Our Team

The Zivtech team is based in Philadelphia, PA. Our development expertise is as diverse as our personal interests and backgrounds. Learn more about our individual team members, as well as their development and design expertise, below:

Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg Partner / CEO	Jody Hamilton Partner / CTO	Mason Wendell Creative Director / VP of Creative
Howard Tyson VP of Engineering	Aaron Couch Project Manager / Developer	Matt Klein Developer
Steven Heise Developer	Stephen Haslett Developer	Laurence Liss Developer
Tim Plunkett Community Lead	Sean Wolfe Coding Designer	Andrew Wilson Client Service Specialist
Meghan Palagyi Coding Designer	Tony Capponi Project Manager	Benji Davis Senior Project Manager
Charles Hoffman Business Manager	Meghan Ramos Office Manager \| Executive Assistant	David Dagino Junior Developer
Ryan Gibson Junior Developer	Ryan Rudolph Intern

Zivtech's Community Contributions

Add an index to {users}.picture so user_file_delete() isn't insanely slow

I was trying to figure out why file deletions were so slow on my site. After running SHOW PROCESSLIST a few times it became...
Migration of the entity reference fields

Cleaned up some code and fixed one other issue with empty values.
Date module problem with form_alter and #disabled

By removing the return statement in date_elements.inc did seem to solve the issue but I think it probably will break some...
Ctools context plugin error

Context plugins aren't getting their $conf defaults loaded. Undefined index error 'entity_id' in plugins/contexts/entity.inc...
Cannot create a search page

When trying to create a search page at admin/config/search/search_api/page/add, the server is returning: HTTP Error 500 (...
webform service patch

Made changes to dosomething_services to get the user creation bypassing the email verification. Started looking at creating...
Add permissions to entityqueues

Migrated over nodequeues and had no place to put the values from nodequeue_roles.
Views Table Display patch

In views, tables have an option of not displaying a column if all of the values on the related field are empty. When this...
Webform Entity

Webform Entity exposes webform submissions as a fieldable entity on behalf of webform and provides a bundle for each content...
DrupalCampNYC 10

Zivtech was in New York City again for DrupalCamp NYC, December 10, 2011. Zivtech was a premium sponsor of the camp and a...
HigherEdCamp Philly 2011

Zivtech sponsored HigherEdCamp Philly, 2011 (http://www.higheredphilly.com/).
DrupalCamp Austin 2011

Zivtech was in Austin, Texas again for DrupalCamp Austin, November 19-20, 2011. Zivtech sponsored the camp and our CEO, Alex...
Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit

Zivtech was in Portland, Oregon for the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit October 14 -16, 2011.
HighEdWeb 2011

Zivtech was a silver sponsor at HighEdWeb 2011. Alex also presented on the first day of the conference. The topic of his...
Acquia Webinar about Node.js

Zivtech's Senior Developer, Howard Tyson, recently conducted a Node.js webinar with our Drupal partner, Acquia.
Drupaldelphia, 2011

Zivtech sponsored and helped organize the 4th annual Drupaldelphia, held in Alter Hall at the Fox School of Business on the...
CapitalCamp 2011

Zivtech was a gold-level sponsor and organizer of CapitalCampDC (July 22-23, 2011). The successful camp was the first to be...
Embedded Media Field - Multiple Vulnerability Fix

We were alerted that multiple security holes were discovered in the emfield module suite.
Delete Entire Book

When using the book module from Drupal core, this patch allows the deletion of an entire book at once, rather than having to...
Salesforce module node and user reference sync

This patch allows node relationships in Drupal to be synced up with object relationships in Salesforce using node and user...
GlueCon 2011

The Zivtech crew is looking forward to GlueCon 2011 on May 25-26th!
DrupalCamp Colorado

It’s DrupalCamp season! Find the Zivtech crew at DrupalCamp Colorado (June 11-12, 2011).
DrupalCamp Twin Cities

We recently signed-up as a Gold Sponsor for the event. This DrupalCamp is the first to be hosted in the Minneapolis/St. Paul...
Museums and the Web 2011

Zivtech was a proud sponsor of Museums and the Web 2011 (Philadelphia, April 6-11).
DrupalCon Chicago 2011

Zivtech was a Silver sponsor of DrupalCon Chicago, held in March 2011, and also hosted a training and presented on two...
DrupalCon San Francisco 2010

DrupalCon San Francisco was the largest DrupalCon to date, with 3,000 people.
views_field_view query aggregation

views_field_view is a module that allows you to embed one view as a field inside another view. An argument may be passed in...
Patch to date module
Migrating Drupal off of CVS!

As a part of the herculean effort currently underway to migrate Drupal.org to git Howard joined the Git Migration Team.
Alfresco Webinar: Integrating with Drupal and Salesforce.com

One of the things we've been actively working on at Zivtech is integrating Drupal with other well known systems.
Private Upload

Jody co-maintains the Private Upload module, which solves a problem not addressed with Drupal's normal solution to private...
Mailing Label

Mailing label module helps users create mailing labels from any data that can be accessed through views.
Iconify

This module adds span tags to the fieldset, li and dt tags in the admin areas of Drupal, making it easier to add icons to...
Views Galleriffic

This module allows Drupal to create image galleries by integrating the Galleriffic JQuery plugin with Views.
Media: Image Flotsam

Alex's Image Flotsam provides a way to integrate media from a variety of image content providers with the Embedded Media...
Media: Video Flotsam

Alex's Video Flotsam provides a way to integrate media from a variety of audio/video content providers with the Embedded...
Getting to Know Drupal - hosted by PANMA

On September 28, 2010, Alex and Jody spoke at the Philadelphia Area New Media Association's learning event titled Getting to...
Drupal Security White Paper Sponsor

Security is one of the greatest benefits of open source solutions.
HigherEdCamp 2010

Zivtech was a proud sponsor of the 2010 HigherEdCamp, which is "a one day un-conference connecting communities involved in...
Drupaldelphia 2010

Zivtech was proud to sponsor Drupaldelphia 2010--which was held at Temple University--and to chip in on the site and...
Lightbox2 Compact View

Lightbox2 is a display mode for Drupal images in a popup (allowing you to display thumbnails that pop into a larger view...
fix broken Drupal 7 HEAD

Fix some broken Drupal 7 HEAD tests in the dblog.module.
DrupalCamp NYC 6

Aaron ran an Intro to Theming presentation at Drupal Camp NYC 6.
fix bug in drupal_write_record()

"woo, this is a nice bug. its actually drupal_write_record that is broken for the case where we run a valid update query,...
a couple of core patches

The system list issue has one patch landed, one to go (at the time of writing, the second is RTBC). We can cut a few queries...
Stable chatroom 6.x-2 release

The Chatroom module needed some love, so I've brought it up to scratch for Drupal 6.x.
Views Integration Patch for Feeds

This is a small patch to the Feeds module to add some basic Views integration.
Team Ubercore

Jody went to the Ubercore San Francisco planning sprint and is contributing as part of the Ubercore team to essentially...
Unfuddle API

The Unfuddle API module opens up Unfuddle's APIs to Drupal developers. Unfuddle is a work management and task tracking...
Media: National Public Radio

Adds integration with the National Public Radio (NPR) API for Embedded Media Field.

Our Team

Partner / CEO

Partner / CTO

Creative Director / VP of Creative

VP of Engineering

Project Manager / Developer

Developer

Developer

Developer

Developer

Community Lead

Coding Designer

Client Service Specialist

Coding Designer

Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Business Manager

Office Manager | Executive Assistant

Junior Developer

Junior Developer

Intern

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