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Mark Leggott (President & CEO). Mark was the founding architect for Islandora.
For more than twenty years, he has been at the forefront of research and
entrepreneurship in the academic, information technology, and data stewardship
sectors. As a professor, University Librarian and a private sector business owner,
he continues to show leadership throughout his distinguished career. |
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Joe Velaidum (Vice-President). Joe is the Vice-President of DGI and is responsible
for client and agent relationship management, business development, lead
development, and contract management. He has been a customer of, and a
significant contributor to the development of the Islandora software and has shown
leadership in the use of emerging open source technologies at the University of
Prince Edward Island, where he is also a professor. |
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Paul Pound (Chief Technology Officer). Paul was the chief architect and lead
developer for the Islandora software suite. He is responsible for the ongoing technical
development and enhancement of DiscoveryGarden’s product and services suite as
well as management of our technical services and support team. |
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John Eden (Chief Operations Officer). John manages the cross-functional
issues within the company, creating the proper flow between different tasks,
operations, and departments to ensure all elements of the company are
working in sync. He has, for more than a decade, led both private sector
and public sector teams in information technology, interactive media,
broadcasting and public investment. John has previously led companies
at the VP, Director, and COO levels, and has started and led a start-up
company in the video game sector that continues to operate successfully
today. |
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Chris Leary (Chief Financial Officer). Chris is responsible for the general
management of the company’s finances participation in strategic planning
activities, preparation and analysis of monthly financial statements and
reports, preparation of budgets, funding applications and grants and
managing internal revenue and cost control systems. He is a Chartered
Accountant, Certified Management Consultant and Certified Information
Systems Auditor with over 23 years of professional experience, including
5 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consulting practice. |
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Maria Maund (Project Administrator). Maria graduated from UPEI in
2007 with a BA in Women’s Studies. She spent a number of years working
at a local Apple reseller and service provider before coming to
DiscoveryGarden in the winter of 2011. As Project Administrator she assists
in the planning and implementation of various projects. She is also the
go-to person for various miscellaneous tasks. In her spare time she enjoys
baking, as well as training and showing her reining horse. |
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Laura Kelly (Sales & Marketing; Lib20). Laura works part-time on
marketing and the Lib2o project at Discovery Garden. When not working
at DGI Laura spends her time walking her dog “Sprout” and finishing her
PhD in Political Studies at Queen’s University. She is writing her
dissertation on 19th century co-operative theory. |
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Dorothea Salo. Dorothea was immediately hooked when she first heard
about Islandora in 2009. She had many years experience running
institutional repositories and believed that Islandora was leaps and bounds
ahead of anything else out there. Two years later, she still believes that it's
the most versatile and flexible repository stack in existence. She joined DGI
in the summer of 2011 and has been helping with social media, documentation,
and usability testing. |
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Jonathan Green (Developer). Jonathan is an embedded C/C++ developer
who has come over to the darkside (web technology development) and hasn't
looked back. At DGI he works with cool web technologies to make Islandora
awesome. His hobbies include grepping through linux kernel code, finite state
machines, robots and long walks on the beach. |
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Nigel Banks (Developer). Nigel graduated from UPEI with a Major in
Computer science and a minor in Business Administration and Mathematics.
He also has project management training. He worked for over 5 years as a
Game Developer with Other Ocean Interactive, mostly with C/C++. There
he focused on AI, user interfaces, game play, sound, and graphics processing.
