CMSMS | CMS Made Simple

Ted Kulp

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Location: Fairless Hills, PA, USA (GMT - 5)
Birth Day/Age: March, 1976
Position: Project Leader/Benevolent Dictator
Forum or IRC Nickname: Ted / Wishy
Website: http://shiftrefresh.us/

Details:
After 6 years of working in his father's metal shop doing drafting and machine programming, Ted fell into the world of professional software development. Now 5 years into it, there is no chance that he will ever escape the clutches of programming for a living.

He started CMS Made Simple while looking for something to do after throwing in the towel on the Boss Ogg project. The original idea was to find a CMS for mpd, but after getting frustrated trying to find the perfect one, he decided to jump in a build his own. It's all been downhilll from there...

He lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife, daughter, and beagle.

Skills and Abilities:
Ted has been a professional software developer for approximately 10 years. He can program in a wide array of languages (PHP, Ruby, Python, Java and .net just to name a few), and always stays on the bleeding edge of new technologies and methodologies. His company, Shift Refresh, is now in business and ready to handle your needs.

He's also a decent welder.

Service Offerings:
* CMS Made Simple module development
* CMS Made Simple support contracts
* Ruby on Rails, PHP, Java, ASP.Net development

Robert Campbell

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Location: Calgary, Alberta Canada (GMT -7)
Birth Day/Age: June, 1970
Position: Project Manager, Developer, Module Maker
Forum or IRC Nickname: calguy100*
Website: http://www.calguy1000.com

Details:
Tired of all of the complaints from aunt's, uncles, parents and grandparents of "Send me pictures!", and too cheap to go to walmart get copies made and mail them out to the horde, Robert decided "the family can get the pictures off of the web, all I have to do is build a website." A couple of years later after working hard at doing all the pages (rather badly) in pure HTML Robert stumbled upon CMS made simple. Within 15 minutes it was up and operational, and he was busy looking into add this and that cool feature to his site. He soon dug in and began using his 13+ years as a unix/windows C++ geek in the seismic industry to his advantage in a new (to him) programming language, PHP. He's been writing addons for, and contributing little bits here and there to CMSMS ever since. When he's not glued in front of the PC working on one program or module or another, he's spending time with the family and kids (all five of them), and trying to find time for all them fun but costly outdoor sports like 4x4ing, fishing, archery, hunting (and the list goes on).

Skills and Abilities:
Robert specializes in programming and unix administration. No network or program is too small, for him. He has extensive experience working in unix (Linux and "Solaris), and in programming in a variety of languages (C, C++, PHP, Perl, Javascript, Shell Scripting).... etc. To Robert, Programming is just programming, it doesn't matter the language, syntax doesn't take long to learn.

Service Offerings:
* CMS Made Simple Support Contracts
* CMS Made Simple Custom Programming
* Custom Programming
* Unix Administration

Samuel Goldstein

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Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA (GMT - 8)
Birth Day/Age: 1967
Position: Developer, module maker
Forum or IRC Nickname: _SjG_ or sjg or variants thereof
Website: http://www.1969web.com

Details:
Samuel has been involved with programming for over 28 years, starting with Basic and Assembler on a TRS-80. His professional experience began in the Aerospace Industry, and then he rode the dot-com roller coaster for as long as he could. Now, he is a principal at 1969 Communications. If he won the lottery, Samuel would sponsor the CMS MS Foundation, write some really nice modules, and spend the rest of his time reading literature, studying history, building robotic artwork, watching classic movies, hiking, and/or running a ceramics studio. Samuel lives in Los Angeles with his wife.

Skills and Abilities:
7th Level Programmer
Str: 9, Int:10, Wis: 10, Con: 7, Dex: 8
* Character Skills: Programming in Java, PHP, Ruby, Javascript, Perl, SQL, XSLT, CSS, etc.
* +1 saving-throw against table-based layouts, +4 saving throw against ASP.NET
* 4th level Photoshop skills, with +5 roll for Photoshop scripting.
* Obfuscatory documentation and buzzword-compliant verbal prestidigitation (+2).

Service Offerings:
* Custom CMSMS sites and modules.
* Web site and web application development.
* Consulting / contracting.

Morten Poulsen

Location: Elsinore, Denmark (GMT+1)
Birth Day/Age: May, 1973
Position: Developer (mainly modules-oriented)
Forum or IRC Nickname: Silmarillion

Details:
Half a musician and half self-taught programmer Morten really never decided which career to focus on, leading to a life of a little of each.Living mainly off more or less freelance work as a pianist and music teacher, he likes to spend whatever time is left on different kind of computer projects, some of which is managed through a small consulting company of his own. Having tried to manage some established CMS's he once decided to write his own Nuke-style CMS with a flexible plugin architecture, but it never made it that far off the ground (some sites do exist still running the system known as LiteNuke, though). Discovering CMSMadeSimple, which presented some of the same philosophies as he had tried, somewhat unsuccessfully, to implement in LiteNuke, he decided to get to know, and try to help in the development of, CMSMS instead. He is both contributing to the core system and developing several addon modules.

