Our Team

Greg Knaddison

Greg (drupal.org user greggles) graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and then quickly moved back to lovely Colorado. After doing database analysis and intranet development projects for Arthur Andersen and PricewaterhouseCoopers he moved to a boutique software firm working in the same telecommunications industry.

That mix of experience -- highly organized and professional experience in the consulting world to a more formal software development startup in Broomfield -- has provided him with a broad background and experience in the many varied stages of software creation and implementation. At the same time, his personal technology interest in Open Source software has grown from a single home Linux server to the use and involvement in a number of Open Source projects.

Greg got involved in Drupal after being the "webmaster" for his neighborhood organization. Rather than putting content online, Greg realized that with a system like Drupal the neighborhood members could put their content online themselves.

Involvement in Drupal Project

Greg started using Drupal over 3 years ago, quickly jumping in with both feet. Since then he has become more and more involved in the project:

Helps maintain the project webservers as a member of the drupal.org Site Maintainers and infrastructure teams.
Member of the Security Team which led to various presentations about security in Drupal and writing a book about Drupal security
Volunteer time and advice as a member of the Drupal Association General Assembly
Founded and help coordinate the Denver/Boulder Drupal User Group

Steve Harley

Steve (drupal.org user garbanzito) studied computer science and English at Yale University, and worked at Yale in artificial intelligence and operations research. He then moved to Boulder and spent several years alternating between software development and the publishing industry, ultimately combining both fields—consulting and training on complex publishing workflows, and on developing tools for publishing automation.

After a four year hiatus in Minnesota working on larger database systems Steve returned to Colorado, settled in Denver and built up a consultancy. His general strengths include database design, dynamic scripting languages and project analysis. He strives to use flexible, efficient methods in the agile development family.

Steve has been involved with web development as a sideline since 1996. As a neighborhood activist installing and maintaining an assortment of simple community websites, Steve encountered Drupal in 2006 and it stood out as an environment and a community that suited him in many ways. Drupal became Steve's professional focus in 2008.

Ezra Barnett Gildesgame

Ezra Barnett Gildesgame (drupal.org user ezra-g), has been working with Drupal for three years and is an active community member. His project experience includes sophisticated site architecture and complicated data migrations. He co-maintains and has contributed to modules that utilize some of Drupal's key APIs, such as Nodequeue and Subgroups for Organic Groups, and has implemented features and bug fixes for many others. As part of the 2008 Google Summer of Code, he created two modules that extend Node Queue - Smartqueues for Organic Groups and Smartqueue per-user. He presented on Drupal module development and theming at Drupalcon Sunnyvale 2007 and Washington, DC 2009, as well as regional groups in New York City and Denver.

Ezra is currently co-authoring Drupal in Action, an in-depth guide to building enterprise websites using Drupal.

Evelyn Wilder

Evelyn (drupal.org user missWilder) is a graphic designer with seven years experience in print and web design, and has designed everything from print advertising to trade show booths to digital event programs. She is looking forward to learning a lot more about Drupal now that she’s joined Growing Venture Solutions to work on Design and Usability.

Evelyn attended UCLA and has a background in film editing, having a first career in motion picture post production in Los Angeles, her hometown. Her transition from editing to graphic design was a smooth one, as both require a fine eye for detail, a mindfulness of technology, and a focus on communicating the desired message most effectively. Embedded in every good design, for print or web, is an understanding of how the audience will receive or use that end product; this is a particular strength Evelyn brings to all her projects.

Carl Wiedemann

Carl Wiedemann (drupal.org user c4rl) comes from an agency background with emphasis in business strategy. His broad experience stems from work in design, development, search engine optimization, web standards, web strategy, and project management.

Carl's primary focus in the Drupal community is support, and making Drupal approachable for beginners. He became involved with the Colorado Drupal community after attending DrupalCon DC in March 2009 and has since presented sessions at DrupalCamp Colorado, DrupalCon Paris, and BAD Camp.

Carl graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in architectural engineering.

Ben Jeavons

Ben Jeavons (drupal.org user coltrane) cut his teeth on Drupal building grassroots-media, online communities for the Enthusiast Group in Boulder, Colorado. Over the last two years he has worked on enterprise-level sites doing architecture, project management, custom module development, and performance review. He maintains modules on drupal.org, is a member of the Drupal Security Team, and has presented at two DrupalCons. A Colorado native, Ben is a graduate from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a degree in Computer Science.

You can follow Ben on Twitter or see more from his blog Ben Jeavons.com.