Our Team

Besides having great relationships with our partners, contractors and free-lance resources, we have a dedicated team of project managers, developers, and designers that form the core of our business allowing us to give the best service possible to all of our clients.

Juan LopezJuan Lopez
President

Juan is a Systems Engineer that is MCSA and Network+ certified with a strong programming background in primarily Microsoft technologies for windows, mobile and web applications. Even though he started out programming applications for windows and mobile devices in .NET and Delphi, he later was involved in a series of web development projects especially in the online vacation rental industry. Using his experience and his network of contacts and friends he decided to build a team of trustworthy project managers, developers and designers that eventually formed into NearSource, Inc. His team has evolved over the years expanding their skill sets as clients demands have grown. Not only acting as a lead developer for many of the projects, he also acts as a skilled project manager and problem solver for anyone on the team. Besides being a senior .NET developer on board, he is also very knowledgeable with Windows Server management and administration and currently has a very active role in supporting and maintaining a lot of our servers. Even though his primary role is as President and Project Manager he still performs day to day duties in ASP.NET/SQL Server programming, client support, software architecture and much more.  Recently he and NearSource partnered with LoudCastle, Inc and spearheaded the development effort behind the Lead Optimizer platform for Aimsware which is a lead management and verification service that handles thousands of transactions a month.

Alicia MendaAlicia Menda
Business Manager

Alicia is a Systems Engineer with a professional background in Programming, Project Development and Public Relations. She is also a Certified Business Professional (CBP) in Project Management that was obtained at BorderCom International. Alicia has been key in assembling our current team of project managers, developers, designers and testers via a rigorous recruiting process that evaluates potential candidates and partners. She has implemented several workflow processes currently in place at NearSource to make sure all steps of the project development cycle is being executed as successfully as possible, from project initiation, development and delivery to project invoicing. She is also instrumental in setting the standards and guidelines for all of our html/css development to be W3C compliant and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) friendly.  She doesn’t only manage clients and business operations, she also has HTML/CSS skills and a programming background in C++/C++.NET using Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), SQL Server and other programming languages.

Helder MartinsHelder Martins
Project Manager

Helder is a Systems Engineer with a varied background in Web Development, Hardware/Network Administration and Project Management. Besides being very knowledgeable in Linux and Windows Server administration and management thanks to his days working at IBM and EMC, he also has a programming background which allows him to be assist his team on all web development projects. He spends a lot of his time keeping up with current and future trends to make sure that NearSource is up to date and will be able to provide the best solutions to our clients. Even though his background is more in the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) environment he is also familiar with Microsoft technologies such as ASP.NET and SQL Server. When clients are experiencing problems, he is their man to contact for the fastest and best solutions. He also provides a lot of support and assistance with site migrations, server patches, server maintenance for many of our clients.

Luis PalaciosLuis Palacios
Lead PHP Developer

Luis has been working at NearSource since 2005 and he is a Systems Engineer with extensive experience in web development going all the way back to 1999.  He has worked on many different types of projects using programming languages and technologies ranging from classic ASP, ASP.NET to PHP and open source platforms such as OsCommerce, Magento, ZenCart and Drupal. He has an ample background supporting and implementing custom solutions for our clients who have very specific needs and requirements that cannot be solved with off-the-shelf products. He is currently the lead developer for PHP/MySQL projects but his services don’t stop there, he also assists with regular website maintenance and updates using HTML/CSS and even Photoshop/Flash when needed.

Claudio CastilloClaudio Castillo
Lead Front-End Web Developer

Claudio is a web developer with an Advanced Technical Degree in Information Technology who has been working on websites since 2000. With his advanced skills in client side technology (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and his technical background he is able to create HTML/CSS web pages so that the development team can plug in their code as quickly and as efficiently as possible. He is not your ordinary HTML/CSS developer, he is also experienced in creating .NET Master pages for ASP.NET projects and works with a variety of content management systems ranging from open source platforms such as Wordpress, Drupal to commercial platforms like Compendium Blog and Ektron CMS400.NET. His work is not limited to creating HTML/CSS pages and developing or updating CMS templates, he is also knowledgeable in Flash Development and creative work such as designing or updating logos, resizing and editing images, creating email blasts, designing landing pages and web pages and more. He makes sure that our clients get their website content updates published as quickly and error-free as possible.

Migdalia RodriguezMigdalia Rodriguez
Web Developer

Migdalia is a Microsoft Certified (MCP) web developer with an Advanced Technical Degree in Information Technology and has more than 5 years of programming experience using Microsoft technologies from classic ASP to ASP.NET using Visual Studio.NET. She is specialized in C# programming and has worked with AJAX, LINQ, JavaScript, HTML/CSS and more. Her projects range from simple database driven websites using ASP.NET and SQL Server to developing mobile applications targeting the Microsoft Windows CE and Windows Mobile platforms including bar code scanner applications. She is also knowledgeable in developing and working with Web Services such as Chrome (www.chrome.com) for showing and comparing vehicles, and using 3rd party controls such as Telerik RAD controls and other 3rd party DLLs and components. She is familiar with the Ektron CMS 400.NET CMS system and has setup sites to work with this Content Management System and has done customizations. She has worked with the Open Source Liberum (www.liberum.org) Help Desk, setting it up and providing customizations to the source code for clients. Besides being a web developer, she is also knowledgeable in SQL Server, can normalize tables, manage indexes, write scripts and stored procedures, import text files, among other things.