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GVS team bios

Greg Knaddison

Greg (drupal.org user greggles) is a developer, site builder, security analyst, and trainer for GVS. Before finding Drupal, he built several web applications for telecommunications companies using a mix of databases and programming languages and acted as a QA/release engineer for one glorious fall. Greg's studied Information Systems and East Coast psyche at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

Greg founded GVS with the goal of building a boutique firm that balanced a mix of professional services and direct-to-consumer products. He has worked on client sites including Economist.com and California Closets. Some of the internal projects he has worked on include Mastering Drupal's Tutorial Videos, the Drupal news site DrupalDashboard.com and the local news sites BakerNow.com and Ice Cream Denver.

In 2007 Greg pulled together people he had met locally and started the Denver Drupal User Group meetings where experts and new users get together to share tips and ideas about using Drupal. His most prominent contributions to the Drupal project are the maintenance of major modules like Pathauto and Comment Notify and helping build Groups.Drupal.org. Shortly after joining the Drupal Security Team Greg embarked on writing Cracking Drupal the only book about using Drupal securely. As a member of the Drupal Association General Assembly, Greg helps support Drupalcamps and improvements in the drupal.org infrastructure.

Greg has presented at Drupalcons since Sunnyvale in 2007. His favorite presentations include Using Token Module as a Developer from Drupalcon DC in 2009 and [Strategies for Community Contributions]http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/strategies-community-contributions) from Drupalcon San Francisco in 2010.

Greg is Certified to Rock Level 9.

Greg enjoys photography, economics, biking, and traveling in Spanish speaking countries. Read his blog and follow him as @greggles.

Ezra Barnett Gildesgame

Ezra Barnett Gildesgame (drupal.org user ezra-g), is a developer, trainer, and interaction designer at GVS. His background includes a mix of independent Drupal consulting and work at leading Drupal firms for top-tier publishing clients, among other technical computer work. Ezra first got involved with the Drupal community through the issue queue for modules like Fivestar, and by maintaining the Subgroups for Organic groups module. As part of the 2008 Google Summer of Code, he created two modules that extend Nodequeue - Smartqueues for Organic Groups and Smartqueue per-user, and he eventually became Nodequeue's maintainer. Interested in using Drupal for event management systems, Ezra designed and built the Signup for Ubercart integration module and is currently leading the Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) project to help make it easier to build event websites in Drupal. Ezra and Greg co-authored an e-book about Drupal.

Ezra has presented at Drupalcons, camps, and user groups since Drupalcon Sunnyvale in 2007, on topics such asIntro to Module Development, and has helped to organize several DrupalCamps in New York. Within the GVS team, he's had a blast working on projects like Economist.com, Harvard Magazine, and FusionDrupalThemes.com.
In 2009, Ezra was interviewed by Lullabot's Drupal Voices about the UC_Signup module and in 2010 on the DrupalEasy podcast about the Conference Organizing Distribution.

Ezra is Certified to Rock Level 7.

Outside of Drupal, Ezra is a passionate music lover, concert-goer, recovering guitar player, aviation nerd ,recreational photographer and on Twitter as @ezrabg.

Ben Jeavons

Ben Jeavons (drupal.org user coltrane) is the lead of our Security Review service, a developer and site builder, and works on internal projects like Certified to Rock. Ben holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder and has been building on the web since 2001.

Ben has contributed a few drupal.org modules, notably the Security Review module and the Uniqueness module, a module which helps discover similar content. As a member of the Drupal Security Team he assists in the release of Security Advisories and making contributed modules just a little bit more secure. He also co-authored the Drupal Security Report. You can certainly agree that he is interested in security!

Ben has presented at several DrupalCons since 2009 and has helped organize the last several DrupalCamps in Colorado.

Ben is Certified to Rock Level 6.

Other interests of Ben's include riding his bike and traveling. He occasionally blogs on http://benjeavons.com and talks about random stuff on Twitter @benswords.

Lisa Rex

Lisa (drupal.org user lisarex) is heavily involved with usability, information architecture, content strategy, documentation and Drupal site building. She has been a web professional since 1999, working as a designer, site builder, writer and QA/product analyst for dynamic, content-rich sites.

Lisa has been involved in several GVS client projects, plus internal projects such as COD, the Conference Organizing Distribution and Mastering Drupal.

Her primary contributions to the Drupal community include maintaining drupal.org About pages, community pages and Documentation. Lisa was also one of the project managers for the drupal.org redesign, which involved managing 100+ volunteers, contractors and thousands of community stakeholders. Past contributions include revising and reviewing patches for Drupal 7 UI text and help pages; and volunteering as an assistant organizer for Drupal DesignCamp Boston 2009 and 2010 (D4D).

She has presented at DrupalCamp Montreal, Drupal Design Camp Boston, and DrupalCon Copenhagen.

Lisa is Certified to Rock Level 5.

Lisa's other interests include travel, baking, history, genealogy and playing outside. You can find her on LinkedIn and as @lisarex on Twitter.

Carl Wiedemann

Carl Wiedemann (drupal.org user c4rl) works as a Drupal themer and developer. He has been building websites professionally since 2006 and has come to embrace open source and agile development practices.

Carl's recent work with GVS includes theming and development for IxDA (Interaction Design Association) and California Closets. He has also contributed design and theming to Certified to Rock.

Carl has contributed to the open source community as a presenter and trainer at the Drupalcon Conference in North America and Europe. He helped with theming on the drupal.org redesign project. He has volunteered at Drupalcamp Colorado and the local DBUG (Denver Boulder User Group) meetups.

Carl is Certified to Rock Level 4.

Carl enjoys running, biking, skiing, and collecting records. Ping him on twitter @c4rl.