Briefly:

Born in the Netherlands and raised on Vancouver Island, AKA "Miska" is a country turned city girl. Her interest in digital photography and image manipulation led her to BCIT where she met her soon-to-be colleagues Robert Scales, Mark Yuasa, Erik Hermans.

With diverse experiences from photography darkrooms to business administration, she brings organization and balance to Raincity Studios without which everyone would be confused, grumpy and thirsty (and unpaid ;-)).

Factoids:

Favorite City to Visit?

Amsterdam & Barcelona (so far)

Favorite thing about living in Vancouver?

You can live in the burbs but everything is still relatively close by without taking a ferry!

Why Drupal?

why not?

Beverage of choice?

non-boozy cold: cranberry juice and gingerale

non-boozy hot morning: earl grey tea

non-boozy hot afternoon: hot apple cider

boozy cold: Strongbow Cider

boozy hot: After-Eight hot chocolate with Baileys

Where/when did you first get online?

1991ish at boarding school

Ficitonal character you’d like to have a beer with?

007, but we'd be drinking martinis... (shaken, not stirred!)

Website you actually go to often

– for fun not work?

Not much time for fun surfing anymore... but I guess Dora the Explorer and Polly Pockets to help teach the munchkins to use the 'puter

Hobby you hardly ever talk about?

knitting, pottery, gardening, baking... there are many

Favorite Raincity Studios project?

Do I really have to pick one?

Fave dish (that you can actually cook)?

Bitterballen, Nasi Goreng, Bami, Indonesian Sate, apple pie, there are so many!! yum yum!!!

Raincity staffer most likely to win at Jeopardy?

Definitely not me! I'm blond you know!

Favorite techie word/acronym?

TWAIN

Fave “analog” tool?

Cork screw

Another profession would you like to try?

Sitting on a beach, making money with my lottery winnings... failing that, hitman.

Rather attend Ballet or Opera or Symphony?

Symphony

Best concert ever?

Hmm... tough one... probably a tie between Dave Matthews and Phish at the Gorge. Its just such a great venue!

Co-worker who makes you laugh?

Each and every one of them at one point or another

What do you “bring to the table” at Raincity?

Office mom

Your best tech skill?

spending the company's money online? :P

Country you want to visit that you’ve never been to?

South Africa, Italy, Norway, Scotland, Ireland... do I have to pick just one?

Where’d you go to school? Why?

BCIT for New Media & Website Development... it just happened... plus Malaspina University College in Nanaimo studying Business Management.

Three words of advice to younger developers?

Don't burn out! (get enough sleep and fresh air!)

What do you collect?

Sand from all over the world. If you go somewhere, bring me some!

Drupal module you want to build?

Automatic-no-effort time tracker... please? somebody? anybody?

Previously jobs:

photography industry working in labs as a custom black and white darkroom printer