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Current Members
Brian Shaughnessy
Brian Shaughnessy has over 12 years experience working with not-for-profit professional and trade associations in various communications roles. Before beginning his own web development business two years ago, he was employed by an association management company where he served as executive/communications director and technology advisor for several statewide trade associations. He continues to work with many not-for-profits (professional/trade/charitable), specializing in Joomla+CiviCRM implementations. Brian has a mathematics and management degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He currently has more than 10 sites using CiviCRM in various capacities.
Claire Sauve
Since completing graduate studies in pure mathematics in 2002, Claire has worked in many areas of education and community building. In May 2008, Claire joined the Physician Health Program of BC and has been working closely with the CiviCRM team on the new case management component, CiviCase, providing domain expertise in the field of physician health. As well as working with and learning about on-line communities of practice in physician health, Claire is currently studying body-centred psychotherapy and is very interested in exploring and building connections between helping professions and education.
Cynthia Tarascio
My interests and goals are to slowly make CiviCRM the database of choice for AFSC, to have one shared CiviCRM database per region, volunteer tracking and educating the AFSC Community about open source values and commitment to community. My constituencies:
- As the Project Manager for all things related to CiviCRM, I identify with the AFSC staff population and with the consultants that I bring in for help
- It is my responsibility to find the right database (CiviCRM of course J ) for our offices and to see to it that the implementation, training etc... are a success
- Of late, I have regular meetings with staff in our External Affairs department. We are trying to get on the same page with regard to database usage and constituency outreach
- I am merely the technical/support end. Once CiviCRM is in the hands of staff, they will use it to reach out to their constituents on all matters related to peace and social justice
Joe Murray
Joe Murray is President of JMA Consulting, specialists in e-Advocacy for progressive non-profits and political campaigns. JMA Consulting has implemented CiviCRM for a number of clients interested in CiviContribute, CiviEvent, and CiviMail functionality. We contributed significantly to the specification of CiviMember, implemented the Moneris payment plug-in, regularly make small customizations for clients, and are generally interested in supporting the use of Drupal and CiviCRM in online political and advocacy campaigns. Bilingual English / French sites are often needed in Canada. Joe has a Systems Design Engineering undergraduate degree, a doctorate in Political Philosophy, and extensive experience on non-profit boards, working as a political staffer, and leading and advising political campaigns in Canada.
Michael McAndrew
Michael has been working with CiviCRM since 2008. He is based in the UK and has organised a series of UK usergroup meetings to help grow the UK CiviCRM network. In June 2009 he organised (with lots of help from the CiviCRM core team) a developer training camp and user training day. He's worked with non profits of all shapes and sizes in the UK and further afield since 2002, providing project management, implementation, configuration, and customisation.
He takes care of the Book Understanding CiviCRM: a guide for nonprofits, files bugs, contributes the occasional patch, and helps improve the wiki/documentation.
He's currently working on an implementation of giftaid for CiviCRM. See http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/Gift+aid+requirements.
Michael runs Third Sector Design, an ICT consultancy for non-profits.
Peter Davis
I am based in New Zealand and have a background in political activism, communications and sustainability advocacy. My company - fuzion - applies it strategic, creative and advocacy skills to help businesses, organisations and communities be more effective in their communications, campaigns and projects. CiviCRM work to date has involved a significant and complex build for a political party as well as more standard implementations for a range of not-for-profits. My skills are in project management, understanding and implementing business owner's needs and interfacing between developers and users.
Roberto Santiago
Roberto A. Santiago is the principal of raSANTIAGO + Associates LLC (raSA) located in Portland, Oregon, USA. Before starting raSA in 2005 Roberto had a long career in software and technology consulting as well as advanced research in artificial intelligence and neuroscience. Roberto formed raSA to market web-based and open-source based business software solutions in alignment with his greater belief in using technology to advance the cause of social justice.
His consulting career has focused on software development, enterprise software architecture, data management and new technology adoption. His software consulting career began in 1989 after graduating high school. He gained valuable experience with developing, applying and managing advanced technology during engagements at the National Science Foundation, USAirways and Booz and Company (formerly Booz Allen & Hamilton).
Roberto has a bachelors of science from the University of Maryland where he studied Mathematics and Philosophy. He also has a masters of science from Portland State University where he researched and developed advanced theories of computational intelligence. Roberto has also done graduate research at Oregon Health and Science University where he focused on biological cybernetics.
Sarmeesha Reddy
Sarmeesha is the Director of DharmaTech, a nonprofit software firm based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Our mission is to strengthen nonprofits by implementing affordable and appropriate technology solutions. DharmaTech has been providing services since 2002. Projects include: Harvard University - Publius Project (publius.cc), Utah Avalanche Center (utahavalanchecenter.org), and Native Americans in Philanthropy (nativephilanthropy.org). Our interests include: Reporting, stabilizing core functionality and integrating advocacy tools w/CiviCRM
Wes Morgan
Wes works with the online organizing team at The Public Interest Network (Environment America, U.S. PIRG, and others). Being the lead tech guy, he is constantly on the lookout for ways to get more done in less time without cutting corners. Open source software is the best way he's found yet to make that happen. The Public Interest Network is composed of around 80 different organizations of all shapes and sizes, so it needs software that is easy for entry level staff to use, but powerful enough to handle enterprise-level security, scalability, and centralization needs. As of early 2009, The Public Interest Network is in the process of rolling out CiviCRM as the new foundation of its online organizing platform. For future CiviCRM development, Wes is focused on reporting, API integration with other tools, and multi-organization support.
Xavier Dutoit
An open source advocate for more than a decade, Xavier Dutoit is interested in using technology to achieve social change. In his latest venture, Tech To The People, he partnered with a political campaigner in Brussels to work with progressive groups (trade unions and NGOs) to maximise the results of their scarce resources.
TTTP's mission is to develop a range of accessible, open source IT tools to help activists network together, share ideas and magnify the impact of their advocacy. We want to get these tools into the right hands and ensure that they are used effectively.
NGOs are excellent at building relationships but remarkably poor at using tools to track and maintain these relationships. CiviCRM can help NGOs to efficiently manage their contacts. Our goal is to make it even more user friendly and better tailored to the needs of NGOs working in the EU political environment.
Participation Guidelines (draft)
- Member term is for 2 years. We will rotate out half of the current members in February 2010 in order create a succession sequence with continuity across years.
- Members are allowed 2 excused absences from monthly meetings per year.
- Members are expected to deliver on task commitments.
