Ted Kritsonis

Ted Kritsonis, consummate freelancer and eminent tech guru, is the guy who brings his game when we need it. He contributes to numerous publications in Canada and the US, and formerly was editor of Macworld Canada. His passion is educating and entertaining all seeking the latest and greatest in tech, and on whatsyourtech.ca, we’ve asked him to “bring it” to video.

http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/ted-kritsonis/1/b75/4

Dilshan Kathriarachchi

Dilshan Kathriarachchi is the CTO of Addictive Mobility, an award-winning North American mobile technology company. Dilshan founded Sri Lanka’s pioneering electronic commerce venture at the age of 16, and helped jumpstart nFiction.com , one of the world’s largest fan-fiction archives. He writes several international business publications. When not consumed by tech challenges, he spends his days pondering over the future of the Internet and the disruptive change it’s bringing to our society.

http://ca.linkedin.com/in/dilshank
http://www.addictivemobility.com/home/
http://zinth.nfiction.com

Lee Rickwood

Lee Rickwood, Owner/Operator at Word On A Wire, casts the eye of an eagle over Canada’s fast-changing digital media industry. Having worked in broadcast TV, magazine publishing and digital media production, Lee Rickwood has been exposed to a lot of hardware and software over the years. He still thinks wetware is the most important technology we have, but then, he still dreams of another assignment in Hawaii.

http://www.wordonawire.com/
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/woaw47

Jose Gabriel C. Sevilla – Gadjo

Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla began his career in media as a reporter and desk editor covering metro news, education, travel and music before focusing on lifestyle and culture. A former Mac technician for CPUsed, his interest in technology goes back to the early days of programming BASIC on an Apple IIe as well as fiddling with computer games.His work is featured in such publications as The Toronto Star, MetroNews.ca, Canoe.ca, Evergeek Media and Winnipeg Free Press among others.

http://www.gadjo.ca/gs/Experience.html
http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/gadjo-sevilla/4/93a/528

Guest Contributors

Meet WhatsYourTech.ca’s expanded team – our line-up of guest contributors.  These are individuals who are passionate  about the use of tech tools to facilitate new means of expression, collaboration and connection.

Bill Brydon

Bill Brydon has led vivid past lives as a senior IT industry analyst and archivist, but is now a comprehensive website junkie. He is a graduate of the Web Development program at Humber College, and now serves on the program’s Advisory Committee.  He has worked at Metronews.ca and IT World Canada, where he performed business and operational roles for the PCWorld Canada and Macworld Canada websites. Bill helped to build WhatsYourTech.ca and is now the site’s Operations Manager. He has made sites for the Toronto XiangQi Association and the artist JoEllen Brydon.

http://ca.linkedin.com/in/billbrydon

Yasmin Ranade

Yasmin Ranade is a one-woman whirlwind of activity. She is whatsyourtech.ca’s founder, publisher, marketer and editor-in-chief. And she is a very generous volunteer who gives unselfishly of her time and knowledge to help others.

Before she established WhatsYourTech.ca, Yasmin was Vice President and Publisher at IT World Canada where she created the Canadian online presence of two of the world’s biggest magazine brands: PCWorld.ca and Macworldcanada.ca. Combining her marketing savvy with editorial leadership, she turned these websites into the Canadian online destination that satisfied Canadians thirst for objective, technology-related information. Prior to this at Metro Toronto, the second largest daily newspaper in the GTA, Yasmin established Metro Canada’s online presence metronews.ca and spearheaded the launch of Metro in Ottawa and Vancouver. The launch of Metro newspaper in Vancouver was nominated for Marketing Magazine’s Marketing Innovation Award (MIA) in 2005.

Yasmin honed her marketing skills in Canada’s Technology and Telecommunications sector contributing to the success of such giants as Digital Equipment, Compaq, Telus, and Sprint Canada. Her business and marketing acumen resulted in numerous personal and professional awards including her Sprint team winning the coveted Canadian Marketing Association’s RSVP Award in 2001.

Yasmin brings her passion for technology to her volunteer work. Yasmin is the President of Wired Woman Toronto Chapter. Her training events have become the “must-go-to” events for the technology sector. Earlier this year she established a mentoring program in partnership with Community MicroSkills Development Centre to help women build careers in IT. In the meantime, she spearheaded the numerous fundraising campaigns needed to fund many of the society’s member programs.

And if that isn’t enough, in 2008, she became Vice President of Professional Development (PD) for the world’s largest chapter of The International Association of Business Communicators, IABC/Toronto.  The PD team of volunteers design and deliver monthly educational events featuring Canada’s top online experts to public relations, marketing and web design professionals in the communications field. Yasmin and her team won IABC International’s Award of Excellence for 2008/2009 for delivering professional development events for the world’s largest chapter.

Yasmin is currently a member of IABC Canada ‘s Eastern Canada Regional Board as Director, Conferences for 2011/2012.

Tired just reading about her? Try working with her. She’s unstoppable.

WhatsYourTech.ca is her vision, aimed at filling the technology information gap in Canada’s online landscape.