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The Team

Andy Walker

Andy Walker is the lovable funny man in Lab Rats and other butterscotch.com shows. He's also the General Manager of butterscotch.com and the brains behind the operation. This just goes to show that he's multi-faceted. Andy is a highly respected technology journalist whose columns have run in major outlets across Canada and the US. He has lent his expertise and wit to four books including Windows Vista Help Desk (Que Publishing) and You Call This the Future? (Chicago Review Press). A former host of Call for Help with Leo Laporte, Andy brought his affable character and expertise to the show and fans fell in love. Not content to just help readers and viewers get the most out the technology they use, he started the charitable organization Little Geeks to provide working computers to underprivileged families in Canada to ensure they don't find themselves on the wrong side of the digital divide. Andy is the Executive Producer and General Manager of butterscotch.com.

Sean Carruthers

Sean Carruthers accidentally found himself in the world of tech journalism in 1997 after years of selling CDs to underage prairie gangsters. Sean Carruthers has been writing, podcasting and broadcasting about technology for over a decade. Sean joins butterscotch hot on the heels of a gig as Content Producer on the G4TechTV program The Lab With Leo Laporte. Previous to that he's worked on the Canadian production of the TV show Call For Help, served as the Test Lab Editor for The Computer Paper / HUB: Digital Living magazine, and launched the successful tech podcast Lab Rats. His writing has been featured in The Globe and Mail, the Village Voice, allmusic.com, and other technology and music publications. Sean is a Senior Producer at butterscotch.com.

Amber MacArthur

Amber MacArthur has gained an online following that is nothing short of huge. Her work has struck a chord with netizens. In addition to her work with butterscotch.com, Amber is the New Media Specialist for cable news channel CP24. A former host of numerous programs on G4TechTV Canada, Amber is never content to rest on her laurels; she hosts and produces the incredibly popular podcasts commandN and TWiT.tv's Net at Night with co-host Leo Laporte. She also manages new media consulting firm MGImedia. As a technology strategist, Amber has consulted on projects in San Francisco, Boston, and Toronto for clients such as Microsoft, Adobe, and Anthony Robbins. Amber brings her experience, expertise and enthusiasm to butterscotch.com as Director of Content.

Matt Harris

Matt Harris makes the magic behind the scenes. He is the all-seeing, all-knowing, all-producing glue. Matt got his start at OMNI Television in 2002 and in 2004, became an Associate Producer on Call for Help with Leo Laporte. In addition to breaking him in to the fast-paced world of daily programming, it introduced him to co-hosts Andy Walker and Amber MacArthur. The rest is, as they say, history. Matt became the producer of "The Lab with Leo Laporte" and he co-created, produced and hosted Torrent, a one-hour program that profiled the best of video podcasts and helped bring the medium to the masses. Matt has contributed to many successful online shows including our own Lab Rats, Digital Underground TV and commandN and also hosts the behind the scenes show On Deck. Matt is a Senior Producer at butterscotch.com

Greg Weir

A grizzled veteran of the web, Greg Weir has been working online for more than 25 years. Starting out with a successful online bulletin board system (BBS -- kids, ask your parents) in the Decade of Decadence, the 1980s. He has even owned his own computer retail store in Toronto; how's that for geek cred? As Webmaster for Canada's largest independent internet service provider (ISP), Internet Direct, Greg was among the valuable acquisitions when the company gained Tucows. Greg is the Director of the Content Division of Tucows, sits on the Board of Directors for the Association of Shareware Professionals and is the tried-and-true Director of Technology at butterscotch.com.

