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Jeff Potts

Practice Director, ECM
Optaros
905 Bristlewood Dr.
McKinney USA

617-227-1855 x8145

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Jeff Potts is a lead architect at Optaros, Inc. and has over 15 years of IT and technology implementation experience in IT departments and professional services organizations. Mr. Potts' areas of expertise include document management, content management, workflow, collaboration, portals, and search.

Prior to Optaros, Mr. Potts was a Vice President at Hitachi Consulting (formerly Navigator Systems, Inc.) where he founded and grew the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) practice. During his nine-year tenure at Hitachi Consulting, Mr. Potts designed and implemented a number of large solutions such as:

  • a web-based capital expenditures tracking application for a large semiconductor manufacturer,
  • a custom web content management solution for a large consumer packaged goods company,
  • a custom, web-based CRM solution for a large consumer packaged goods company that included a version of the application that ran on a handheld device,
  • a proprietary web content management solution (Interwoven) for a national transportation and logistics company,
  • a web-based contract management application (based on Documentum) for a global airline catering company, and
  • a web content management (Documentum) implementation for a leading airline.

In addition to client work and ECM practice growth, Mr. Potts was responsible for several internal initiatives at Hitachi Consulting including a portal implementation, a collaborative team space implementation, the development of a Documentum developer training curriculum, the establishment of a development tools infrastructure, and a Learning Management System (LMS) implementation.

Mr. Potts' areas of technical expertise include:

  • Applications and Systems – Alfresco, Apache, Apache Cocoon, Autonomy, Documentum Content Server, Documentum Web Publisher, Documentum WDK/DFC, IBM WebSphere, Interwoven TeamSite, Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino, MySQL, Tomcat, Zope
  • Languages – Java, XSLT, JavaScript, Perl, Python, SQL
  • Tools – Ant, Apache FOP, Eclipse, Subversion, Microsoft Project, SVG, VMware, IBM WebSphere Application Developer, WordPress
  • Operating Systems – Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, OS X

Mr. Potts has been published in technical journals and has spoken at multiple user groups and conferences.

Mr. Potts received a BBA in Management Information Systems (MIS) from the University of Oklahoma with a minor in Economics and an MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas. Mr. Potts lives with his family in Dallas, TX.

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Open Source CMS Alfresco Releases 3.0 Preview

Alfresco has just announced the availability of the Alfresco Labs 3.0 Preview. If you've been regularly updating from HEAD there may not be a whole lot of stuff that's new to you but if you haven't, it might be a good time to see what the team in Maidenhead has been up to.

The first thing you'll notice is that Alfresco has changed the name of their freely-available Community edition to "Labs". Alfresco has always insisted that this edition is a developer build that really isn't suitable for production use. The name change is an attempt to further drive that point home.

Surf's Up

Alfresco Surf is essentially Alfresco's name for the web script framework plus some pre-built components with a framework for defining and assembling pages. The web script framework (and therefore, Surf-based sites) can now be run separately from the Alfresco repository process. This has actually been possible since 2.9 Community but now Alfresco is starting to do something with it (See "Share the Love"). In fact, some of my Optaros teammates have been working hard for Alfresco (as a client) to develop some of the content-centric components that are part of Surf and one of the new clients, Share. So Surf is essentially a web application development framework built on REST, JavaScript, FreeMarker, and YUI that you could use to build your own web apps without ever touching an Alfresco repository if you really wanted to. Assuming you do want to pull content from the repository, Surf let's you make remote calls from within Web Script controllers back to the Alfresco repository, or via AJAX using YUI components from the browser.

Share the Love

Alfresco is using Surf to build its new web client offerings. One such offering is called Share. If you've been following Alfresco's progress you'll probably recognize it by its code name, Slingshot. Share is a collaborative workspace that allows you to spawn "sites" that include things like a Document Library, Blog, Discussion Forum, Wiki, Team Calendar, and Activity Feeds. Activity Feeds are sort of like a Facebook News Feed, but instead of tracking who poked whom you are being alerted when someone updates a document, makes a new blog post, etc.. The Share client will be the core for Alfresco's frontal assault on Microsoft Sharepoint.

Speaking of, Share implements the SharePoint protocol. What does that really mean? It means that if one of the things you liked about Microsoft SharePoint was how you could work with a SharePoint Shared Workspace from within Microsoft Office applications, you no longer have to settle for an all-Microsoft stack on the back-end. You can use an Alfresco server instead. That means your users can have the functionality they like when collaborating on Office apps, while the IT department gets to keep their options open from operating system to database to application server and doesn't have to worry about scalability concerns inherent in SharePoint. Unlike prior Alfresco add-ons for Microsoft Office integration, this approach requires no additional installations on the client because Office already has the hooks for talking to SharePoint, and Alfresco Share implements the SharePoint protocol.

Jon Newton, Alfresco CTO, said in his blog post on the release, that we should expect another Labs update in September with an Enterprise release to follow some time in October.