News and events

OpenRoad is thrilled to have recently added two fine new folks to our team.

World Usability Day happened on November 12, 2009 and a small squad of Vancouver user experience professionals got together at 8:00 a.m. at the Pine Street Community Garden to spend the day together, wondering how to best bring our professional expertise to bear on the issue of “sustainability”—the theme for WUD2009. Cat, Ben, and Barb […]

The team has grown a fair bit in the last few months here at OpenRoad and we’re pleased to announce the arrival of another great developer: Rodney Gitzel. Rodney’s web development expertise goes as far back as OpenRoad’s 15 year history, as editor of Euphony Net-Magazine the first online arts magazine in Canada and publisher […]

OpenRoad is pleased to announce the addition of Vince Pan, Project Manager to the company. Vince Pan joins the OpenRoad team as a Project Manager/Business Analyst. With a Mechanical Engineering degree from UBC, Vince began life as a Project Manager 14 years ago at an engineering consulting firm. The intrigue and allure of the software […]

It’s already the end of April here at OpenRoad and 2009 is going quickly. We’re pleased to say that we’ve added some great new employees here and watched one of our sites go live. (spring has sprung at the OpenRoad office. photo: gordonr) Welcome again to Selma Zafar, Mark Johnston, Jen Gerth, ThoughtFarmer’s Allie Henze […]

Clicklaw is a public website that aims to be a unified point of access on the Internet to diverse sources of legal information, education and help in British Columbia. The project is sponsored by the PLEI Network, is funded by the Law Foundation of BC, and is being led by the BC Courthouse Library. Clicklaw […]

OpenRoad is pleased to announce the arrival of three new web development professionals. Selma Zafar (Senior User Experience Designer), Mark Johnston (Web Developer), and Jennifer Gerth (Quality Assurance Engineer) have officially joined the OpenRoad team. Selma Zafar has over 10 years experience in designing innovative and usable software and hardware. She ensures that the needs […]

OpenRoad is pleased to announce the arrival of four new professionals. Bryan Robertson (Senior Analyst), Mona Mok (Project Coordinator), Stephen Calvert (Web Developer), and Bill Stilwell (Web Developer) have officially joined the OpenRoad team. Bryan Robertson has over 10 years of internet industry design and management skills, including a tenure as the Executive Producer of […]