Craig Schlegelmilch

Craig is the Director of Technologies for GystWorks and has been working in the information technology and digital media field for that last 7 years. A good portion of Craig’s career has been in systems integration with a specialty on content-based and multimedia applications. Craig is often asked to attach content as diverse to streaming video, web interactives or rich Internet applications to large enterprise systems including search engines and business intelligence components. Craig also brings a unique perspective as a business analyst. With a number of years experience as a BA, combined with his background in software architecture, Craig is in an ideal position to be a translator between an organization’s business unit and IT department. Craig holds and Bachelor of Science (Biology), an after-diploma (Software Architecture and Design) and a Citation (Business Analysis) from the University of Alberta.

What Owen says about Craig: "I first started working with Craig on a student project at the U of A. I remember our first discussions about the project and his lack of confidence in Flash as a technology that could do application level stuff. This was back when Flash was still relatively new to the whole rich media application scene. Then he really got into it and helped to really make a cool project. What I appreciate about Craig is that I can count on him to keep the team grounded and still make sure every idea gets a fair shake. I also admire his continual effort to stay technology agnostic. The easier route is to focus on one or two technologies that you get comfortable with, but Craig makes a point of keeping up to speed on almost every flavour of tech out there. Combine that with his excellent analytical talent and a passion for making sure the business model and the technology solution synch up means you have a great business analyst in the room."

Craig's company website: www.bucketduck.com