We're delighted to announce that Rich Orris has brought his outstanding development skill and design talent to pingVision.

Rich Orris has been involved with Open Source software since 1999, working as lead developer for CivicActions, LLC, web developer, graphic designer and house manager for Empire State Plaza Performing Arts Center (The Egg), and technology and information specialist for the Home Care Association of New York State.

A graduate of Wesleyan University with a BA in Computer Science and a relatively old hand in the Drupal community (rorris), Rich is an expert in web standards, PHP, MySQL, Linux, Apache, JavaScript, Shell scripting, AJAX, Ruby on Rails, XHTML, XML, CSS, Drupal, CivicSpace, CiviCRM. Rich's personal website is Strange Bird Labs.

Trained in theatrical design and computer science, Rich brings flexible capability to our staff, strengthening our coding services and design and Drupal theming services.

When we first started talking with Rich about working with us, I had known of him only through the Drupal email lists. As we've dug into a couple of projects together over the past couple of weeks, I've come to truly appreciate his insights on web development ... and his slightly bent sense of humor. Kate and I are delighted to have Rich joining the pingVision family.

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