Artashes, you should look at your very own Daniel Hellier, Dan the green man @TFL.

http://www.danielhellier.com

Most of his work looks good and I think he meets the "respectable and lovable" semi-requirements.

Plus he's good looking too .

Oh and I'd like to wish GOODLUCK to the poor soul that gets the task of coding for vB 4.0 (if you guys are upgrading) hell even vB 3.X is a messed up job -_-.