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 / Sales
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)

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
Developer, Director of Training
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 since 2006.
Jen has been actively working with Drupal since 4.7. She maintains several modules on drupal.org, and is a very active member in the Drupal community. She's a regular face at the Berkeley users group, an occasional attendee at the San Francisco users group, and drops in on other Drupal Camps around the country. Jen is a coordinator for the BADcamp events, and was also on the organizing committee for DrupalCon San Francisco in 2010.

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!

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.

Tyler Burke
Drupal Developer

Rob Bertholf
Chief Search Architect
In the crowded marketplace of SEO experts, Rob is literally a cut above the rest. With a top 10 Google ranking in "Search Engine Optimization Expert" and a ranking before Airforce.com with a search of "United States Air Force Veteran" former Staff Sergeant Bertholf demonstrates how his effective techniques provide results in even the most saturated environments. Prior to joining Chapter Three as Chief Search Architect Rob was already a seasoned digital pioneer, @Rob sent the first "tweet" from Hawaii and oversaw the creation of over 700 websites as inventor of ZeppOS Content Management Application. As part of his responsibilities at Chapter Three, Rob continues to find innovative ways to leverage the marketing power of the web for his clients. He also shares his SEO and web marketing insights as a regular keynote speaker/lecturer for corporate and academic audiences.
Learn about Rob's techniques in Search Engine and Social Media marketing and optimization website.

Elly Jonez
Drupal Developer

Kathryn Wiles
Office Manager, Quality Assurance

Tara Coomans
Social Media Director
Tara, Director of Social Media, is a sales and marketing veteran with over 15 years experience. She is a serial entrepreneur specializing in interactive marketing techniques such as social media and event marketing. Her previous businesses include an event marketing company and Event Solutions magazine. Tara's goal is to help clients engage their audience through innovative and cost-effective marketing techniques. Tara is a blog advocated and Twitter fanatic. She maintains several personal blogs including www.whatwechow.com which satisfies her foodie passion and www.akamai-marketing.com.where she speaks about current interactive marketing trends. She lives in Honolulu Hawaii with her husband and Jack Russell terrier, Rudy.

Vilas Dhar
Outside General Counsel
Vilas Dhar serves as the principal legal advisor to Chapter Three, LLC and provides strategic counsel to the company's senior management team. Mr. Dhar serves as the company's primary point of contact for all legal issues. In his spare time, Mr. Dhar is involved in a variety of charitable causes focusing on international development and human rights.
Mr. Dhar is a co-founder and partner at DHAR LAW, LLP. Mr. Dhar represents clients in a wide variety of corporate transactions, including representing buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions involving both public and private companies, as well as investors and issuers in early stage investments. In addition, Mr. Dhar has advised publicly-traded companies on corporate governance, public disclosure and other securities law matters. Mr. Dhar is very active in the technology entrepreneurship community, advising startups on matters related to formation, seed financing, and intellectual property protection. Mr. Dhar also chairs DHAR LAW, LLP's Pro Bono Committee and directs the Firm's engagement with international global health NGO's, community entrepreneurs, and the local arts community. Learn more about DHAR LAW, LLP at http://www.dharlawllp.com.
Mr. Dhar has lectured and published articles on the field of microfinance, with a focus on increasing efficiency in microfinance institutions, developing country policies related to banking and microfinance infrastructure, and has been consulted by large financial institutions on developing platforms for commercializing socially conscious lending.
Mr. Dhar holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was a member of the Order of Barristers. Mr. Dhar also holds dual Bachelor’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois. Mr. Dhar is an active member of the American Bar Association, Boston Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the NYU Alumni Association.

Travis Pazin
QA + User Experience Specialist
After stints with Apple Retail and a music software startup, Travis brings his passion for logic and simplicity to Chapter Three's usability efforts. He's a Bay Area native and reps the Oakland Raiders accordingly.

Will Thorne
Office Manager

Stephanie Canon
Project Manager Extraordinaire

Jacob Redding
Drupal Trainer
Jacob Redding has been a trainer for over 10 years, starting as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He has given workshops across the globe in China, Jordan, New York and San Francisco (including leading Chapter Three's Beginning Drupal for Site Builders and Drupal Module Development courses). His teaching skills have helped over 1,000 people learn technological skills ranging from Microsoft Server technologies to Unix/Linux servers, Apache fundamentals, TCP/IP routing, and over the past two years classes on Beginning Drupal up to Advanced Drupal development and scalability. As a Drupal community member, Jacob has been working in Drupal for over three years and has developed modules freely available on drupal.org. His book Beginning Drupal 7 is released on April 19th (buy).
