Members

Below is a list of self-described Members of the Drupal in Education group. If you want to be included, please subscribe to this group and then EDIT this page and add yourself.

This list is sorted alphabetically by FIRST name (because you're more likely to know people by first than last name). As a guideline, each entry should include some or all of: Name, Company, location, related expertise/projects/sites, what you're seeking in this group, interesting factoid about you. Be creative.

Arman Anwar - CTO and Co-Founder - NewHelix - Washington, DC Area

• My company focuses of Drupal development for large sites.
• We have done some work for Universities
• The higher education arena is of great interest to me personally.

Bill Fitzgerald - FunnyMonkey in Portland, OR

• FunnyMonkey works primarily in education, with clients at all levels, from K12 to higher ed to professional development organizations to companies working in the learning space. We also work with non-profits/companies with an organizational mission that aligns with our goals.
• Maintainer of DrupalEd
• Teacher for 16 years; Technology Director for 10; always looking to collaborate with people who are passionate about developing and using good tools to support learning.

Bryan Ollendyke - (http://elearning.psu.edu/projects) Instructional Technology Specialist, e-Learning Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA

• The e-learning Institute creates technology enhanced courses for the College of Arts and Architecture
• Lead programmer for the e-Learning Institute
• BS from PSU in '06, working towards MS. After attending Drupalcon Boston I've altered the direction of my projects at eli to be equally beneficial to the community and to our department / courses.
• Currently creating the Drupal user's group at Penn State and pushing the envelop on how Drupal is portrayed in education.

David Hamilton - Director of Web Services, Amherst College, Western MA, USA

• Managing development and maintenance of a medium-sized drupal instance for the last 2 years: www.amherst.edu
• Case study describing what we've been doing
• ~10 years experience working on web apps in higher ed, with stints at Bowdoin, Skidmore, and (currently) Amherst.

David Wees - Amateur web developer and Mathematics teacher - Currently based in Thailand

• I've been using Drupal to create a number of smaller sites that are portions of the overall web structure of my school successfully.
• I'm interested in developing a 'complete' package for schools where everything but the time-tabling itself is done in Drupal.
• I've created a number of modules in the past.

Doug Worsham - Instructional Technologist, L&S Learning Support Services - University of Wisconsin, Madison

• I am working on platforms for student collaboration and social lesson planning, and I really enjoy learning from the many many Drupal gurus this group!

Erik Britt-Webb - IT strategist, independent consultant in Boston, MA

• Working with Drupal for 3+ years, for nonprofits, schools, churches, personal, etc.
• Looking to share best practices with other Drupalers and help productize Drupal-based offerings
• Primary profession is Management Consultant, working with CIOs and IT leadership teams to improve the role and use of IT inside large companies

Erik Peterson - Associate Director of IT - EDC - Boston, MA Area

• My company is a non-profit organization that designs and delivers programs in all facets of education and human development.
• We build sites for internal and external use and have a large commitment to online learning (http://www.edtechleaders.org)

Mel Ausman - middle school tech and science teacher.

• I've been trying to use drupal with moodle to provide an alternative to the district's and school's current commercial web service that is very expensive. Also, want to add a file storage area for students to have access to work done at school to be easily continued at home.

Patrick Corbett - Partner - Redfin Solutions - Denver, CO Area

• My company creates mostly medium to large, non-profit Drupal sites
• I also work for the Adams 12 Five Star Schools district in Thornton, CO, which runs on Drupal
• I am looking for others in an educational setting who work tirelessly to convince others how great Drupal is and learn more techniques for school-related Drupal installations (multisite, internationalization, intranet, etc.)
• I am also interested in talking with others who are stuck in a Microsoft-only environment.

Richard Noble - Secondary School Maths Teacher and amateur web developer - Bangkok, Thailand

• As webmaster for my school, I have just redesigned and developed our site using Drupal. There are some great features and loads of possibilities that Drupal offers and I haven't yet got to grips with, but with only a month using the system then I am still very much learning.
• Also run a number of other (non Drupal) sites, including Schools.ac which is a site for International Schools around the world.

Chris Wells - Partner - Redfin Solutions - Boone, NC Area

• My company creates mostly medium to large, non-profit Drupal sites
• I am looking for others in an educational setting who work tirelessly to convince others how great Drupal is and learn more techniques for school-related Drupal installations (multisite, internationalization, intranet, etc.)
• Drupal could soon be the officially-supported CMS for Appalachian State University (I'm a graduate student there) and am doing my best to evangelize it
• My graduate work is in Technology Education, and I hope to teach programming, networking, and web stuff at the Community College level, and would like to leverage Drupal in my classes

Stuart Johnson - Physicist, teacher and web-developer

• New to Drupal and here to learn. But I've been pushing educators and students towards the web since day one.
• My time is occupied as lead of the ClaSS project, a student information system.

Mixel Kiemen - MOSI Assistant at Vrij Universiteit Brussel - Belgium, Brussels

• Teaching:Web Service Development of Business. In this course students will develop a drupal module as part of a bigger web service development project. The course is given in the 1ste year Master of Management.
• Teaching: Exercises Databases (normalization & sql), I've been using the drupal DB for the sql exercises.
• Research: I'm using Drupal in research projects/experiments for MOSI and for ECCO