Team

the alonovo.com team

We are proud to have many talented people that have touched or evolved the alonovo mission. Below include original core team members and others that have been or continue to be involved on a daily basis.

George A. Polisner, Concept Architect (and Marketing, Mail Room, Data Entry, Fair Trade Coffeemaking... the Works)

George was part of the original founding alonovo.com team in 2005. He has over 25 years of technology experience beginning with early variants of the UNIX Operating System. Prior to Co-founding alonovo, George was a Director at Oracle Corporation, and led their Performance Architecture practice in the Western U.S., served on the Oracle On Demand Customer Advisory Board and architected several important products, services and innovations for Oracle. He has served as a consultant to Dell, Inc., Ernst & Young, Texas and Arizona State Government, Motorola, Honeywell and the Maricopa County Community College District.

Randy Fay, Lead Drupal Software Engineer

Randy led the alonovo 2.0 rewrite effort and our complex Amazon API integration. He's amazing and if we could afford him all the time we'd probably be on alonovo 4.0 by now. Randy is meticulous, incredibly smart and possesses deep Drupal experience and we are very grateful for his past and continuing effort on behalf of the alonovo community.

alonovo.com alumni and contributors

Dennis Irwin, Software Engineering, Mentor and Friend

Dennis dove into our Ruby on Rails and JAVA code on a volunteer basis and fixed an issue that was causing our community issues when trying to buy apparel. Many of our early ideas about the alonovo concept were shaped in many socio-economic discussions with Dennis while working together in the 1990's. He was a dear friend and mentor. He passed away on July 8, 2008 -having been ravaged by ALS (commonly called Lou Gehrig's Syndrome). Dennis was a quiet hero, preferring the background and strategy to the spotlight. You are missed everyday my friend.

Ethan McCutchen, SR Data Strategy

Ethan McCutchen is the executive director of Grass Commons and the primary architect of the Network of Integrated Consumer Knowledge (NICK), a software-driven initiative to standardize consumer information to be shared by a great variety of shopping applications. His software career began in 1999 when he joined Two Radical Technologies in northern Virginia as a novice and quickly mastered several computer languages and developed his proclivity for software architecture. He has taught English in Russia and Japan,studied cognitive neuroscience in Scotland, researched primates in Thailand, volunteered in several Latin American countries, and backpacked wherever else he could. Ethan graduated magna cum laude from Davidson College in 1997 with a degree in music composition.

Lewis Hoffman, SR Data Architect

Lewis Hoffman is a co-founder of Grass Commons, where he serves as technical director. Previously with Two Radical Technologies (1998-2004) he led development on a powerful, modular, integrated suite of web applications called Advocacy Central. During that time he also completed his master’s in Computer Sciences from George Mason University, focusing on artificial intelligence. He’s also earned degrees from Davidson College in German and Physics. His broad software interests include information retrieval and extraction, data integration, the semantic web, and virtual machines.

Matt Cowley, SR Software Engineer

Matt has been working as a software engineer for more than 15 years. He has a degree in computer science from Georgia Tech and has worked for companies such as The Jackson Laboratory, Syniverse, and many startups and small companies. He is also a professional musician and an award-winning audio theatre writer/producer/actor; more information about Matt can be found at madcowley.com

John Cesario, Business Development

John has worked in the media and technology sectors for over 15 years, successfully executing roles in executive management and business development, with extensive knowledge in the areas of home entertainment networking, streaming media, content development and production, and the broadcast, music and cable industries. From a successful songwriting career with Arista Music Publishing and Windswept Pacific Music Publishing, John parlayed his knowledge of media production to become Vice President of Creative and Production Services for EDR/Beachwood Studios, and then Vice President of Strategic & Business Development for EDR Media Corporation, a 125-person media company, servicing the broadcast, music, and advertising industries. In 2003, John became General Manager for Skyline Public Works, the cultural and political funding and incubation company of venture capitalist Andy Rappaport, where he worked until 2006.

Hooman Daniel Rabieh, Marketing and Alliances

Hooman has seen technology startups up close for many years,having been involved in his own efforts, as well as during his many years as Business Development Manager for the Corporate Marketing Group at Intel Corporation. Hooman also founded a graphics startup at Intel's New Business Investments Division, managed the Intel media lab at the Creative Artists Agency in Hollywood and had managed relationships and deals with many high profile companies such as Sony, Disney and Electronic Arts.

Nadeen Sakowski, Operations

Nadeen Sakowski brings with her over 20 years experience in the software industry. She previously served as the VP of Engineering at Extenta, a software company that developed a RAD tool for Wireless applications. Prior to that she was Director of Engineering at Selfcare.com, an e-commerce company. In the past, she has served in various management capacities for Serena, Thru-Transport, Legent, and Computer Associates. Her management background is complimented by a technical background and experience in development, support, and QA. Nadeen holds a BA from the University of Connecticut and an MA from the University of Arizona.

K. Joey Shepp, Co-Founder and Board Member

Joey Shepp is a visionary artist, entrepreneur, technologist, ecologist, and eternal optimist. In addition to co-founding alonovo.com, he is the founder of Earthsite.net, a website design, development, and hosting company with a mission of building a global network of sustainable businesses. Mr. Shepp’s professional consulting work in business, marketing and technology has included major players in the sustainable economy movement, including: Global Exchange, Coop America, Green Festivals,Fantastic Foods, Julia Butterfly Hill, GreenMBA, WholeLife, GreenHome.com, and more. Joey holds a degree in Ecological Design and an MBA in Sustainable Enterprise (www.greenmba.com). He currently lives in Marin County, just north of San Francisco,California. There he studies and teaches Aikido, bikes in the surrounding mountains, eats organic food and drives a hybrid car. Learn more about Joey Shepp at www.shepp.org.

Dorinda Moreno—Community Outreach

Dorinda Moreno earned a Cesar Chavez Lifetime Achievement Award, for her service with the United Farm Workers. Dorinda Moreno is a veteran Chicana Mescalera woman with lifetime of experience developing friendship associations in the indigenous community,anchoring communications and forming a vital presence in the realm of social networks serving the survival of indigenous culture and traditional people's. Dorinda's work dates from a childhood of mixed Mexican, Apache, Navajo, family lineage, and roots in New Mexico and Mexico. While at San Francisco State University, Dorinda served both as a student and teacher in La Raza, Native American, and Women Studies.

Shari Aaron,Fresh Marketing, Katonah, NY, Public Relations

Ellis Neder,Sway Design, NY, NY, Graphic Design, Project Lead and Technology Interfaces

Amy Weiher,Weiher Creative, Los Altos, CA, Protoype Graphic Design and Magician

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