Franz Joseph Hartl

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

March 2011 – June 2011 (4 months) McLean, Va

Implemented the development of the Drupal Practice at NavigationArts, a 100 person proprietary software company, with emphasis on the open-source software development life cycle. Served as lead Drupal developer on multiple projects. Integrated Agile project management techniques with a Waterfalls project management methodology, managed internal and external Drupal resources, wrote and delivered sales proposals, created technical documents that collectively provided the blueprint for building and resourcing Drupal projects. Integrated cloud solutions for e-commerce, blast email, and hosting. Represented NavigationArts at DrupalCon 2011 in Chicago. Clients included Teach for America, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Merkle, and The World Bank.

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry

2006 – 2008 (2 years) New York, New York

Managed start-up firm that pioneered Drupal web development. Advomatic was the first company to offer highly available, highly scalable clustered hosting specifically for Drupal. Drafted and negotiated contracts and other legal agreements, created and implemented organizational development strategy, supervised financial functions and human resources department, managed outside legal counsel, deployed custom built invoice and billing system, managed payroll, implemented health insurance program. Organization's clients have included Fast Company, Natural Resources Defense Council, The New York State Senate, Sony BMG, and Viacom; political clients included Congressional and Presidential campaigns. Advomatic's work has been recognized by The New York Times, Personal Democracy Forum, and Wired.

2003 – 2005 (2 years)

By leveraging Drupal, started from scratch a youth-focused, get-out-the-vote organization that became the 29th largest section 527 tax-exempt political organization in 2004. Recruited staff, successfully led a $1.7 million fundraising effort, and coordinated activities with other 527 organizations in nationwide effort. Music for America created and maintained the Event and Volunteer Drupal modules and with sister organization, CivicSpace, employed over 40 Drupal developers. Music for America was on the front page of Drupal.org from 2004 to 2010. Music for America organized concerts involving Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, TV on the Radio, and others. Articles about Music for America appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.