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	Bay Nature Magazine Bay Nature is "An Exploration of Nature in the SF Bay Area". They've been one of my favorite magazines since they launched in 2001, and I connected with them to build a web version of their publication. I developed a custom (Plone-powered) content-management system and integrated several 3rd party apps and services including OpenAds, the Pleiades Geocoding engine, a robust Varnish-based caching system, and a bespoke mapping application. I'm really pleased with the final product and look forward to visiting this site to find new places to explore and continue learning about the natural world around me.
	USAID Resource Management Portal USAID is the government agency providing US economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide for more than 40 years. The Resource Portal is an online library which houses more than 10,000 resources on topics relating to international development. The Zentraal team provided performance tuning and HTTP caching acceleration configuration for a high-performance computing cluster. We onsistently provided responsive support to the technical team on their most challenging technical issues. We implemented a new visual design for the USAID Resource Management Portal which met all federal and international standards for accessibility.
	California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences is consortium of 3 UC campuses (UCSF, UCB, UCSC) developing effective new solutions to the world's most urgent biological problems through multidisciplinary research, innovative educational programs, and industrial and venture capital partnerships. The Zentraal team configured an administrated a custom high-performance Debian Linux server. We provided performance tuning that increased site performance from 4 requests/second to 30+ reqs/sec while reducing server RAM usage by 50%. We consistently provided responsive support to technical and scientific staff We successfully transfered server administration and software development skills to UCSF staff enabling them to reduce costs by managing more of their infrastructure in-house.
	Nature and More Nature and More Foundation is the industry group for organic agriculture in the European Union. The came to us seeking a better way to connect consumers to growers. The application we developed with them provides a rich-media platform for organic growers to tell their stories. The site features an advanced multi-lingual content management engine. Embedded videos help bring the grower stories to life.
	International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology In this project with the Stanford Medical School, we're provided both a public web presence for the organization and also a secure intranet. The CMS manages the membership database, proposals and award nomination and voting processes. We also have a conference registration system for their annual conference. Coming in mid-2009 is a directory of researchers and a publications database with the materials from the 2009 ISPNE conference.
	NanoScienceWorks "Providing Content and Community to Nanoscience researchers" We work with scientific publishers Taylor & Francis Group to create this portal. The site supports an active community of more than 2000 members who use the site to share their research and lean about new developments in nanotech. The site features a directory or researchers and institutions, database of publications and news aggregation service. The site allows Taylor and Francis publishing group to share exclusive content and to get valuable feedback from the community about which topics are important which helps inform their print publishing activities.
	Bay Area Integrated Regional Water Management Plan The Bay Area Integrated Regional Management Plan is a nine-county effort to coordinate and improve water supply reliability, protect water quality, manage flood protection, maintain public health standards, protect habitat and watershed resources, and enhance the overall health of the bay. We've developed this portal as a digital library and collaboration space for the IRWMP organization. The site catalogs more than 200 project listings and provides a secure intranet workspace for each. These tools were so effecitve that the IRWMP decided to provide secure workspaces to the Bay Area Clean Water Agencies project. We've also built a custom tool for generating e-mail updates of new site content. The open source software developed in this project is now being reused be several other IRWMP collaboratives in California.
	Malta Vision 2015 The Government has identified seven sectors for development which will enable the Maltese Islands to build on the existing competitive advantage and achieve even greater success. This site provides a public web presence to this project as well as a secure intranet for project management. The public-facing site provides an overview of the project as well as a survey tool for members of the Maltese public to help guide the priorities and actions of the project. The intranet site provides a secure workspace for the project team to collaborate and share materials.
	Great Communities Transit Collaborative The Great Communities Collaborative brings together residents and local organizations to participate in community planning processes across the San Francisco Bay Area. Our goal is to create a region of vibrant neighborhoods with affordable housing, shops, jobs, and services within convenient walking distance near transit. This site serves as a secure collaboration space as well as public web presence for the group. The project team uses this site to securely share documents and produce monthly reports. Content from the site is exported into a Word-importable format for producing monthly reports. The site features an interactive OpenLayers-based mapping tool for exploring current and proposed transit stations in the SF Bay Area.
	Contra Costa Watershed Forum The Forum is an open committee of some fifty organizations, including state and local agencies, local non-profit environmental and education organizations, community volunteer groups, and private citizens. This site provides CCWF with both a public-facing web presence as well as secure intranet workspaces for their various committees. The group uses this site to organize and promote their many activities in the watershed including volunteer creek monitoring, annual creek cleanup day. The site also features spaces for job announcements and a group calendaring solution.
	Durham Public Schools DPS is a public school district serving 32,000 students in Durham, North Carolina. The district's in-house IT had used Plone to develop a powerful web presence serving teachers, students, and parents. They called us in as 'special forces' to solve some issues that they found challenging including security updates, custom templating, and Plone buildout troubleshooting. This project is an example of our "Plone Special Forces" model where we support teams with existing Plone developers with specialist problem-solving.
	California Water Policy Conference Every year, this conference brings a diverse group of people together representing all facets of water policy in CA. This site provides a means to manage the conference agenda and workshop descriptions, a live registration tool, and a secure intranet for distributing materials to the conference team and attendees.
	Vantage Partners Vantage Partners is a boutique executive search firm, which ranks among the leaders in retained search for high-growth technology companies. They retained Zentraal to provide them with a more robust hosting platform. We also provide them with ongoing design and technical support. The Zentraal team migrated their custom Rails-based CMS to a new ubuntu linux VPS server. This move provided them with more computing resources at a lower cost of ownership. Now the team at Vantage can be confident that their web team works with as much integrity as they do.
	Cosumnes, American, Bear, and Yuba Rivers — Integrated Regional Water Management Plan (IRWMP) An IRWMP is a comprehensive planning document prepared on a region-wide scale that identifies priority water resources projects and programs with multiple benefits. This site was built to support the CABY group through the information-intensive process of developing their IRWMP.
	Pollinator Conservation Digital Library The Pollinator Conservation Digital Library is a knowledge base and online community for pollinator researchers. Through this interactive site you can browse and search databases of resources and projects, find other people and organizations, as well as find news and events about pollinator related topics. [in progress]
	Wind Harvest We've provided Wind Harvest with a comprehensive set of design solutions, including website, trade-show booth displays, brochures and other print collateral. In addition to Wind Harvest's public site, we've also built a secure investor extranet for distributing financial information and a technical extranet for storing CAD engineering resources.
	Far Western This anthropological research firm wanted to modernize their website and make it easier for their staff to post materials and make changes. We used Plone to deliver a flexible, cost-effective solution. Far Western staff across 4 project offices use this intranet site to securely collaborate and share documents with their clients.
	Wolf and Associates An environmental consulting firm that I worked at from 2001-2008, serving as managing partner from 2005-2008. The site provided a secure intranet for sharing project documents with out client. It also provided a publishing platform for us to promte our company and share creative-commons license documents.

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