Our Team

Team Lead

Alex Clark

Partner, Plone & Zenoss consultant - ACLARK.NET, LLC founding partner Alex Clark is an author, Plone Foundation member and Plone Infrastructure Team leader. He was also the lead organizer of Plone Conference 2008.

Alex Clark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Loyola University in Maryland, and is uniquely committed to the success of the Plone project. He provides leadership and direction in many areas including plone.org infrastructure, online support, teaching of best practices, and adoption of new technologies. He applies that same determination, consistency, and dedication to all of his client projects, and brings with him over 5 years of experience working on Plone and Plone-related projects. Prior to becoming a full time consultant, he worked as a system administrator and network engineer.

In addition to his work on Plone and Zenoss projects at ACLARK.NET, LLC, Alex is the Executive Director of ZPUGDC, Inc. (Zope/Python Users Group of DC, Incorporated), a non-profit organization that serves the educational needs of the DC/MD/VA Python community. He manages day-to-day events, promotional efforts, and organizes monthly meetings, sprints, and conferences. Whether in his capacity as lead Plone Consultant for ACLARK.NET, LLC, or as Executive Director of ZPUGDC, INC, Alex is both highly skilled and committed to the present and future success and development of open source software.

Management

Amy Clark

Partner, Business Coordinator - Amy Clark brings many years of professional sales, marketing, management, administrative and financial/legal experience to the ACLARK.NET, LLC team. She ensures that the engagement of our services is both smooth and uncomplicated and is key in the quality, accuracy and efficiency of our client's accounts.

Developers

Andy McKay

Django consultant - Andy McKay is a skilled web developer with good communication skills. He is also able to lead development of projects. While once an active contributor to Plone, he is now focused almost exclusively on Django.

Matt Bowen

Web consultant - Matt Bowen is an active contributor to the Plone community and an experienced, highly-technical Plone integrator. He has been programming since the age of thirteen, and is comfortable modifying existing products or writing new ones to ensure your site fits your vision. Additionally, Matt has worked extensively with nonprofits and has a particularly acute understanding of their unique needs and work style.

Reed O'Brien

BFG consultant - Reed O'Brien is interested in solving interesting problems with Zope 3 and Plone technologies. He enjoys engineering intelligent, extensible solutions. He is also very interested in the semantic web.

Steve Barber

System administrator - Steve Barber has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and has been a Computer Scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) since 1995. Through the design and maintenance of complex systems, he helps support the research of more than 500 scientists.

Tim Knapp

Plone consultant - Tim Knapp has been a Plone consultant and active member of the Plone community since 2006. He as worked on a variety of projects, and is comfortable with all aspects of Plone development including theming, feature additions, and test driven development.