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Companies Worked For
Acquia, Examiner.com, Clarity Digital, Freestyle Systems, Teesside University, Institute of Digital Innovation, Openly Connected, Phumo, LongLake Studio
Industries Worked In: 
Software Development, Web Design, Drupal Training, Music Production

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On Drupal.org for 17 years 4 months

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Bio: 

Richard Burford passed away in 2016, and is remembered by friends, family, and colleagues: https://www.drupal.org/forum/general/community-spotlight/2016-03-03/rich...


Richard joined the Examiner.com Dev Team in June 2010 and helped to launch the biggest Drupal 7 site six months before Drupal 7 was released. He was the Lead Front End Developer on the Examiner.com mobile site - the highest traffic Drupal mobile site in the US and the 7th highest ranked mobile site in the US (August 2012).

Richard has many Drupal contributions, mostly in the form of contributed modules and his minimal base theme called Clean. Another of Richard's contributions to the Drupal project is the Drupal Contrib API site drupalcontrib.org which provides reference documentation for Drupal's most popular contributed projects.

Richard has a score of 7 on the Drupal certification site "Certified to Rock".

Richard is currently a Senior Software Engineer on the Site Factory team at Acquia.

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Areas of Expertise: 
development
theming
Drupal events: 
DrupalCon Paris 2009
DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010
DrupalCon Chicago 2011
DrupalCon London 2011
DrupalCon Denver 2012

Credited on 4 fixed issues

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3 people list psynaptic as a mentor

I contributed Drupal patches
I contributed Drupal modules
I contributed Drupal themes
I contributed Drupal installation profiles
I contributed to Drupal issue queues
I contributed Drupal documentation
I contributed Automated tests
I provide Drupal-related services
I give support on IRC
I help mentor new contributors