Personal
- Website
- http://www.lowemo.photo
- Full Name
- Lowell Montgomery
- About Me
For the past several years, I have worked with Cocomore in a number of capacities related to Drupal. I started with an internship there, in Web development with a primary focus on Drupal-related projects and joined their development team as trainee, after which I continued to work with them as a freelancer, mostly researching and writing articles (and translating others from German) for the English-language pages of the Cocomore Drupal Blog. In 2012, I started working full-time with Kairion GmbH, a Cocomore "start-up", as Systems tester. This eventually lead me to a point where I realized very little of my work had anything to do with Drupal anymore, so it was time to come back to my real interests and passions. I've returned to freelance/part-time work, to allow room to do more things with Drupal again as well as to pursue my photography. (Because some critical modules were not yet available for Drupal 8, I decided to build my portfolio in Wordpress, which has some plugins that help integrate stock photo sales, one of my current goals. Most of the work is on my images, figuring out a professional workflow, and working on the image adjustments and metadata, but some contact with Wordpress has also been interesting, as it had been about a decade since I'd last used Wordpress for anything. Originally, after learning Drupal, I still knew Wordpress was a good alternative for newcomers. Now I'm not so sure about that, and that's a good thing. Even for simple sites, I think Drupal 8 has taken us a long way, although there are still some "last mile" steps to be made to have it be as simple as Wordpress to set up some kinds of sites. Anyway, for my fellow Drupalistas, I'm sorry I've been off and busy working on a Wordpress site, but I think my cross-CMS experience will be useful in the Drupal community... at least once I have a bit more time. ;-) (I also have a couple projects I want to start that I'm planning to build on Drupal 8, so plan on seeing me back in the Drupal fold very soon).
I first heard about Drupal a few years back, when I was learning PHP (studying with the Open University and taking courses in software and Web applications development) and starting to look at what could be done with frameworks (which we weren’t allowed to use for our course projects, unfortunately). I remember watching a video clip of Angela Byron talking passionately about Drupal 4.7 (or maybe 5.0?) and how awesome it was. I was sold on Drupal, but it wasn't until Drupal 6 that I really started working with it on a first personal project that had enough complexity to get me deeply into Drupal site-building (with lots of CCK/Views/Fivestar reviews, Webforms, user profiles, Rules, and other FunStuff™. It utilized over a hundred contrib modules and gave me some basis in theming and fixing small code issues. I then got to know the local Drupal community and started an internship with Cocomore and it went from there. I even wrote a small module that got some significant use. (I wrote it before Drupal 7's official release, so there wasn't much at the time. Now I doubt it's worth upgrading it to Drupal 8, but we'll see).
But enough about me... if I haven't already met you at a Drupal event, I'm looking forward to meeting you at a coming meetup, Drupalcamp or Drupalcon. If you're in the Frankfurt area, I'm also likely to be found on hiking, cycling, or photography outings with local Meetup groups and may also be found at certain business, technology, and social events. If we've already met, I look forward to seeing you again, soon.
Business
- Organization Website
- http://www.LoweMo.photo
- Organization
- Freelance (site building, content, SEO, photography)
- Organization Profile
For the past years, I've been working on Cocomore's , mainly in systems testing and automation. Before that work filled to much of my weeks (and sometimes even during that period), I was the primary author of English content in the Cocomore Drupal Blog, organized Drupal events, such as the D7 release party, a code sprint we hosted for migrating modules to Drupal 7, and played other community roles.
Anyway, I have a long passion for writing content, building websites and working with Drupal and the community, so have recently returned to part-time/freelance to regain enough freedom to work with Drupal and on personal projects I'd like to make my "primary job". I hope to have more time to contribute to Drupal and the greater open-source community and might be available if you have a temporary or part-time role that could use my skills.
I look forward to seeing you at a future camp, Drupalcon, or meetup.
History
- Number of times voted
- 6
- Co-organized events
- 2
- Submitted events
- 1
- Organizer of groups
- 0
- Member for
- 16 years 26 weeks
- Primary profile
- Profile on https://www.drupal.org/