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Our Staff
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Phil Adikes
President
888-261-5504 (Phils Desk)
Phil is from Long Island, New York, and he enjoys traveling, gardening, golf, baseball, and being a dad to 5 wild kids. Phil and his family have settled in quiet Albany, New York where he is happy to make a living e-marketing for Garden Centers and Nurseries across the United States.
When Phil was a young boy, his dad was in the fertilizer business and used to drive Phil around to visits with his nursery clients on Saturdays. Now it's 40 years later and the only major change is Phil does the driving. As the car pulls out of the parking lot they race to say "You know what I would do with that place?" It's a great thing when your job and your hobby merge.
- Favorite Movie: The Good Shepherd
- Favorite Place: The first tee on Saratoga National Golf Course
- Least Favorite Place: The Mall
- Guilty Pleasure: The New York Mets.
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Kathy Kinsley
Senior Developer
Kathy is from Cape Coral, Florida. While living in Florida, Kathy decided it wasn't close enough to the equator and moved to Thailand for a couple of years. She enjoys gardening, riding her bicycle, and designing websites.
If you call Kathy during the day, you will likely hear her music playing in the background. It might be classical, folk, rock or jazz - she also likes country, but only to dance to. Kathy has a personal library of over 3000 books and her favorite reading topics include science fiction, fantasy and popular science.
One of Kathy's favorite topics is Thailand. Living there for 2 years made quite an impression on her. She still misses the green curry, almost as much as the people. She went over to run an Internet Café, and found the people and culture charmed her enough to keep her there a while.
In addition to traveling, Kathy loves to garden, read, play online computer games, and dance to country music.
- Favorite Movie: Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
- Favorite Computer Game: Runescape.
- How we found Kathy: We posted a section of bad code on a technical website, and asked job applicants to tell us why it didn't work. Out of over 100 respondents, Kathy was the first, the most correct, and the most thorough. We had no idea at the time that she knew so much about gardening.
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Rickey Esto
Project Manager
Prior to coming on board with Garden Center News, Rickey was an Event Specialist for Boar's Head Meat & Cheese Products. Rickey is currently on staff with Garden Center News as the Project Manager.
In his spare time Rickey enjoys: Horseback riding, snow skiing, swimming, movies, the theater and autobiographies. Rickey has an Associates Degree in Culinary Arts, with a minor in English. Rickey is certified thru Microsoft Inc. in: Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Publisher.
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Ann Vucetich
Editor
Ann is a Southern California native and a resident of Whittier, where she raised two sons. She majored in English and minored in foreign language before beginning a thirty-year career as an English teacher. And because she still misses high school students (a little, sometimes) she is a volunteer tutor at the local literacy council. Her current student (three years now) is a fifty-something Korean man who is currently studying Asian Medicine in order to fulfill his dream of becoming an acupuncturist.
When people say to her, "You proof newsletters? What a boring job!," she answers "Are you kidding? I get to see beautiful newsletters from some of the best nurseries in the country. And I work with a fabulous team."
- Favorite authors: Philip Roth, Jane Austen, Tony Hillerman, Seamus Heaney
- Favorite Movies: All That Jazz, Lawrence of Arabia
- Favorite Food: Mexican (Southern California, you know)
- In the Next Life (just in case): She will major in Linguistics
- Guilty Pleasure: Ugly Betty
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Joe Ceriola
Application Developer
Joe lives in Manilla, Phillipines. He specializes in databases and PHP coding.
When Joe isn't working he loves action movies like I am Legend and other Science Fiction.
Joe is also a dedicated "Gamer", his favorite game is Special Force. When it comes to food, Joe has a powerful sweet tooth.
He loves chocolate and cooking classic Philippine foods. |
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Mahesh Sangam
Application Developer
Mahesh lives in Mumbai India; at 31 years old, he is the youngster of our group. Mahesh has never been to the United States, but we are planning an itinerary for him. He will have to endure 8 home cooked meals, and 100 hugs. He has become a part of our families.
When Mahesh takes a break, he enjoys listening to music, playing cricket and volleyball. Mahesh's favorite development tool is Flash and he likes to take on all of the really hard development work. The rest of us are glad to give it to him.
Mahesh has been a bridge builder for our team; we have all enjoyed learning about Indian Culture, and even felt a part of Mahesh's wedding plans. Mahesh married his lovely wife Srilata in June 3rd 2006. On the other side of the cultural exchange Phil is working hard to build Mahesh's fondness for the Mets, and contempt for the Yankees.
- Favorite Movies: Titanic, Catch Me if You Can!, Ghajini (Hindi)
- Favorite Place: Sitting at the Beach
- Favorite Music: JoJo
- Goal: To visit his friends in the United States.
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Srilata Sangam
Assistant Developer
Srilata lives in Mumbai India, with her husband of one year, Garden Center News Developer Mahesh Sangam! Srilata enjoys cooking, designing, painting, listening to music, and reading. Her passions are: meeting new friends, traveling to exciting places, singing her favorite songs, and her all time favorite...shopping for new clothes and things for the house. Srilata is a wonderful new addition to our Garden Centers News family, and she looks forward to enhancing her knowledge of new designing software tools to better serve our clients.
- Favorite Movies: Titanic
- Favorite Place: Mahabhaleshwar (Hills Station) & Tirupati (Holy, Pilgrimage Place)
- Greatest Challenge: Learning new design
- Favorite Singers : Lata Mangeshkar and Balasubramaniam
- Favorite Pass Time : Listening to Music and Watching TV
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Garden Center News
PO Box 11196
Albany, NY 12211
Tel: 888-261-5504, |
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