Andrew Moore-Crispin

Andrew Moore-Crispin is the words guy at butterscotch.com. He has made a career of living with and commenting on computers, consumer electronics and interactive entertainment and brings a true end-user perspective on the fast changing world of technology to butterscotch.com with a little humour for good measure. An expert guest on television shows and networks such as CBC news, TVO and Call for Help on G4TechTV Canada, Andrew is also a regular interview subject on the impact of technology on modern society for newspapers, magazines and radio. Andrew is also rumoured to enjoy long walks on the beach and candle lit dinners. Andrew is Web Editor at butterscotch.com

A. Alfred Ayache

A. Alfred Ayache is the mad web applications architect who brings all the butterscotch.com elements together, and presents them in a neat website package. In spite of his vast and varied background (over 35 years in IT), Alfred still can't understand why anyone would willingly use Internet Explorer for everyday browsing. His assaults on the media have included a front-page picture on ComputerWorld, and more recently, the season opening interview on CBC's Search Engine. But he assures us he's not done yet, darkly hinting at various butterscotch.com infiltrations. Alfred is Webmaster at butterscotch.com, and blogs at http://notoriouswebmaster.com.

Chad Cramer

Chad Cramer is the guy in the back room that you never hear about but without whom things would eventually come screeching to a halt. He's been at Tucows for the past 11 years overseeing development. Chad is a self-proclaimed expert at just about everything including MySQL, Oracle, C++, Perl and most recently PHP. He has a computer science degree from the University of Michigan as well as an MBA from the University of Phoenix. In his spare time, he works with various schools and other non-profits throughout the United States helping them update their technology and keep things running smoothly. As Software Engineer with butterscotch.com, Chad keeps everything running.

Dr. File Finder

Michael E. Callahan has been helping users find the software that fits their needs for so long, he's better known by his trademarked name, Dr. File Finder. He got his start reviewing software online in 1982. It's not every day you get the benefit of a technology writer whose expertise predates the current World Wide Web. The good Doctor has evaluated a staggering 240,000 software and hardware products since those early days. Michael Callahan / Dr. File Finder is the preeminent expert on shareware and brings his experience to butterscotch.com as Senior Content Producer.

Stacy Reed

Stacy Reed lives the life online; she's been doing so since 2000 when she began reviewing software for Tucows. As an advocate for the free exchange of information, software and services, Stacy tells it like it is in butterscotch.com tutorials. Natural curiosity and interest in a wide array of subjects including software, technology, science and the arts make her an ideal guide. An advocate of open education, Stacy brings her expertise to butterscotch.com as Content Producer.

Ted Gallardo

Ted Gallardo hasn’t got it easy. He’s butterscotch.com’s Customer Service Representative/Writer. Interested in all things computer since he first fell in love with his Apple II Plus, back in grade school, he would move on to using an Apple IIC. Not much later, Windows beckoned, and Ted mastered the ancient 3.1. It’s a cliché, but so be it: the rest is history. It took a lot of work, but Ted is now equally comfortable in front of a Windows PC, Mac OS X or Ubuntu Linux machine. He began working with Andy Walker and Cyberwalker.com in March 2005, and has been System Manager for LabRats.tv since day one. Ted’s hobbies and interests include: Debian, Drupal CMS, FusionBB, HTML coding, Mac OSX, Ubuntu, and most versions Windows. He wouldn’t divulge any other passions. Ted also has three cats, Arline, Henry and Torti. And that makes him particularly special.

Molly McDonald

Molly McDonald, aka DemoGirl, has been creating screencasts of web applications since April 2006. She believes that seeing how something works is much more effective than reading how something works and wants to help "your mom" understand how to use hip, new web technology. Molly is editor-in-chief of DemoGirl.com where she reviews new web applications in the form of screencasts. She has recorded hundreds of screencast demos of web applications that she hopes will make peoples' lives a bit easier and more fun.

Cheryl Poirier

Cheryl's roots in technology can be traced back a generation; her father worked in the industry in the 1960s through the 1990s. As the only student in her Grade 7 class handing in book reports printed on a dot matrix printer, she was ahead of her time. Cheryl took a sabbatical from the industry to focus on a hands on career in healthcare and after her long, meandering journey has once again landed her smack dab in the middle of the family business. Cheryl is excited to be involved in the industry that lends so much to the story lines of some of the greatest science fiction ever written. Cheryl joins butterscotch.com as the host of Miss Download.