Robert Douglass
Work experience
2012 - | Commerce Guys: Director of Products | Responsible for the marketing and strategy for products like Commerce Kickstart. |
2008 - 2012 | Acquia: Consultant, Presales | As one of the first people hired onto the Acquia team, I've had the pleasure of watching this great company grow and mature. My roles have varied over the years, with emphasis on consultancy and presales engineering. |
2010 - Present | Open Goldberg Project: Founder, Director | The Open Goldberg Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to the creation of freely licensed artistic projects. Our first successful project was the Open Goldberg Variations. |
2010 - 2012 | Commerce Guys: Advisory Board | Advisory Board member with focus on Drupal and technical issues. |
2010 - 2011 | ICanLocalize: Advisor | Focus on Drupal and product strategy. |
2006 - 2012 | Drupal Association: General Assembly | My greatest achievement in this time was leading the effort to finalize the Purpose and Mission Statement, and in the process coming up with the slogan "Come for the code, stay for the community" (together with Angie Byron). |
2008 - 2010 | Drupal Initiative e.V.: Co-founder, Stellvertretender Vorstand (Vice President) | Helped found and run the Drupal Initiative e.V. in its first two years of existence. The DI is an "Initiative zur Förderung der Drupal-Community e.V. als gemeinützig anerkannt". Includes helping organize and run DrupalCamp Cologne in 2008. |
2006 - 2008 | Lullabot: Consultant | I was one of the 'bots. |
2001 - 2006 | Independent contractor | Drupal and Java projects. |
2001 | Hype Innovation: Java programmer | My beginning as a web developer. |
Books
2013 |
Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook (Packt, June 2013) | I wrote the Foreward. |
2013 |
Getting Started with Drupal Commerce (Packt, September 2013) | I wrote the Foreward. |
2011 |
The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7: Co-author | I wrote the awesome chapter on the menu system. |
2011 | Pro Drupal 7 Development | Technical editor |
2008 | Pro Drupal Development, 2nd edition (Drupal 6) | Technical editor |
2007 | Pro Drupal Development | Technical editor |
2005 | Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress | I wrote the first 230 pages covering Drupal. |
Drupal Contributions
2004 - Present |
Drupal.org | Currently 997 commits to contrib modules on Drupal.org, including the following: |
Apache Solr | Original author and evangelist for the module. Development began in 2007. | |
Memcache | Original author and evangelist. Development began in 2006. | |
2007 | GoPHP5.org | Co-founded GoPHP5.org, an effort to accelerate the adoption of PHP5 amongst open source projects and web hosting companies. |
2005 - 2008 | Google Summer of Code | Initiated and ran Drupal's involvement in GSoC for the first two years. Was a mentor for 4 years. |
October, 2003 | Drupal.org | I joined Drupal.org after building the first version of RobsHouse.net. User ID is 5449. |