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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, my 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:

  1. Helps maintain the project webservers as a member of the drupal.org Site Maintainers and infrastructure teams.
  2. Member of the Security Team which led to various presentations about security in Drupal and writing a book about Drupal security
  3. Volunteer time and advice as a member of the Drupal Association General Assembly
  4. Founded and help coordinate the Denver/Boulder Drupal User Group
  5. Present about Drupal to various groups (Colorado Linux Users and Enthusiasts and the CU Denver Association for Computing Machinery
  6. On DrupalDashboard.com - Greg keeps track of every new module and change to the Drupal code base highlighting the most important items. This keeps him informed about changes to Drupal and assists others in the community to get just the news they need.
  7. Develops and maintains many popular modules (and some obscure ones). See Greg's blog post "modules I have developed and maintained" for details.

Greg loves Drupal and his GVS teammates. He hopes you will take the time to get to know and love them as well.

  • By ezra-g at 2008-12-10 11:00

Steve Harley

Steve 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 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.

While his focus had been on desktop applications and workflow consulting, he did minor web projects for many years. In a sideline as a neighborhood activist he used, installed and maintained an assortment of simple community websites; Drupal began to stand out as an environment and a community that suited him in many ways. Drupal has become Steve's professional focus, in which he can apply all his experience and talent.

Ezra Barnett Gildesgame

Ezra Barnett Gildesgame (drupal.org user ezra-g), has been working with Drupal for two 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 Node Queue 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 has presented on Drupal module development and theming at the 2007 Yahoo! Open Source Summit in Sunnyvale, California and at Drupal User Groups in New York City and Denver.


  • By ezra-g at 2008-12-10 17:35

Evelyn Wilder

Evelyn (drupal.org user missWilder)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 comes to Denver by way of Los Angeles, her original home town, where she graduated from the film program at UCLA. She enjoyed a rewarding career as an assistant film editor and documentary editor for ten years before deciding to move to Denver, Colorado for a more diversified life. (There’s a saying in Hollywood that it takes ten years to break into the film business and ten more to break out. Evelyn broke out much faster.)

Bringing her training in film editing to graphic and web design was an easy transition, as both require a fine eye for detail, a mindfulness of the technical aspects, 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.

  • By evelyn at 2009-04-28 16:47