About Chapter Three

Matt Cheney
Managing Partner / Drupal Strategist
Matt works directly with our clients to understand their needs, create solutions, and execute the delivery of the highest-quality results based on both technical and business metrics.
He had the good fortune to be trained as a librarian, but spends most of his time with computers instead of books. He's served as a political consultant for campaigns and causes, developed online information systems to help connect attorneys in the California Death Penalty defense community, and worked as a researcher at the National Center for SuperComputing Applications, developing communities for online learning.
Matt Cheney has a B.A. in Philosophy, History, Religious Studies, and Political Science and a M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Josh Koenig
Partner / CTO
Josh has been active with the Drupal community since 2003, and is a founder of the Drupal Dojo as well as CTO of Chapter Three. He specializes in infrastructure, architecture, scalability, and high-performance engineering.
Josh was a co-founder of the DeanSpace project on the Howard Dean presidential campaign, and he utilized that technology when he helped to start-up and run Music for America, a national non-profit promoting progressive politics and participation to the Millennial generation. After the 2004 election cycle and before starting Chapter Three he worked with several campaign organizations and nascent consultancies, eventually as the leader of a development team.
He also has a B.F.A. in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and has been blogging since 2001 at outlandishjosh.com. He is also published author.

Zack Rosen
Partner / Business Development
Zack co-founded and directed the CivicSpace project, a critical organization driving early-adoption of Drupal. He remains an active business leader in the community and has freely contributed his expertise to hundreds of web projects.
It all started with the DeanSpace project in 2003, which he initiated during his summer break from the University of Illinois. Shortly thereafter he left school to take a job at Howard Dean presidential HQ in Burlington, Vermont, serving as a web-developer and technical volunteer coordinator on that historic campaign. He was responsible for servicing the web-technology needs of the state campaign offices, constituency groups, and grassroots web developers.
Today, in addition to his work with Chapter Three and Drupal, he is CEO of Mission Bicycle, a new startup which manufactures beautiful customized bikes in San Francisco.

Nica Lorber
Creative Director
Nica has over ten years of professional experience in design, web and multimedia. She works with clients from the ground up, creating branding, identity, graphics and interface design.
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She is also versed in web strategy, usability, information architecture, and web standards. She has worked extensively with non-profits and serves as Online Director for the Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship on the side.

Squiggy Rubio
Drupal Themer
Squiggy is Chapter Three's leader in XHTML/CSS elegance and PHPTemplate architecture. Her expertise assures structural integrity and cross-browser compatibility for the websites we create.
Squiggy joined Chapter Three in May 2008, bringing with her several years experience designing websites for faculty, non-profits and local organizations at Humboldt State University, where she earned a degree in Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies. While initially an artist and musician, she became more involved in campus and local community organizing, keeping people informed about struggles in Chiapas and the US-Mexico Borderlands. She is passionate about facilitating the use of open source software for grassroots organizing and using Drupal to support and enhance community research projects and situated learning communities.
(And yes, her name really is Squiggy, for which she can thank the creators of Laverne and Shirley)

Robert Wohleb
Drupal Engineer
Robert brings an A-level engineering perspective to the table. In addition to maintaining several Drupal modules, he's built medical imaging applications, glucose testing devices, and a Linux-based media player that fits inside an 8-bit NES.
Robert joined Chapter Three in March 2008. Beyond his professional work, he is active in the open-source community, explores the applications of technology in the arts, and continues to experiment with the mysteries culinary sorcery.

Jon Skulski
Drupal Architect
Jon Skulski is armed with a fierce, home-grown, do-it-yourself ethic which he picked up hacking on open source projects over the past decade. He's constantly refactoring, finding the edge of what's happening online, and taking the next step beyond.
An experienced Drupal engineer with several years of experience, he is also interested in exploring the interspaces between the Arts and the Sciences, the interfaces between the Humans and the Machines, and in the inner-places of the old growth Redwood forests.

Farsheed Hamidi-Toosi
Drupal Developer
Farsheed first joined Chapter Three in January 2007 and has been an invaluable team member on a number of projects. He brings an artist's eye and a big bag of ninja-tastic Drupal skills to the table. He also holds a B.S.E.E. from UIUC and can circuit bend the occasional Speak 'n' Spell if need be.
Farsheed started with Drupal in 2005, researching how Drupal could be helpful to artists & musicians. You can still find him waxing philosophical on the Art & Music Drupal group. When he isn't tip-typing on the computer, he's probably in the studio recording a track or working out a beat on the drumkit. Check out his website and music for more.

Jennifer Lampton
Drupal Developer
Jennifer Lea Lampton founded her own web-development company in 1997, right after graduating from High School. She has been actively building sites with Drupal and participating in the open-source community for over three years.
Jen is a very active member in the Drupal community. She's a regular face at the Berkeley users group meetings and helps organize the smashingly successful Bay Area Drupal Camp.

Neil Drumm
Drupal Genius
Neil Drumm provides Drupal expertise to Chapter 3. He promotes good development practices, contributions to the community, and ensures a higher level of Drupal excellence inside Chapter Three.
Neil is the Drupal 5 maintainer, a permanent member of the Drupal Association, and maintains the API reference. With Zack, he co-founded CivicSpace Labs, which distributed a version of Drupal for campaigns and non-profits. He studied computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
In addition to his Chapter Three work, Neil is an independent Drupal consultant who works on MAPlight.org

Dan Finnerty
Financials
Daniel helps with all things finance-related at Chapter Three. He takes care of the books and provides a valuable perspective on best practices for money and fiscal management. While he isn't keeping track of accounting records, he's busy pressing up vinyl ones under the moniker Spinnerty. Left brain - Right brain in full effect!

Paul Suway
Marketing Manager, Events, Support
Paul joined Chapter Three as Marketing, Events and Support Manager in 2009; he helps manage new marketing outreach including company event planning as well as day-to-day office operations. Paul is also the contact person for Chapter Three's Drupal Training. He comes from the University of San Francisco School of Business and Professional Studies and Wake Forest University.
In his spare time, Paul likes to cook foods from every culture and blog about it. If you like food, you should check it out at http://whaticook.tumblr.com.

Floor Van Herreweghe
Lead Designer
Floor is a recent transplant from South Africa, via New York. Before joining Chapter Three, she ran a graphic design business, creating design experiences and brands for clients in Asia, Africa, North America and Europe. She is a classically trained violinist and, when she's not obsessing about design, spends her time composing music, DJ-ing and tweaking samples.

Ray Thompson
Quality Assurance
Ray brings a keen eye for details and a background as a web/Linux generalist to the problem of QA. In addition to performing manual smoketests and building Selenium simulations, he stitches together python, perl, php, ruby and even a little Java to help maintain Chapter Three's continuous integration system.

Greg Coit
Systems Administrator
Greg Coit has been administering Linux and Unix systems since 1997, is the current president of the Humboldt Linux Users Group and has a certain "je ne sais quoi" for Tech Support that spans more than 13 years. Greg has a passion for trains that has lead him to get an engineer certification and training in coal chucking on a rare 1884 steam locomotive.
