Drupal
- Roles in working with Drupal
- Site Builder, Developer, Themer, Designer, Project Manager
Personal information
- Full name
- Michael Holden
- Languages spoken
- English
- My website
- http://michaelholden.com
- Interests
- drupal, ubercart, civicrm, pressflow, pantheon, mercury, amazon, ec2, s3, cloud computing
- Gender
- male
- Country
- United States
- LinkedIn profile
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelholden
- Facebook page
- http://www.facebook.com/michael.holden
- Twitter url
- http://twitter.com/michael_holden
- Bio
I've been working with content management systems and online commerce for 15 years; I've been using Drupal as my main platform for the past two years. I'm rather partial to the Drupal/Ubercart/CiviCRM trinity because it lets me give a ton of amazing and valuable features to my clients for a lot less than they would have spent a couple years ago. But I've worked on most of the fully-featured open source platforms out there. My career has been all about implementing and developing advanced commerce, community and content management applications.
I'm also familiar with Joomla, MovableType, WordPress and Bricolage. I have experience with the Pantheon, Pressflow, Mercury Drupal variants and integrating them with CiviCRM, UberCart, Solr, and Varnish. I also use LAMP, perl/mod_perl, Apache, AJAX, PHP, MySql, Postgres and other technologies. I really like the Amazon EC2 cloud and S3, as well as the RackSpace cloud.
Some of the work I do includes CMS selection and feature specification, installation and customization of base modules, E-commerce software implementation and integration, cross-browser compatible front-end template development, web application proof-of-concept and prototype development, social network integration and optimization and custom web application and web services development. Back in the day I worked for some big companies and mega-brands but now I just work from home on projects I find to be either For A Good Cause, or interesting, or both.
Other than that, I'm 43, have two teenagers and live in Seattle. I live with a small chihuahua and enjoy HDR and panoramic photography, DJing mashups and Burning Man.
Work
- Job title
- Principal
- Industries worked in
- Web publishing, electronic commerce, web retailing, internet technology development, content management, academic computing
- Companies worked for
- Starwave, Amazon, Vulcan NW, Rosetta Stone, AOL, DanceSafe, Survey Planet, NMSA
- Current company or organization
- Super Pod LLC
History
- Member for
- 2 years 25 weeks