UMD Drupal User Group

 

Hello All,

 

Please note that we will not have the July 5th (Today) and August 2nd Drupal Users Group meetings to allow for any planned summertime vacations and to give opportunity to attend DrupalGov 2017 which is taking place on July 31st - August 2nd at The National Institutes of Health Campus. Details here: https://www.drupalgovcon.org

 

I would also like to follow up on our last meeting on Drupal 8 training with Fig Leaf. If we can secure a minimum of 6 people for a particular section (ex. 6 people interested in Drupal 8 Module Development - Advanced) then we can organize for an on-campus bootcamp for that section.

 

Please visit their Drupal 8 course outline http://training.figleaf.com/Courses/drupal8.cfm which roughly breaks it out into three (2 day) sections based on interest and skill level

 

Kindly let us know if you are interested in the Drupal 8 boot camp and more importantly when to schedule for it? My contacts are email: mkamuiru@umd.edu or by phone (301) 405 6164.

 

FigLeaf also has options for individual training programs in their Washington D.C. location. 

 

Thank you very much,

Michael Kamuiru

 

 

 

 

Hello All,

 

Please note that we will not have the July 5th and August 2nd Drupal Users Group meetings to allow for any planned summertime vacations and to give opportunity to attend DrupalGov 2017 which is taking place on July 31st - August 2nd at The National Institutes of Health Campus. Details here: https://www.drupalgovcon.org

 

I would also like to follow up on our last meeting on Drupal 8 training with Fig Leaf. If we can secure a minimum of 6 people for a particular section (ex. 6 people interested in Drupal 8 Module Development - Advanced) then we can organize for an on-campus bootcamp for that section.

 

Please visit their Drupal 8 course outline http://training.figleaf.com/Courses/drupal8.cfm which roughly breaks it out into three (2 day) sections based on interest and skill level

 

Kindly let us know if you are interested in the Drupal 8 boot camp and more importantly when to schedule for it? My contacts are email: mkamuiru@umd.edu or by phone (301) 405 6164.

 

FigLeaf also has options for individual training programs in their Washington D.C. location. 

 

Thank you very much,

Michael Kamuiru

 

 

 

Good Morning All,

 

Kindly join us tomorrow Wednesday, June 7th, 2017 at 12 noon in 2115 Tawes Hall for a much anticipated introduction to Drupal 8 training session with David Gallerizzo (Proud Terp!) - CEO of Fig Leaf Software. 

 

 

Please use this link to RSVP for the event.

 

We are excited about this upcoming discussion and look forward to seeing you!

Michael Kamuiru

 

 

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David (Dave) Gallerizzo is the CEO of Fig Leaf Software, a leading digital agency with an international customer base. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors. The firm operates worldwide through its major business units including Consulting Services (user experience, application development on mobile and desktop platforms, strategic analysis, and marketing), Technical Training, and Product Resale. The company maintains strategic partnerships with Google, Adobe, Amazon, SalesForce, Sencha, Acquia, EpiServer, Hubspot, Telerik, and Paperthin.

 

His prior responsibility was as Vice President of Fig Leaf Software’s Consulting Services division. This division was responsible for all aspects of the company’s services based practices. During his tenure as head of Consulting Services, prior to his assumption of the position of CEO, the division saw yearly substantial growth over a seven year period.

 

Dave maintains enterprise certifications on the Drupal, Adobe Coldfusion, Amazon AWS, Google Apps, Google Maps, and Google Search Appliance platforms and continues to teach a variety of technical classes on a regular basis, including: Acquia Site Building with Drupal, Acquia Drupal Layout and Theming, PHP for Drupal Developers, Acquia Drupal Module Development, Advanced ColdFusion Development, Administering ColdFusion Servers, Google Apps Deployment, Google Search Appliance Deployment, jQuery, and Developing for the CommonSpot CMS platform.

 

His academic credentials include a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, with minors in Economics and Mathematics. Dave retired with 24 years of service from the United States Marines Corps, reserve component, in 2011. During his tenure of service he held enlisted and officer ranks, in both the Light Armored Reconnaissance and Combat Engineer fields, and obtained a final rank of Chief Warrant Officer 2.

 

 

Hello All,

 

I hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend. Kindly join us on Wednesday, June 7th, 2017 at 12 noon in 2115 Tawes Hall for a much anticipated introduction to Drupal 8 training session with David Gallerizzo (Proud Terp!) - CEO of Fig Leaf Software. 

 

 

Please use this link to RSVP for the event.

 

We are excited about this upcoming discussion and look forward to seeing you!

Michael Kamuiru

 

 

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David (Dave) Gallerizzo is the CEO of Fig Leaf Software, a leading digital agency with an international customer base. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors. The firm operates worldwide through its major business units including Consulting Services (user experience, application development on mobile and desktop platforms, strategic analysis, and marketing), Technical Training, and Product Resale. The company maintains strategic partnerships with Google, Adobe, Amazon, SalesForce, Sencha, Acquia, EpiServer, Hubspot, Telerik, and Paperthin.

 

His prior responsibility was as Vice President of Fig Leaf Software’s Consulting Services division. This division was responsible for all aspects of the company’s services based practices. During his tenure as head of Consulting Services, prior to his assumption of the position of CEO, the division saw yearly substantial growth over a seven year period.

