Who
Edward van Kuik
Edward van Kuik completed his Bachelor of Science majoring in Computer Science from University of Cape Town, South Africa in 1996. After university he worked at the Energy and Development Research Centre designing applications to optimise engineering design problems using genetic algorithms. In 1998, Edward started working for De Beers Marine as a Software Engineer in the Mineral Resources Unit working on mostly seismic-related systems in C++. In 2001, he started his own Company, Nitric Industries, (the one you're reading about now) and has been looking a little stressed ever since. Edward van Kuik believes in Linux, open standards and open source technologies.
Nicholas Spagnoletti
Nicholas is an experienced software developer. He graduated from UCT with an humanities degree in 2000. While studying he worked for his father's sofware business and began his PHP career by doing the company website. He gained more experience as a web developer at the .com era sports website Sportal before joining Edward full-time at Nitric in 2001. Since then he has worked on hundreds of projects of all sizes. The bulk of work has been in designing and implementing business operations systems for other small-to-medium enterprises. He is also a playwright - look out for his play London Road
Andrew Spagnoletti
Andrew is the father of Nicholas, recently retired from Korbitec and now teaming up with Nitric to launch his latest development, (Staff) Incident Management and Control. Andrew developed the AJS Legal Accounting and Practice Management System in 1980, which he sold to Global Technologies Limited in 2000, by which time AJS had a client base of approximately 450 legal practices in South Africa, from small to large. Andrew remained CEO of AJS within the Glotec group of companies for 4 years. During the last 6 months with Glotec Andrew spent considerable time with the employment law division of a major client, Cliffe Dekker, with a view to encapsulating the lawyers expertise into a Business Process Management engine developed by Andrew. This project was not completed because Andrew left Glotec and in late 2004 joined Korbitec to drive the development of Ghost Practice. A few years later Andrew developed a program specifically for small legal practices, before retiring from Korbitec in August 2010. Incident Management and Control was borne out of Andrew's experiences in software development over the years, and informed by the time spent with the Cliffe Dekker labour lawyers.
