Rich Malak has worked in the Information Technology field for the last 17 years, most of which have been spent creating web sites and database applications in a variety of technologies, and managing teams that have these responsibilities.

Before joining Fuseideas, Rich was the lead of the Online Department’s technical and design teams at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (http://www.rferl.org). Over a period of eight years, he transformed the organization’s Internet presence to support 25 websites in a variety of languages, more than 1000 weekly hours of audio and video streaming, and over 50,000 daily e-mail subscriptions. He accomplished this was by putting systems and software in place to automate most day-to-day technical activities. For his work, Rich received annual Presidential Awards and Outstanding Employee Bonuses every year he was with the organization.

Rich has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia and has since gone through in-depth training for .NET programming, SQL server programming and administration, managing people and conflicts, and best practices in web site usability and content architecture. Rich currently lives in Prague, Czech Republic, where he has lived for nearly 15 years, fulfilling a lifetime dream of living in Europe while maintaining close professional and personal ties to the U.S.A.