Ken Wasetis, President and Solution Architect, Contextual Corporation
CMS Expo Chicago 2009: Video interview with Matt at CMSExpo Video Feed Raw Video from the SDRNewsroom - as seen by viewers live.
Interviewer: Andy McCaskey
Ken Wasetis is President and Solution Architect of Contextual Corporation.
Contextual is a Chicago-area-based open source software solutions firm
that specializes in implementing the Plone CMS, as well as developing
custom functionality, designs, and integration connectors to weave a
web best-of-breed web business solutions for its clients.
Ken is
a member of the Plone Foundation and has presented at numerous Plone
Conferences and has been involved with various Plone development
sprints and planning summits, in an attempt to help with the continuous
improvement of the Plone CMS and to allow Contextual to give back to
the Plone community.
Some of Contextual's specialty custom integration and development efforts include:
Connectors for SugarCRM and Salesforce customer relationship management software for sales and
marketing teams
Connectors for iMIS and other membership management software for professional associations and non-profits
The PloneGetPaid e-commerce add-on module for Plone
Custom SaaS (Software as a Service) web services development on a per-client basis,
leveraging SOAP and XML-RPC
Ken has worked with clients in many industries including:
Large federal government agencies with strict security and standards-compliance requirements
Professional associations such as Legal Marketing Association with complex member-management and collaboration portal needs
Fortune 100 firms such as Gap Inc. for enterprise intranet applications
Non-profits such as Chicago History Museum with demanding site
traffic and rich theme design implementation and content publishing
needs
Technology start-ups that require maximum ROI and who already
realize the power and value open source solutions offer, such as
Cleversafe.com
Entertainment firms with high traffic requirements, such as Feld
Entertainment, whose SupercrossOnline.com site attracts millions of
viewers each weekend that it appears on CBS television
Contextual is proud to be the first Plone integrator to be working
with CMS Expo, and looks forward to working with the CMS Association
and the Plone Foundation to help build a full Plone track for future CMS Expo conferences.