He also picked up small web/development jobs from UPEI, before coming to
DGI. In his spare time Nigel enjoys traveling, drumming, bare foot running,
rock climbing, beer tasting and of course programming/software architecture. |
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Will Panting (Developer). Will is a programmer/analyst at DGI. He has a major
in Computer Science and a minor in Business from UPEI where he was the
president for Bernardine Hall for his last year in residence. He was a manager at
McDonald's before getting a job working for David LeBlanc at UPEI. Then he
joined DGI. Will was drawn to Islandora because “it's a wonderfully complex
and mostly FOSS stack that is a great way to stretch my abilities with high visibility
early in my career”. His favourite thing about Islandora is that it strives to be a
good FOSS community member. He really enjoys his job because he work with
some very awesome developers that he can learn a great deal from. Also, it's next
door to four pubs. |
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Adam Vessey (Developer). Adam is a software developer who came to DGI directly
out of the University of Prince Edward Island, where he received his bachelor's in
Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics. Adam says, “My being here may
be attributed in part to the fact that in my last year at UPEI, I participated in a project
course which happened to involved the Islandora software stack.” Adam thinks
Islandora is nifty. He tends to spend his free time in some combination of reading,
computer games, eating and sleeping. |
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TJ Lewis (Developer). TJ was born and raised in rural PEI and currently lives in
Charlottetown with his wife Kathryn, dog Jax, and cat named Alpine (yes after
the beer). He attended Oulton's College in Moncton, NB where he graduated from
the Advanced Programming course. He has his Zend Certified PHP Developer
certification. TJ enjoys playing guitar and spending time with friends . Before coming
to DGI TJ Spent several years as a Programmer Analyst and Server Administrator for
the Province of PEI. Then he moved on to work as an IT Consultant for the largest
independent IT firm in the world. He spent four years as a Programmer Analyst and
Server Administrator for a company providing software to the non-profit sector. TJ has
also worked as a Server Administrator for several Large-Scale web hosting companies. |
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Jason MacWilliams (Developer). Jason has been sampling all sorts of different parts
of the programming world since high school, ranging from small scripting programs
and database design all the way up to computational modeling for astrophysics. He
graduated from UPEI in 2007 with physics and math, spent 4 years building his skills
at several different companies, and then found himself digging deep into
DiscoveryGarden projects. As the first physicist to join the DiscoveryGarden team,
he hopes to help tackle problems from a slightly different perspective than his
teammates. |
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Kirsta Stapelfedlt (Repository Manager). Kirsta Stapelfeldt, (MA, MLIS) is the
Repository Manager at the University of Prince Edward Island and manager of UPEI's
Islandora project. Through the Robertson Library's Virtual Research Environment
Service (VRE service), librarians and developers at UPEI are supporting over 140
repository projects. Kirsta is a graduate of Dalhousie's MLIS program, with a
background in project management, online information literacy, knowledge
translation, communication, and university teaching. |
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David Wilcox (Training/Support Coordinator). David provides and coordinates
end-user support services for the Islandora/VRE client community. He develops training
materials and resources, customizes Islandora instances, and supports the community
of Islandora users. David holds a Masters degree in Library and Information Studies from
Dalhousie University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours in Philosophy from
St. Thomas University. |
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Gervais de Montbrun (Systems Administrator). Gervais manages the servers that
support the Islandora projects. He brings over ten years of system administration
experience to the project and hopefully keeps everything running so smoothly that no
one notices that he is even there.
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Richard Wincewicz (Developer). Richard has been working on the Islandora project for
just over a year as both a developer and a sys admin. In a previous life he was a research
chemist working in the pharmaceutical industry in the UK. |
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Peter Lux (Library Systems). Peter has been working with Fedora at UPEI since 2008 and
presently is working with library systems as well as various Fedora installs. He has also
developed custom Islandora implementations with various research labs at UPEI and NRC. |
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Ben Woodhead (Release Manager). Ben is the current release manager for Islandora,
focused on architecture and simplicity. He has experience as a system administrator, firewall
administrator and developer. He is volunteer Fire Fighter and UPEI has been very supportive. |
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Alan Stanley (Senior UPEI Developer). Alan has been developing core Islandora code
since 2010. He’s specialized in data transformations, Solr implementation and configuration,
and GUI functionality, but finds himself delving into all the dark recesses of Islandora code.
Alan is passionate about programming in general, and this project in particular, but he’d rather
be out on the water. It’s important to note that he is not capsizing in this picture, but executing
an aggressive low brace turn. |
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Kris Bulman (Digitization Tech). Kris graduated from the Photography and Digital Imaging
program at Holland College in 2007. He has a background in professional photography, technical
support, and Drupal theming. As a Digitization Tech, Kris manages and maintains digitization
work-flows and equipment to keep things running smoothly. |
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Donald Moses (Digital Initiatives and Systems Librarian). Donald works with the systems,
development, and digitization teams at the Robertson Library. His favorite Islandora project is
islandlives.ca, closely followed by islandvoices.ca and islandimagined.ca. In his spare time he
tends bees and likes to make things. |
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Courtney Matthews (Community Liaison Librarian). Courtney is a graduate of both King’s
College (BA) and Dalhousie University (MLIS). He’s the project manger of TourPad, Islandora’s
evolving mobile repository discovery app. Courtney’s hobbies include running, wearing suits,
and talking about his feelings. |
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