TWIKI.NET Independent Consultants
TWIKI.NET strives to bring turnkey solutions to our clients and a key component of this is to provide clients with experienced and trusted TWiki consultants under the banner of our TWIKI.NET Independent Consultants Program. Consultants enrolled under this program are known to us and have years of direct and peer reviewed experience. We trust these consultants to provide services in a professional and effective way for your organization. If you have any specific questions about these resources, feel free to call us on +1-650-641-8060 or email feedback@twiki.net.
Key
- TWiki Installation/implementation
- TWiki Training
- TWiki Customization
- Content creation
- Application programming on the TWiki Markup Language level
- TWiki Plugin development
Adam Hyde is a specialist in creating publishing and authoring environments with TWiki, and Print on Demand integration. Adam is the founder of FLOSS Manuals (
http://www.flossmanuals.net) which has developed several plugins and methodologies for using TWiki as a collaborative authoring platform.
Previous to this Adam has worked as an IT consultant for large scale cultural organisations including Tate Modern (London), Science Museum (London), De Balie (Amsterdam), Walker Art Museum (Minneapolis).
Antonio Terceiro is a consultant experienced in using TWiki as a tool to foster collaboration in public and private organizations. He is a TWiki core contributor, as well as plugin author.
Terceiro works at Colivre with a team of experienced consultants that can help your organization on getting the most out of a enterprise-ready collaboration environment like TWiki. Colivre's team can provide solutions for managing information on public websites, enabling organizational processes and information structuring on intranets, getting collaborative work ready for professional printing in paper, and others.
Bruce Prochnau runs BKDesign, a Canadian based website design and development business.
Clif Kussmaul installs, configures, and customizes TWiki and other wiki platforms. He helps clients develop requirements, and recommends designs and deployment strategies. He teaches technical and non-technical people to use wikis; training ranges from 1 to 6 hours, as needed. He also develops or adapts plugins and themes to match customer needs. Clif is CTO of Elegance Technologies, which develops software products and provides software development consulting services. Clif is also Associate Professor of Computer Science at Muhlenberg College.
Fred Morris has been in business as Fred Morris Consulting in Seattle, Washington since 1984. Besides writing gateways and middleware he enjoys helping companies find creative ways to address their document, content and collaboration management challenges. At the moment he runs an all-Linux shop.
Jim Gettman championed TWiki at the Capital Group Companies starting in 2002, and led its successful implementation in their Investement Systems Group, for Production Support Services. This knowledge base supports symptoms and solutions to real-time problems on more than 17 trading and settlement systems. It also serves up all department procedures, tracks software development, and is a key component in Disaster Recovery plans. Jim has also implemented MediaWiki software for the same purposes at Point.360. He compares these wikis at
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/JimGettman. In 1990, Jim wrote his own knowledge base application for Lucas Aerospace, helping them transition through the personnel changes brought by corporate restructuring and relocation. He started his web development company in 1994, and is an expert at website, IT infrastructure, database, software and user interface design.
Martin Raabe has worked with TWiki for 10 years and is based near Mainz, Germany. Proficient in Windows, Linux and Unix environments he specialises in helping small and medium sized organizations to collaborate and communicate using TWiki and other tools.
Martin emphasises the need for training and TWiki customisation to ensure rapid take up of the solution by users. Martin says “a customised TWiki and trained users leads to business benefits delivered so much sooner. These two elements contribute highly to a successful TWiki implementation.”
Paul Reiber has been designing and developing software for UNIX and Linux for approximately 25 years. Paul has significant experience extending and customizing TWiki-based wikis, both in closed/intranet and open/internet contexts. His data modeling experience, writing skills, and analytical capabilities have served him well in deploying TWiki both as a corporate knowledgebase tool and as a social fabric for regional information sharing. Paul has installed and customized dozens of wikis and other CMS-style websites, and he favors TWiki for its flexibility and extensibility. As an early adopter of TWiki, he made his mark on the technology, helping with debugging as well as with with the design and implementation of a number of powerful features. Paul's programming experience, with approximately 40 languages over the years, gives him a unique ability to quickly come up to speed in any environment. Many of Paul's clients have also leveraged his educational and interpersonal skills, both to help with the integration of wikis into existing business processes, and to assist with training organizations in how to best take advantage of TWiki.
Richard Donkin is an active contributor in the TWiki community and is based in the UK.
Steve Mokris has been working with TWiki since 1999. His company, Kosada, uses TWiki internally for all of its information tracking and project-tracking, and has successfully deployed custom TWiki applications for numerous clients universities, businesses, other organizations, as well as individuals.