Nuno Costa

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Location: Aveiro, Portugal
Birth Day/Age: Feb, 1975
Position: Developer, Quality Control, CSS/XHTML Design
Forum or IRC Nickname: nuno
Website: http://criacaoweb.net

Details:
Since the age of 17 Nuno has worked in a wide range of areas, ranging from production lines in factories, sales and even private security. After purchasing his first computer to draft a rapid transport of documents a few years ago, he also required a website with a database for customers to see the status of orders. From that point he never stopped in the area of web design and graphics. Nuno is self taught, has devoured many books and manuals, and developed dozens of sites (both normal and dynamic). He has been trained in the areas of Graphic Design and Multimedia. Nuno discovered CMS Made Simple after an enormous frustration with another cms (which we shall not name), It goes without saying that he will never leave.


Service Offerings:
* Custom CMSMS.
* Layouts and themes/templates.
* Euros receiving.

Alberto Benati

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Location: Ferrara, Italy
Birth Day/Age: April, 1961
Position: Developer, MLE-version
Forum or IRC Nickname: alby*
Website: http://www.tonkerland.it

Details:
Since 1992 was under contract with the University of Ferrara where his passion for the programming started to develop (from Visual Basic to Pascal, to Perl up to PHP) and, since 1995, a new interest in Linux and Internet. Founder of the 4NET Communications Internet Service Provider where he was also the Techical referent, Network Manager and System Administrator for several Internet domains. In 2003 tried to build his own "another CMS system", but everyday work slowed down the free time he had to bring this project to an end. In 2005 discovers CMSMS and hey, this was exactly what he was looking for and it was really great! The only missing thing was the multilingual and since 2007 he's the maintainer of Multilingual Edition (MLE) of CMSMS. In the same period he started to be interested in the Devil-Linux distribution for which he is a developer also.

Ronny Krijt

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Location: Raalte, the Netherlands (GMT +1)
Birth Day/Age: May, 1971
Position: Quality Assurance
Forum or IRC Nickname: RonnyK

Details:
When Ronny stumbled upon CMS Made Simple while looking for a good CMS, he spent hours on the forum and IRC, to get the additional information to complete his first CMSMS based site. After the first site was completed, he remained on both the forum and IRC to support others that had questions to get their site up-and-running. After having spent several hours in both the forum and the IRC, he is now leader of the Quality Assurance team. He is also moderator for the Dutch board and doing forum/irc-support.

Service Offerings:
* Custom CMSMS sites

René Helminsen

Location: Fredrikstad, Norway (GMT+1)
Birth Day/Age: January, 1965
Position: Translation Team leader and on Testing team
Forum or IRC Nickname: reneh or variants thereof
Website: http://www.helminikon.no

Details:
René started his own business in 2000 as IT consultant. He has education as physiotherapist and has been working in that area for more than 10 years. Circumstances made him start in his family business in 2002 as IT-administrator and with administration in general. After some tough experiences with content updates of static web pages he wanted to just take care of the design and structure of the site himself and let other edit the stuff inside. While looking for a system which would save him time avoiding to update his business static web pages René discovered CMS Made Simple in the spring 2006. After a short while with testing he had to consult the chat room about missing Norwegian translations of strings - and the friendliness that met him made him to contribute himself. He now uses CMSMS for the most of the sites he make. René is now teamleader of TranslationTeam and does Norwegian translations. He also helps with crash-testing before new CMSMS releases.

Skills and Abilities:
He has been working/playing with IT since 1982 and is self-taught sys-admin / webdesigner / consultant.

Service Offerings:
Setup and customisation of CMS Made Simple sites for local companies and organisations.

Keith Lauchlan

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Position: Marketing and Information Team
Forum or IRC Nickname: utter*
Website: http://utter.co.uk/

Tyler Boespflug

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Location: North Dakota, USA
Birth Day/Age: April, 1984
Position: Support Team, Website Manager
Forum or IRC Nickname: tyman00
Website: http://www.tyjobo.com

Details:
Tyler's career in web development started for him in high school. He had a free day at school since half of the kids were not in attendance that day. After roaming the halls of the school for awhile he found himself in the computer lab. He stopped at the web design section and very quickly he designed a few pages with text, images and links. Having fun with this project he wanted to continue but found the short comings of Frontpage would hinder his progress. Tyler then continued to expand his skills and used Dreamweaver as his weapon of choice. In time he learned HTML and used Dreamweaver mainly for a templating tool to make site wide changes. He dabbled in some PHP and Perl gallery and forum applications.

