Michael Haggerty

Founding Partner

Michael Haggerty is a technology professional and open source advocate with an interest in the intersection of politics, technology and culture, the transitory nature of modern social interaction and the positivist potential for groups to gather and mobilize through online organization. He is responsible for the delivery of all client solutions, new product research and development, architecture of Trellon's network delivery infrastructure, acts as the lead on all strategic consulting projects and carries out a number of other tasks corresponding to the management and operations of the organization. Professionally, he brings a wealth of enterprise IT expertise gained through positions held with Lockheed Martin, the Federal Government, Washington Hospital Center, and various start-ups which have gone on to do great things or vanished completely. Michael possesses dual degrees in English and Philosophy from Washington College and has so far successfully resisted the urge to attend graduate school. He is active politically in various causes, a veteran of the 2004 Clark for President campaign, serves as the IT Director for the YearlyKos convention, scores a solid ENFP every time he takes a Myers-Briggs personality test and generally tries to be a decent human being. In his spare time, he enjoys reading the works of great thinkers, closely following the fate of the Boston Red Sox,
challenging the accepted standards of the community with his bonny young daughter and making things light up and go beep. He resides in Las Vegas and Washington DC.

Howard Park

District Manager

Attorney and ex-lobbyist Howard Park is an experienced political professional who has been involved in political campaigns since the 1970's. Park assists Trellon with sales, marketing, strategic planning and communication strategies for clients. Park was State Director for Wisconsin with Hart for President in 1984 and has held positions with the Presidential Campaigns of Sen. Bob Kerrey and Gen. Wesley Clark. In the 1990's he worked for Burson-Marsteller Public Relations where he specialized in grassroots organizing and talk radio before starting his own lobbying/PR business in 1995. Howard is deeply committed to progressive ideals and using new communications opportunities to help realize common dreams of a just society. He is a former Special Assistant to Rep. William Clay (D-MO). Howard Park blogs on MyDD and Daily Kos and edits a political networking newsletter for over 2,500 activists in Washington, DC. He is a native of St. Louis, MO and lives on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Alonza Robertson

Project Manager

Alonza Robertson is a creative communications professional with more than 18 years of project and account management experience in online solutions, public relations, marketing, public affairs and journalism. During his career, he has organized and helped develop communication projects, along with brand and Internet strategies, on behalf of many non-profit, corporate and small business clients including the American Cancer Society, the VH1 Save the Music Foundation, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, The Creative Coalition, Target, Best Buy, Nielsen Media Research, DuPont, Starbucks, Port of Oakland, Nike, Safeway and the City of Kansas City. A seasoned professional, Alonza is committed to maintaining Trellon's high level of client service and quality. An alum of Washington D.C.'s Howard University, Alonza currently works and resides in New York City.

Marc Ingram

Lead Developer

Marc Ingram studied political science and modern history at the University of Dundee in Dundee, Scotland before deciding to embark upon a career in the IT industry. This led him to study for a Masters in Computer Science at the University of Salford in Manchester, England.

Since then, Marc has gained 10 years of experience working for the British Rail, Marks and Spencer, a blue chip British company, and OurFernie, a small scale community-based organization where he was introduced to the world of opensource software.

He currently lives in Fernie, British Columbia, where he moved in 2005 with the intention to stay for only 6 months. Marc can often be found skiing the powder or hitting the bike trails around town.

Marc is also the maintainer for openresort and environment canada weather module. In addition he has contributed enhancements to the drupal services module.

Simon Lindsay

Lead Developer

Having found out about drupal from the original drop.org website around 2001/2002, Simon quickly converted his phpnuke/phpbb based dirtbike
website across to Drupal, and promptly started contributing back to the community by creating the keyword search engine, updates to the weblink
module, some experimental external mnogosearch integration and more.

In early 2005, Simon started work on a project to manage a small business, initially called pcshop, then renamed to erp once it became more general. The erp project is one of the larger projects in the drupal repository, with over 17000 lines of code. It is currently in use by iseek computing managing the day to day business operations quite successfully.

Development of this project has seen Simon's list of commits on the Drupal website reach 24 pages, even though erp changes are only committed intermittantly and svn is used internally at iseek. (http://drupal.org/user/143/track/code?uid=143)

Simon was one of, if not the first Australian-based developer to register on the drupal.org website, and remains one of the earliest contributors to drupal who is still active.

Martin Hrabovcin

Lead Developer

Martin Hrabovcin is currently living in Snina, Slovakia, where he is pursuing a Master of Informatics at the Faculty of Informatics and Management on Zilinska Univerzita. He also has a bachelor's degree of IT. Before joining Trellon, he was working on several projects connected with web development. While working through these projects, Martin discovered the power of the Drupal content management system.

Currently, Martin is interested in internet ecommerce solutions, internet marketing and Search Engine Optimization. He is also running an internet tire eshop in Slovakia, built on the Drupal ecommerce solution - Ubercart.

