Developer

Dave has been developing websites since 2003 when he needed a web presence for the record label that he founded with several fellow musicians. In 2004 he also became the lead web developer for the Green Party of Alberta (Canada). In his search for a better web platform he found CivicSpace (The platform contributed to largely by other Advomatic developers and which evolved from DeanSpace - the platform used for the Howard Dean campaign in 2002). In 2005 Dave left his first career in music and started developing full time. Dave has also been a member of the CiviCRM development community since CiviCRM 0.8 (2005).

Nikki Henninger was pulled into the wonderful world of Drupal when her local newspaper, the Concord Monitor, put out a call for bloggers for a blogging community they were looking to start. When she responded with interest to become a blogger, she asked a few too many questions about what platform they were going to build the project on, and suddenly found herself hired for a temporary job developing the community. BlogsNH is now a thriving blogger community serving the capitol area of New Hampshire.

Designer/Developer

John (goes by Jack) Haas has been working on site design and development since his graduation at the Art Institute of Philadelphia in 2003. Shortly thereafter, he and a few other visitors of DailyKos.com conspired to create a website, BuyBlue.org, which would closely monitor the political contributions and financial ties of major corporate CEOs to the political parties which they support. In short, the goal was to find out which companies had a definite political slant, while informing the public of alternative companies which had records that were closer in line with their progressive values. In its short lifespan, BuyBlue.org was the subject of stories or editorials written in major newspapers (such as The Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Detroit News, San Francisco Chronicle), television appearances on Fox News and CNN, and several nationally syndicated radio shows. He would almost immediately become Board Director and Creative Director, and for over 2 years held those titles until moving on to focus on his freelance work.

Through the Buyblue.org project, Jack was forced to learn Drupal theming and ever since has been almost exclusively working on Drupal projects, doing full time theming work for several high-profile recording entertainment artists, progressive organizations, and startups.

Director of Development

Dylan Clear has worked in media production - video, streaming media and web - since 1993. He began his career in the NYC area working as a multimedia producer for the AICPA, a nonprofit industry group, where he launched and produced their live webcast series. After leaving the AICPA, he worked as a Senior Webcast Producer for Lehman Brothers, a Wall Street investment bank.

A passion for the empowerment of progressive movements thorough new media led him to Bioneers, where he worked as Web / IT / Digital Media Director for 3 years, spearheading an organizational transition to enterprise-level IT networks, professional digital media production, and technology-driven operations. He also led their migration to web-based CMS and CRM software, developed by Advomatic. The new site immediately tripled the organization's earned income, and was nominated for a 2007 Webby Award in the Charitable Organizations category.

He was hired by Advomatic in 2007, where he manages web development for America's leading advocacy and progressive organizations by an international team of premier Drupal developers.

Dylan has a BA in English from Rutgers University, a Masters of Science in Information Technology from Capella University, and has studied web design and production at NYU. He is currently based in Santa Fe where he lives with his wife and two children.

Developer

Marco Carbone stumbled upon Drupal when he started running the Internet operations for Nevada's Question 7 campaign. He hand-built several modules that in the course of the campaign recruited hundreds of volunteers, handled tens of thousands of phone banking calls, and kept track of tens of thousands of door knocks. He participated in a GOTV push that included mobile phone messaging and interactive Google maps with voting locations. After Election Day, he came to the crushing realization that 44% is not greater than 50%, but that Drupal 5 *is* greater than Drupal 4.4 (and 4.7, for that matter). Impressed with the Drupal community, and wanting to give back while continuing to use Drupal for the right causes, he found a place working at Advomatic.

Before his move to Nevada, Marco received a B.S. in Computer Science at Tufts University, followed by a Masters and an ABD in the same at Harvard University, where he studied several topics in Artificial Intelligence. Following that, he spent a year at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society of Harvard Law School working on the H2O project, where he developed most of the back end of the H2O Playlist project.

Marco lives in Reno, NV, and enjoys exploring petroglyphs, reading long works of historical fiction, and watching television shows on HBO dealing with the failings of our urban institutions.

Senior Developer

Ankur Rishi is a SF Bay area native that joined Advomatic by way of CivicSpace Labs. Ankur started working with Drupal at CivicSpace in the Fall of 2004. He holds a B.A. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an M.S. in Computer Science from CSU Hayward, where he followed a course of study emphasizing client-server applications. While at CivicSpace he developed and implemented projects such as the first widely-used automated installer for Drupal as well as the location module. Prior to Drupal, he worked several jobs in education.

Director of Strategic Communications

What is Strategic Communications? Read more here.

Fred has been blogging since 2001. Immediately before joining Advomatic to aid Democrats and progressive organizations, Fred was Director of Communications at the municipal level in New York. Creative use of technology and online social networks got him into City Hall. During the underdog campaign Fred utilized social networks such as MySpace.com and Migente.com to recruit, coordinate, and communicate with volunteers as GOTV Director and Communications aide.

A previous election found Fred blogging as Online Communications Director for Parks1, an issue advocacy campaign in New York City. Fred built and ran the daily blog, website, database, and mailing system that managed the 30,000 New Yorkers they identified, the 386 partner groups they recruited and liased with on activities and lobbying, and the 84 candidates who agreed to New Yorkers for Parks' pro-Commons policies. Parks1 featured a vigorous media strategy, city-wide field operation, and direct political contact including a Mayoral forum. Some of his cutting-edge outreach tactics were reviewed at Personal Democracy Forum and here.

In 2004, Fred worked with 21st Century Dems' Young Voter Project "VoteMob" in Ohio. VoteMob featured innovative use of SMS, P2P, and FlashMob-style canvassing and viral volunteer recruitment which targeted Cuyahoga County voters under 25. This was a highly responsive demographic in Ohio which was called by many "the Silver Lining of Kerry/Edwards." Young Voter turnout increased an average of 90% across VoteMob's targeted precincts. Much of the rest of the state (and other demographics) didn't do as well.

Web Developer / Project Manager

Aaron Winborn has been a professional web designer and developer since 1998. Before joining Advomatic, he worked as a freelance designer, developing sites for several not-for-profit organizations, small businesses, writers, and other individuals. Experienced with Drupal, he lends a helping hand to the Open Source community, of which he is proud to be a part. He has an extensive background in html, javascript, css, php, sql, and flash.

Senior Developer / Drupal Hacker

Neil studied Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He worked on Hack4Dean with his classmate, Zack Rosen. Hack4Dean was renamed to DeanSpace as the project gained momentum. Neil grew up in Iowa and was able to volunteer at the Iowans for Dean office in Des Moines while on college vacations. There he worked with Aaron and Adam on the web team, which was using the DeanSpace software.

In March 2003 the DeanSpace idea got funding. Neil dropped out of college and moved to San Francisco to co-found CivicSpace. He designed various Drupal modules, unforked as much of the source code as possible, and made improvements to the Drupal platform. He decided to leave CivicSpace a year and a half later.

Neil now frequently contributes to Drupal and has extensive knowledge of its internals. He has significantly contributed to Drupal's aggregator, block administration, and has done numerous code and user interface cleanups. He develops Drupal modules and patches to Drupal for Advomatic.