Years later Tyler became familiar with CMS Made Simple after a customer requested to have the option to update their own website once he designed it. After spending many stressful nights trying to find a CMS that would work well for him and for the customer (something he couldn't seem to find in other applications) he found CMS Made Simple. After testing a demo of CMS Made Simple he knew within minutes he found what he was after. He quickly un-installed the other CMS's he had tested, installed CMS Made Simple and never looked back. He finds CMS Made Simple to be a perfect application for him since he can accomplish numerous tasks without being a mad scientist or programmer.

Tyler currently works in the financial industry as an IT Administrator. When asked what he does for his job he chuckles and says "I work on pretty much anything that plugs into the wall. If it needs to be installed or repaired, I am the man of the hour. In my current job I've fixed servers, toasters, vacuums, ATM's, teller terminals and check scanners."

When not geeking out, Tyler thoroughly enjoys working with his hands. He says it is a welcome release from sitting behind a set of monitors all day long. He enjoys doing DIY projects around the house, landscaping and working on cars and trucks. Once and awhile he likes to use his Class A trucking license and hit the road hauling a double load of trailers for his parents business.


Skills and Abilities:
Forcing technology to perform as needed, not as it was designed to do.

Service Offerings:
CMS Made Simple Implementation and Customization
Graphic Design
Web Design
Network Consulting
Windows and Citrix network administration
German Beer tasting

Mark S. Reed

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Location: Tucson AZ.
Birth Day/Age: December 55
Position: Support Team
Forum or IRC Nickname: mark or maksbud
Website: http://multiintech.com

Details:
I have always wanted to know how everything works, some of my earliest memories are of taking apart everything not nailed down, and some that were, then reassembling it.

I started bringing junk home at a very early age, had to figure out what was wrong with it and maybe fix it or use it for something else.

I have been in construction (building things) since I was big enough to swing a hammer, I just love to build and fix anything, so when my brother upgraded his PC he gave the old one to me and I had no idea how to use it but curiosity kicked in as usual and I started tinkering and it's been down hill ever since I fried a video card and PCI slot in that mother board.

Started working on the repair of PCs in all forms, hardware problems, software snafus and then it was off to do web sites.

Well, after hand coding them in notepad I got tired of having to change the menu structure by hand on all those pages so I looked and found that you could do it with a software system on the server, Content Management System, I started checking out a lot of CMSs, none were setup in the way I was used to with flat files, till I found CMS Made Simple in March of 2006 and I would never use another, they just don't stack up.

The ease of installation, intuitive admin interface, a great variety of modules, I especially like the way the template and style sheets are set up, and a great forum for support.

I found a lot of answers on the forum when I first started out and soon found a few questions I could answer and have been trying to give back to the community ever since.

I specialize in getting templates, style sheets/CSS working in CMSMS. I can take any image or existing template and get it to work, sorry but I haven't found one yet that I couldn't do. Bring it on. I have extensive knowledge of the menu manager which allows me to get some interesting results.

Noel McGrain

Address: White Rock, BC Canada
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Position: Support Team
Forum or IRC Nickname: NullG

Details:
Noel's IT career started over 25 years ago, as a COBOL programmer for large systems. With the advent of Local Area Networks, he moved over to network administration where he kept busy installing, configuring and managing LANs in a large corporate environment. This environment ultimately evolved into Wide Area Networks (WANs) and Enterprise Networks (ENs) and Noel was there every step of the way, leading the design aspect of the environment. Eventually, Noel got involved in building internal and external corporate websites, utilizing his programming skills once again. A couple of years ago he started a "hobby" business doing web design and hosting, hoping to build a solid clientèle as a "part time" post-retirement source of income. He discovered CMS Made Simple in 2006 and has been using it almost exclusively for web development ever since.

Pierre Morin

Address: Paris France
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Birth Day/Age: 1973
Position: Support Team
Forum or IRC Nickname: Pierre M.
Website: http://www.hermione.com/

Details:
Pierre likes Pineau des Charentes and Free software (since 1995). Once trying to make a little W3C compliant website using the poor man's toolbox (templating via Server Side Includes...) he discovered CMSms and its intuitive, simple, user friendly, database backed, integrated, powerfull templating system with attached style sheets and multiuser management (and more : menus, RSS, modules...). He never looked back. Since then he enjoys the CMSms project : new features, bug fixes, shared tips, open improvements etc.

Skills and Abilities:
Skills and abilities : * Multimedia tech (from VoD to cyberspace interactions Wink * Venture business advisory, entrepreneur coaching * Organizations, OSSAD, work flows * Distributed, collaborative information systems * Inter-net minded

Service Offerings:
* Euros receiving Wink * Thanking