Dan Kurtz

Lead Developer

Dan Kurtz has been a Lead Developer at Trellon since 2006. Before joining Trellon, he worked in Berkeley, California, as a project assistant at the Rockridge Institute, where he discovered Drupal while designing a community-driven activism site. As it turned out, a whole bunch of worthy organizations in the Bay Area wanted the same sort of thing, so he served as the Tech Chair of the San Francisco Young Democrats and helped build sites for the California Young Democrats, East Bay Young Democrats and the Longview Institute.

Nowadays, Dan's up in Toronto, Ontario, continuing his acquisition of academic degrees in strange-sounding fields by pursuing a Masters in Information Studies at the University of Toronto. This will be his second degree with a baffling name, the first being a BA in Cognitive Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Among the research projects he works on is a privacy toolbar for Mozilla FireFox and an archive for web pages cited in academic publications. He is also enrolled in the Knowledge Media Design Institute, where he investigates user interfaces and collaborative technology. During his time in Toronto, he has become active in the local Drupal community. In 2007 he helped organize DrupalCampToronto and BarCampToronto within a month of each other. Every once in awhile, he writes Drupal modules, acts in plays, or enrolls in medical experiments. His Official Authorized Data Trail is at http//claimid.com/incidentist.

Zel Alen

Senior Developer

Zel Alen is a developer for Trellon who is responsible for development of Drupal client solutions. Zel is a graduate of Brown University with a bachelor's degree in computer science. Part of his academic training
has involved the use of technology for political analysis; during his senior year at Brown, he developed a system for indexing the proceedings of Congress by legislator, date and vote.

Zel is a firm believer in open source technologies and aims to use such tools to bridge the 'knowledge divide'. When he's not coding, he dabbles in
philosophy, writes lyrics, and asks questions like 'why are we afraid of nuclear power and not peanut butter?'.

Martin Valasek

Senior Developer and Design Strategist

Martin comes to Trellon from Ruzomberok, Slovakia, where he graduated from The University of Zilina, Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, with a bachelor's degree in IT. At the moment, he is in his last year of pursuing a Master's degree in Information Management at the same University. Before joining Trellon, Martin worked as a web developer and graphic designer on various projects in Slovakia and Ireland. He also used to develop modules for LifeType open source platform, before committing his time to the Drupal CMS. Recently, he has been interested in online sales and marketing and has been operating a scuba diving equipment shop based on Drupal and Ubercart - the Drupal ecommerce solution. He is a music addict, enjoying jazz, blues and R&B, and especially live music. He started playing drums when he was 15 and still loves it. Martin's travel dreams are to visit several countries on each continent.

Shivan Jaikaran

Senior Developer

Shivan Jaikaran graduated from The University of the West Indies with a Bsc. in Computer Science and Management. He has had a few jobs here and there, his previous being the Webmaster/IT Analyst for two and a half years at the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business in Trinidad.

Shivan is an avid open source developer and believes that software should be molded to fit the organization rather than the organization be molded to fit the software.

Shivan began tinkering with Drupal back in 2004. Today he practically lives on Drupal.

When Shivan is not geeking out (a rare event), he enjoys outdoor activities such as paintball, and jet skiing and para sailing on the sandy shores of Store Bay.

For no apparent reason, he spends a lot of his spare time upgrading his website.

At Trellon, Shivan Jaikaran is a senior developer who shares responsibility for Drupal client solutions amongst other things. He currently resides in Trinidad and Tobago.

Andrew Hoppin

Senior Strategy Consultant

Andrew co-founded Trellon with Michael Haggerty in 2004 after collaborating with him on the Clark for President campaign technology staff. Today, Andrew serves as a senior consultant on special projects and for select marquee clients such as NASA, for which he co-founded and manages the NASA CoLab program.

NASA CoLab aims to increase efficiency and transparency at NASA by building new partnerships between NASA and external communities of practice such as the entrepreneurial technology community, the global open-source software movement, and constituents in the virtual world of "Second Life." In its first year, CoLab has been extensively covered in the media by CNET, WIRED, MSNBC, Seed Magazine, the BBC, Federal Computing Week, and many other media outlets.

Andrew has also co-founded or directed business development for GoodStorm (recently acquired by Zazzle), a progressive eCommerce venture that helps organizations raise money to support themselves, and Moonfront, an aerospace design consulting firm, and CivicSpace Labs, a developer of software and communities for online organizing and advocacy.

As a consultant, Andrew has executed marketing campaigns for leading technology startups such as mobile messaging provider Jaiku (now Google) and online geographic data provider N Space Labs, and provides online strategy consulting to the Craigslist Foundation.

As a grassroots political organizer, in 2003, Andrew founded the largest local group in the Draft Clark movement, New York for Clark, and later joined the Wesley Clark for President campaign staff to help manage the campaign's voter data and the nation's first open-source campaign software volunteer program. He also co-created the "RootsCamp" political meeting series in Second Life in 2006, and the Yearly Kos "virtual convention" in Second Life in 2007.

Andrew serves on the Advisory Boards of Netroots Nation (formerly Yearly Kos), the Space Generation Foundation, the "San Jose Technology Museum's" Experimental Exhibit Design Program, Yenza and the New Organizing Institute. He also represents the Space Generation Advisory Council at the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC) in New York.

Andrew is a graduate of the NASA Academy and the International Space University, and holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Brown University and Berkeley in Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, Policy, and Management respectively.