Robin Bramley is an experienced Alfresco practitioner, having taken Version 0.6 to bits in 2005 and been using, extending, implementing, integrating, and scaling it ever since. He was the Technical Manager at the first UK Alfresco Gold partner where he built the original IMAP interface to Alfresco and is now the Chief Scientific Officer and Chief Architect at Ixxus, a global Alfresco Platinum partner.

Robin has architected many distributed systems over the past 15 years, ranging from Swaps Trading Platform to Insurance Contract Management and a global Alfresco-based DAM system. Robin has presented at various international conferences and meetups in London; he also writes for GroovyMag, including an article on CMIS integration with Alfresco that NASA wanted the source code for.

Karol Bryd has been working with ECM technologies since 2005, first with Documentum and then with Alfresco since 2008. He has worked on numerous ECM-related projects mainly in the Pharmaceuticals sector, performing all manner of roles from Developer to Technical Consultant to Development Manager.

He was a technical architect at Generis (http://www.generiscorp.com) for CARA, one of the first products to fully utilize Alfresco and CMIS technologies, and subsequently, supported its deployment at major corporations. He is also the author of the Alfresco extension Stamper (http://stamper.metasys.pl) for securing and watermarking PDF content in Alfresco.

Currently, he holds the position of Documentum Expert at F. Hoffmann-La Roche, where he is working on Documentum projects that help manage large amounts of business-critical electronic documentation.

Nicolas Raoul is an ECM consultant at Aegif in Tokyo. After obtaining a Master's degree from the French Ecole Nationale d'Ingenieurs, he worked in 13 countries, successfully designing distributed architectures for the French National Library or the Schengen Information System.

Back when CMIS was still in its draft stage, he created CmisSync, a CMIS synchronization client that allows Alfresco users to work faster even when they are offline. Enjoying a strong open source community, CmisSync helps organizations combine the user friendliness and mobility of cloud storage with the security and customizability of their CMIS server, be it on-premise or in private/public clouds.

As an ECM architect, he helped Alfresco design their certification program in 2009. He has been writing open source software since the age of 16. In his free time, he created AnkiDroid, a flashcards app with a million users, and other popular programs.

Barb Mosher Zinck is a freelance writer and VP, Editorial for CMSWire (SimplerMedia Group Inc). She has over 10 years of experience as an IT solutions architect, focused on designing and supporting web-based applications.