 

Dave maintains enterprise certifications on the Drupal, Adobe Coldfusion, Amazon AWS, Google Apps, Google Maps, and Google Search Appliance platforms and continues to teach a variety of technical classes on a regular basis, including: Acquia Site Building with Drupal, Acquia Drupal Layout and Theming, PHP for Drupal Developers, Acquia Drupal Module Development, Advanced ColdFusion Development, Administering ColdFusion Servers, Google Apps Deployment, Google Search Appliance Deployment, jQuery, and Developing for the CommonSpot CMS platform.

 

His academic credentials include a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, with minors in Economics and Mathematics. Dave retired with 24 years of service from the United States Marines Corps, reserve component, in 2011. During his tenure of service he held enlisted and officer ranks, in both the Light Armored Reconnaissance and Combat Engineer fields, and obtained a final rank of Chief Warrant Officer 2.

 

 

 

Hello All,

 

I hope you had a great week at the DrupalCon 2017! Kindly join us on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017 at 12 noon in 2115 Tawes Hall for a group working session to assist our colleagues from the health center on their website redesign project. We have 50mins and we hope to assist them in the discovery phase to identify their key users and website priorities. I will kindly ask for you to look at the current UMD Health Center website http://health.umd.edu to gather some of your thoughts and suggestions before the meeting in relation to the following items:

 

 

 

The team from Health Center will come ready with writing materials and we plan to have an open working exercise over lunch (please RSVP here). If you have gone through this process in a past or current project your insight will prove to be invaluable and we look forward to your thoughts.

 

We will follow up with a 10min presentation of the Careers website https://careers.umd.edu and we plan to fold the Q/A session into the group working session.

 

Lastly, for the June 7th, 2017 meeting we are excited to announce that David Gallerrizzo (Proud Terp!) from Fig Leaf Training will be with us to discuss Drupal 8. Please let us know what you would like to learn about Drupal 8 so that we can tailor the conversation to your specific needs and if you are open to extending the conversation to cover more material. I welcome any of your thoughts for the June meeting by email mkamuiru@umd.edu or by phone (301) 405 6164

 

Thank you!

Michael Kamuiru

 

 

 

Hello All,

 

Kindly join us on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017 at 12 noon in 2115 Tawes Hall for a group working session to assist our colleagues from the health center on their website redesign project. We have 50mins and we hope to assist them in the discovery phase to identify their key users and website priorities. I will kindly ask for you to look at the current UMD Health Center website http://health.umd.edu to gather some of your thoughts and suggestions before the meeting in relation to the following items:

 

 

The team from Health Center will come ready with writing materials and we plan to have an open working exercise over lunch (please RSVP here). If you have gone through this process in a past or current project your insight will prove to be invaluable and we look forward to your thoughts.

 

We will follow up with a 10min presentation of the Careers website https://careers.umd.edu and we plan to fold the Q/A session into the group working session.

 

Lastly, for the June 7th, 2017 meeting we are excited to announce that David Gallerrizzo (Proud Terp!) from Fig Leaf Training will be with us to discuss Drupal 8. Please let us know what you would like to learn about Drupal 8 so that we can tailor the conversation to your specific needs and if you are open to extending the conversation to cover more material. I welcome any of your thoughts for the June meeting by email mkamuiru@umd.edu or by phone (301) 405 6164

 

Thank you!

Michael Kamuiru

 

 

 

Hello All,

 

Kindly join us on Wednesday, April 5th, 2017 at 12 noon in 2115 Tawes Hall for a discussion with Jason Winings.

 

Jason is with the Division of Administration & Finance (VPAF) - Procurement and Supply. The meeting will be an informal conversation to discuss the procurement process for web projects. We hope that this meeting is helpful in the process of securing outside vendors for your current and future web projects.

 

We will have a 15 minute presentation on the UMD Career Center website followed by a 15 minute Question and Answer (QA) session. Please use this link to RSVP for the event.

 

Finally, kindly take a few minutes to respond to Skip Warnick (contacts below) on a community survey on which tools members of the Drupal Users Group/Community use for local Drupal development (localhost) ex. http://www.kalabox.io or similar. Thank you very much in advance for your input.

 

 

Look forward to seeing you!

Michael Kamuiru

 

 

Hello All,

 

Kindly join us on Wednesday, April 5th, 2017 at 12 noon in 2115 Tawes Hall for a discussion with Jason Winings.

 

Jason is with the Division of Administration & Finance (VPAF) - Procurement and Supply. The meeting will be an informal conversation to discuss the procurement process for web projects. We hope that this meeting is helpful in the process of securing outside vendors for your current and future web projects.

 

In addition, we will have a 15 minute presentation on the UMD Career Center website followed by a 15 minute Question and Answer (QA) session.

 

Please use this link to RSVP for the event.

 

Look forward to seeing you!

Michael Kamuiru

 

 

Hello All,

 

Kindly join us on Wednesday, March 1st, 2017 at 12 noon in 2115 Tawes Hall for a discussion with Ramakrishnan Parameswaran.

 

Rama is the Manager for Department of Information Technology Service Strategy Operations & Business Support - Platform, Data & Application Administration (DIT-SSOBS). DIT SSOBS supports UMD campus wide web hosting.

 

The meeting will be an informal conversation to discuss the following planned items:

 

We hope that this meeting is timely in navigating web infrastructure choices within current budgetary constraints in fulfilling our mandates to our various units on campus. In addition, we will have a 15 minute Question and Answer (QA) session.

 

 

Look forward to seeing you!

Michael Kamuiru