Aaron Zeckoski is a Senior Research Engineer in CARET (Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies) at Cambridge University. He has been involved in many aspects of system development over the past six years including analysis, design, implementation, QA, deployment, and support. His current responsibilities include project analysis, system design, and system implementation for web application development. Recent work involves Java, Spring, Hibernate, RSF (Reasonable Server Faces), PHP, and Sakai.
He was previously the Manager of Application Development and Lead Developer in the Learning Technologies unit at Virginia Tech for five years.
Ian Boston has extensive experience in the field of highly distributed web applications. He is CTO at CARET at the University of Cambridge and for two other organizations: CBCL Ltd, a Medical Informatics Company, delivering drugs information on a global scale, and Sybermedica Ltd, a Medical Diagnostics company, providing telemedicine solutions on an international scale.
Prior to joining CARET, he was CTO for an early leader in BPM and Activity Based Workflow with customers including Bank of Scotland, New Opportunities Fund, UK Sport, UK Sports Institute, British Olympic Association, Magma Inc., British Telecom, Sema, and PwC.
Ian has been an active investor in 20 or more start-up companies in the Cambridge area over the past 15 years and sits on a number of advisory boards.
He holds a 1st Class Honours degree in Engineering and a PhD in Parallel Computing and he worked on a number of "Grand Challenge" grid problems in the 1990s.
Margaret Wagner is a senior technical writer at the University of Michigan. She has been involved with the Sakai Project since its earliest predecessors, UM.CourseTools, UM.WorkTools, and CHEF, were developed, and she wrote the original help guides for these applications. Margaret is also the editor of the Sakai Newsletter, which is received by members of the Sakai Community around the world every two weeks.
Margaret attended Whitman College, University of Colorado, and the University of Michigan, where she studied linguistics and piano performance.
Tony Atkins is currently a Senior Support Engineer at Atlassian BV in Amsterdam. He currently provides support for administrators at companies, non-profit organizations, and open source projects around the world.
Prior to that, Tony worked for 10 years supporting digital libraries and education technologies in Higher Education. Tony became involved with the Sakai community while working at Virginia Tech, and worked for a number of years developing tools and documentation to help other Sakai administrators before moving on to work in the commercial open source world.