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.

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.

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.