About Us
The For ColdFusion Foundation (4CFF) is a non-profit corporation, incorporated in 2009. The management of the Foundation is overseen by a board of directors, who are elected by the 4CFF membership on an annual basis according to the corporation's bylaws. The board appoints a set of officers to manage the day-to-day operations of the Foundation and oversee 4CFF projects. Each project is managed by a self-selected team of technical experts who are active contributors to the project, according to whatever guidelines for collaborative development are best suited to that project. Below are the biographies of the Board of Directors, Officers, and key Volunteers that are dedicating their time to the For ColdFusion Foundation.
Jason Delmore - President
Jason Delmore is the Director of Technology at Risk Exhange, a Software as a Service provider for the Insurance industry. Jason was the Product Manager for ColdFusion at Adobe Systems, during the development of versions 8 and 9. For more than a decade, he has worked in most areas of application development including product management, systems administration, application development, database design, and software architecture. When Jason is not geeking out on ColdFusion applications, he is having fun with his family, fishing, or playing volleyball.
John Zhu - Treasurer and Assistant Secretary
John Zhu is the Managing Director of World Zhulu, an IT Consulting Boutique with offices in Washington DC, Paris, and Beijing. A CF developer since v4, John has also been active in open-source technologies outside of ColdFusion professionally. Furthermore in Beijing 2008, he had anchored ChinaOpen, a two-months long, summer code-camp for Chinese university students on open-source technologies. Leveraging accumulated experiences outside of CF and inside, John's mission is to help ensure the operational successes of world dominance, 4 ColdFusion, in the open-source world. John loves comedy directed at his home country of China, where he insists the members of the gymnastics team did nothing wrong as the rules actually state that "The documentation for the age, provided by the competing country, must show that the participant is old enough to compete."
Dan Wilson - Secretary
Dan Wilson, principal partner of DataCurl LLC, began his IT career at a fast-paced start-up during the dotcom heyday. He has since then held senior program and development positions in Technical Consulting, Health Care, Online Publishing and Government Contracting.
Dan spends a significant amount of time learning new technologies and techniques. He has taught and presented since 2001 after an invitation to design and lead courses in Web Development for established IT professionals at Metro IS. When not in front of a computer, you can find him biking, hiking, surfing and playing volleyball.
Sam Farmer - Chairman of the Board
Sam Farmer has been working with ColdFusion since version 3.1 and is Member of Technical Team, Interfolio. Sam has been particularly adept at not having a public bio.
Ray Camden - Board Member
Raymond Camden is a software consultant and a long time ColdFusion user. Raymond has worked on numerous ColdFusion books including the ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit and has contributed to the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update and the ColdFusion Developers Journal. He also presents at conferences and contributes to online webzines. He founded many community web sites including CFLib.org, ColdFusionPortal.org, ColdFusionCookbook.org and is the author of open source applications, including the popular BlogCFC blogging application.
Sean Corfield - Board Member
Sean is currently Chief Technology Officer for Railo Technologies US. He has worked in IT for over twenty five years, starting out writing database systems and compilers then moving into mobile telecoms and finally into web development in 1997. Along the way, he worked on the ISO and ANSI C++ Standards committees for eight years and is a staunch advocate of software standards and best practice. Sean has championed and contributed to a number of CFML frameworks and was lead developer on Fusebox for two years.
Jared Rypka-Hauer - Board Member
Jared Rypka-Hauer is founder and CEO of Continuum Media Group, LLC, based in Minneapolis, MN. Since 1998, his interests have revolved around ColdFusion and dynamic web applications. Finally making the jump to using OO methods for web development in January of 2005, he's become a presence in the web-development blogging community and has written for outlets such as FusionAuthority and ColdFusion Developer's Journal.
Jared enjoys skiing, autocross, mountain biking, horseback riding, and fishing. You'll often find him working on something mechanical when he's not working on someone's website or trying to make a ColdFusion-driven SMS-based garage door opener.
Chris Scott - Board Member
Chris Scott is an independent consultant in the Philadelphia area with nine years of coldfusion development experience and a strong interest in the implementation of open source solutions. Chris recently joined the development of the ColdSpring cfc container and began work on ColdSpring AOP, the first Aspect Oriented Programming framework for coldfusion.
Doug Morrison - Board Member
Doug Morrison is the CTO of World ZhuLu. Doug is also a punk rock musician, code monkey, and ISSO. Doug like long walks along the ocean and loves collecting furbys.