Florida DrupalCamp

Presenters

Addison Berry

Addi (add1sun) has been involved with Drupal since 2006 and is the current Documentation Team Lead for the project. In March 2009 she was awarded a Knight Foundation grant to improve Drupal documentation. She travels around the world, speaking at events from local high schools to major conferences like OSCON, working to improve Drupal and Open Source software.

Andrew Riley

Andrew Riley is the Associate Director of Software Development at Mindcomet.  Andrew manages developers and Provide best practices for web development while being vocal about what Mindcomet does.

Andrew has been a professional web developer for over 12 years and have worked on a variety of languages, both open and closed source.  The past 3 years of his life life he's been working primarily in Drupal for various clients.

Charles Wheelus

Charles Wheelus is a co-founder of HarmonyLogic, an Internet Consulting firm. Mr. Wheelus is an Internet professional with a distinguished career. An avid Internet user since 1991; Mr. Wheelus is a published columnist and invited guest speaker at industry events including Comdex. Mr. Wheelus has also been called as an expert witness in Internet related litigation. He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and anticipates the receipt of his Masters degree in Computer Science from Florida Atlantic University in May of this year. Subsequently Mr Wheelus intends to pursue his Ph.D.

Chris Mitchell

Christopher Mitchell is a Senior Software Programmer at MindComet. Christopher has taught several courses as an Associate Course Director at Full Sail University pertaining to front-end and server-side Web development. His passion for all things Web led him to the Discovery of Drupal where he specializes in creating robust themes for an array of clients.

Damien McKenna

A self-professed geek, Damien has focused his career on something practical and tangible - web development. Having built more than his fair share of content management and e-commerce systems in a variety of languages and frameworkds, he was first introduced to Drupal in 2007 by Ryan Price.

Don VanDemark

Don VanDemark is a Delivery Executive for IBM but uses Drupal to support his fantasy sports leagues. He is currently starting an initiative to open the world of sports statistics at open-stats.org.

Doug Vann

Doug Vann is a Drupal Developer & Trainer for Chicago-based Duo Consulting.

Doug entered Geekdom as a fifth grader in 1983 with a Commodore 64 and a 300baud connection to CompuServe. Twenty-seven years later he leads the Indiana Drupal Users Group and develops in Drupal full-time. Catch Doug's blog at www.DougVann.com. Google "Drupal Song," and you're likely to find a few videos of Doug, jamming on the guitar, unabashedly proclaiming his passion for Drupal!

Erik Baldwin

Erik Baldwin is one of the co-founders of CLoud NYNE Design, a Florida based Drupal Web Development/Design and marketing company.

Most people would say that Erik Baldwin is determined, driven and dedicated to maximizing his potential. On way he has acheived this is by being an active member in his local Drupal User Group. His experience as a Graphic Designer coupled with his Adobe(r) Flash(r) development skills has proven to be vital while working with Drupal.

Gaelen Adams

Gaelan is what some call an "ubergeek". He's been a technologist since age five and his first website visit to lego.com (It looked a lot different back then!) Known as "Captain Intern" in the Drupal community. He posses a passion for education; he enjoys teaching, training and helping others with their drupal woes. To complement his educational career of obtaining a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida he's taken to drupal like a duck takes to water.

Jeff Decker

Jeff Decker is a co-founder of WebEnabled.

WebEnabled provides a turn-key development environment for Drupal developers; we take the "administration" out of "system administration."

John Studdard

John is a serial entrepreneur and award-winning former CIO and CTO. He has a reputation for positioning companies as technology leaders and innovators and is an expert on cutting-edge internet and enterprise technologies. He has a proven record of success in ECommerce, Internet Media, large-scale IT operations and Software Engineering.

Marc Ray

Marc Ray is an active member of the Drupal community and is passionate about applying open source tools to develop technology platforms. He brings to the project ten years of experience in web application development, application deployment and server architecture and technology infrastructure research.

Michael Anello

Michael is one of the co-founders of DrupalEasy.com, a Florida-based Drupal consulting, training, and media company.

Ryan Price

Ryan’s passion for Technology is as a means to unleash creative endeavors. He is an open source developer, community evangelist and trend spotter who harnesses his experience in project management, web applications, and interactive design to build markets for businesses, and users for web sites.

Salim Lakhani

Salim Lakhani is a co-founder of WebEnabled.

WebEnabled provides a turn-key development environment for Drupal developers; we take the "administration" out of "system administration."

Salim has a BS from UC Berkeley and a MS from CMU. He has consulted with many large companies like Intel, Cisco, Motorola, Sears, and J&J but his passion is teaching, helping others, and working with non-profits.

Sean Conner

Sean Conner is a co-founder of HarmonyLogic, an Internet Consulting Firm. Sean began using computers after receiving a TRS-80 Color Computer for Christmas when he was 14. He was introduced to this new thing called "The World Wide Web" in the early 90’s while in college and has been working on websites and webservers ever since (he even remembers the first version of PHP). Recently, he's jumped head first into Drupal, having to integrate a module from another framework.

Ted Bowman

Ted Bowman is an independent Drupal developer living in Gainesville, Florida. He specializes in custom Drupal modules and sites. He is the creator and maintainer of the modules GMap Extra Markers and Password Require. In addition to Drupal development, Ted works with Moodle, an open source learning management system. He created and maintains the popular Map module for Moodle.