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phillipdjwa 045Phillip Djwa, Principal and Web Development Practice Leader
Biography: Agentic is led by Founder, President and Web Development Practice Leader, Phillip Djwa. Phillip is a certified Internet Marketing specialist and researcher with more than 15 years experience in the high-technology industry. During this time, Phillip has worked on a wide range of technology and web-integrated communications projects for Fortune 500, high-tech start-up, and not-for-profit organizations. His clients have included the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, VanCity, BC Ministry of Labour and Citizens’ Services, Community Legal Education Ontario (The Law Foundation of Ontario), First Nations Schools Association, Granville Island (Canada Mortgage and Housing), and many others
A career-long social entrepreneur, Phillip has provided support to many worthwhile community initiatives, including the First People’s Heritage Council, Friends of Chamber Music, and First Nations Technology Council. Phillip has a BA from Simon Fraser University in Fine Arts with a concentration in electronic music, and an MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York. Phillip invites you to read his blog discussions on technology and social progress.
As Agentic Web Development Practice Leader, Phillip is the senior Agentic team member responsible for working with our clients on the strategic planning of their online initiatives; and designing, developing and implementing web-based and web-integrated projects for our clients.

Darko HrgovicDarko Hrgovic, Application and Database Development Practice Leader:
Darko Hrgovic is an advanced database and web programmer-designer skilled in the implementation of web solutions with various technologies, including XHTML, JavaScript, ColdFusion, ASP, and PHP. Darko also deploys multimedia content with Flash, Director, and various Adobe products. Darko is dedicated to sharing his technical knowledge, with more than eight years service as a teacher of web design, programming, and business applications for the Vancouver School Board.

As Agentic Application and Database Development Practice Leader, Darko is the senior Agentic team member responsible for modifying, configuring, and integrating open-source and proprietary application modules as part of Agentic’s web development work. Darko also is responsible for designing, developing, and deploying open-source and proprietary database components within client projects.
Ray CharlieRay Charlie, Web Developer
Ray is a web developer with over five years experience with a wide variety of clients, including Redway, Redwire, First Nations Education Centre, Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services and Luma Native Housing. He's passionate about working on great projects, and he's taken home awards from Native American Journalist Association and the Indigenous Arts Service Organization.

Emily Birr, Web Developer
Emily has a passion for design and illustration. Having worked with us for over a year, after she completed the UBC multimedia program, Emily has worked on most of our key accounts. Her prior experience included many years working in a high-paced television production environment, including 4 years working for the famed News Hour on PBS with Jim Lehrer.

Christine Daniels, Project Manager
After completing the New Media course at Vancouver Film School, Christine worked in the Streaming Media field as a Producer for 5 years doing many international events. She then took on the roles of Marketing Manager, Production Coordinator and Publicist for many projects over the two years of the worldwide launch of the documentary film “The Corporation”.

While working with Good Company Communications she collaborated on the development, coordination and execution of the many North American grassroots campaigns. Christine also produced the educational and 2 disc consumer version of the DVD. Additional projects included such films as “The Take” and “Scared Sacred”. In her spare time she enjoys such activities such as dragon boating, mountain biking and snowboarding. Christine is very happy to be onboard with the Agentic team helping to provide outreach for social change.

Catherine WintersCatherine Winters, Web Developer

With over a dozen years' experience creating websites, Catherine literally grew up with the web, having first taught herself HTML in 1995. Today, she brings to Agentic a passion for free and open software, user-centric design and social advocacy.

Catherine's interests include social media, microblogging and long-form fiction. Online, Catherine is best known as a scripter and programmer within the virtual world Second Life, coauthor of Second Life: The Official Guide and administrator of the LSL scripting wiki for the past five years.

A fan of sushi and the rain, Catherine has lived in Vancouver for six years. Her favourite punctuation mark is the semicolon and her favourite typeface family is Futura.

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