciences of Berlin and held several talks at international mapping and internet conferences. Together with Andreas Neumann he also founded www.carto.net, a website dedicated to showcase SVG mapping applications and serves as a platform for Cartography and GIS students to publish their student and diploma works. He is consultant in the fields of tourism, multimedia cartography, SVG and regional organised web content.
Skills:
Client side implementations with XHTML, SVG and ECMAScript, generation of offline content out of dynamic server based applications, content structuring, cartography.

email: andre.winter at vectoreal

Christopher Lewis

Christopher Lewis is a computer science graduate of the University of Saskatchewan. In 2001 he joined Agriculture and Agri-food Canada as a Bioinformatics Biologist and develped an SVG GUI library to enable a web based comparative genome browser. He presented the GUI library and genome browser at SVG Open 2002 and coordinated an SVG GUI workshop at SVG Open 2003.
Skills:
SVG for biological visualization, interactive and dynamically generated SVG, clientside scripting (ECMAScript), SVG-GUI, XML, Perl, Apache, MySQL, Java

email: chris.lewis at vectoreal

Douglas Schepers

Doug Schepers has worked with SVG for over 3 years, concentrating on scripted client-side applications, and is an active member of the SVG community. He has developed custom SVG applications for use in the financial industry by CheckFree Corporation and E.G. Edwards & Associates, aided in the development of a GUI library, and he has made many open source SVG applications, including an online SVG editor and a set of Linguistics visualization tools. He specializes in user interfaces and data visualization.
In his spare time, Doug studies Information Library Science and Linguistics at UNC-Chapel Hill.

email: doug.schepers at vectoreal

Chris Peto

Chris Peto graduated from University of Maryland in 1994 with honors (3.913 gpa). Since then he has created an SVG Editor in SVG which reads/writes SVGs. The editor is standalone and part of Security Management System. He also wrote visualization/control system for a large Security Management System which interacts with database to create and edit layered navigational SVG plans. In addition, he has developed a CAD import assistant that extracts Objects placement and names from DXF with which the user can verify placement over SVG background and write in database upon approval. He has written SVG raiders game and has much experience in server and client side scripting.
Skills:
Graphic user interfaces and Building Automation in SVG, PHP, Javascript, C++.

email: chris.peto at vectoreal

Jan-Klaas Kollhof

Jan-Klaas Kollhof is studying at the University of Rostock, Germany. He is currently working towards a Master of Science in Business Informatics. During his studies Jan had the opportunity to teach several courses and seminars at the department of Business Informatics.
Jan is the author of the json-rpc protocol and developed the open source JavaScript framework JavaScript o Lait (jsolait). He is actively involved in the SVG community.
Jan mainly focuses on client-server communication and client side scripting. Besides software development he enjoys training and teaching computer science related topics.
Jan has given a number of SVG related workshops on an academic and business level.
Skills:
SVG, XHTML, XML, XSLT, SQL, XML-RPC, JSON-RPC, Java, Python, JavaScript, VisualBasic, Delphi

email: jan.kollhof at vectoreal

Petra Kukofka

Petra has been an active member of the SVG community since 2001 and is spreading her enthusiasm amongst others via her portal www.scale-a-vector.de.
She studied Linguistics in Hamburg/Germany and Edinburgh/Scotland before working as an Information Specialist for nine years. Parallel to this she has been working as a Webdesigner and -developer (client side and client to server) and in recent years focussed on SVG. She pioneered SVG art and animation.
Skills: SVG, XML, XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript,
Image Processing, Vector Art

email: petra.kukofka at vectoreal

Jim Ley

Jim is a well respected script developer, whose services in Britain are highly sought after. He has worked on many mission-critical contracts, and is skilled in client-side and client-server programming. He sees SVG as a crucial technology for the future of the web. He is also the author of the well-known FOAFNaut RDF browser, as well as an SVG-RDF raster image annotation package. Jim is a recognised expert in many technology forums.

email: jim.ley at vectoreal