The New New Guy

Until about two minutes ago, my mini-bio at the bottom of these posts said I was “the new guy.” Today I’m happy to announce that we have a new “new guy.” A few weeks ago we announced that we were looking for a new account manager/tech support rep. We got a lot of great applications and narrowing it down to just one was hard. That said, we all were impressed when Mario Lurig walked through the door. He has a solid background in customer service and has the right combination of friendly attitude technical skill to solve the often-thorny issues that fill up the support queue.

He’s also a self-starter, which is obviously a big plus in a startup. To give you an idea of what that means, Mario, a philosophy major in college, decided to teach himself PHP. That’s pretty cool all by itself, but considering that everyone around here also taught themselves PHP, it’s pretty much par for the course at SurveyGizmo HQ.

But Mario went one step further. In order to really dig deep and get a solid understanding, Mario proceeded to write a frickin’ book about PHP! (Get it here.) So now Mario is both an account manager and the unofficial PHP reference for those of us who are too lazy to go look it up ourselves.

Mario geeks out about technology like the rest of us, so we know he’ll fit right in. Bonus points to anyone who can guess what t-shirt he’s wearing in the picture above. (Hint.)