Ana tried her best to become an artist or a writer or something exciting like that, but at some point had to accept her true talents as being a bit more linear. Php, MYSQL, etc, etc just seemed easier to learn at some point than, for example, how to paint a really good painting.

So she traded her paints over and over again in exchange for various computers and is enjoying expressing both her linear and her creative natures simultaneously through website development and cultural programming.

Ana has been building websites with drupal since drupal4.7 (2004). Her strategic sensibilities have been honed with a mostly non-profit clientele, and so her ability to help design with drupal in a way that is lightweight, user-friendly and maximally conservative of resources comes from a real sense of just wanting to make things work better.

Ana Willem is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (Industrial Design) where she specialized in sustainable systems design. She brings with her 10 years of experience with technology and information systems design and development, and 15 years of design experience.

Ana is an information technologist and project manager who specializes in creating websites, databases and integrated software flows for small businesses and non-profits. Among other organizations, Ana has worked with TechSoup Global, Bioneers, the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Southern Center for Human Rights, the United States Social Forum, the Metro Atlanta Taskforce for the Homeless, and Alternate ROOTS.

While the different projects she undertakes are diverse, there is an underlying thread that ties them together. They each involve, in their own way, an understanding and reading of systems, and a subsequent deconstruction, diagnostics, and reformulation to better serve their purpose.