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Richard
Freedman
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Reason for account:
Speaker for the Processing Workshop on Saturday.
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Chad
Furman
Full Stack Developer
Clevertech
Reason for account:
Presenting on Rapid App Development in Ionic, Sails, and Mongo
Programming, web dev, security -- computery stuff
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Tess
Gadwa
Founder
Yes Exactly, Inc.
Reason for account:
I am co-presenting a talk at the NERD Summit.
Tess Gadwa brings more than 16 years experience in design, communications, and marketing to her practice. Her focus is interaction design, user experience, and entrepreneurial coaching. She authored and filed the patent for Attention Based Currency, a form of cryptocurrency powered by music. In January 2011, she launched Yes Exactly Web Design, specializing in rapid deployment of high-quality custom-designed content-managed websites for small businesses, creative professionals, and nonprofits. The company incorporated in December 2012 and continues to serve customers in the Pioneer Valley and across the United States.
Tess graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in English literature.
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Ally
Gonthier
Jessica
Grant
Reason for account:
I've been asked to teach a workshop at nerd 2015.
Karl
Hakkarainen
IT consultant
Queen Lake Consulting
Reason for account:
Information architecture, mobile platforms, lifelong learning
Thirty-five years in the IT business working for the largest and smallest companies. My grandchildren still ask me for help with their home networks and gadget choices.
Cheryl
Handsaker
Technical Project Manager
Charlemont Web Works, OriginEight, CommunicateHealth
Reason for account:
Presenting Reporting an issue: What developers really want to know
Cheryl is a technical project manager and Drupal developer living and working in the beautiful Recreation Capital of New England.
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Steve
Hanson
Principal Consultant
Cruiskeen Consulting LLC
Reason for account:
Presentation on Panopoly
Steve is the principal consultant at Cruiskeen Consulting LLC. He has worked in various parts of the IT industry as a consultant and systems admin, including FERMILAB, Honeywell, the University of Wisconsin, and Collective Technologies. His current company does high performance hosting for CMS systems and web consulting and design for Drupal sites.
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Nate
Haug
Co-Founder
Backdrop CMS
Beryl
Hoffman
Elms College
Reason for account:
Programming, education.
Associate professor of CIT at Elms College and Holyoke Codes instructor.
Alexander
Hripak
Director of Engineering
Credly
I'm the Director of Engineering at Credly. I've been writing code for about six years now and have worked for a few different web shops in the Western Mass area.
In my free time I enjoy learning new technologies (which sometimes results in publishing an iOS app). But when I'm not writing code I'm usually working on my house, at the gym, or playing video games.
Peter
Johanson
Manager, Product Development
Medsphere Systems Corporation
Reason for account:
ReSTful APIs, hypermedia, JS SPAs, Domain Driven Design, CQRS.
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Marvin
Jones
Mathematics Instructor
Greenville Technical College
Reason for account:
Created account to be added as a presenter.
Aleda
Jonquil