Jens Vagelpohl - Owner, Software Engineer¶

Jens Vagelpohl has worked for Zope Corporation, the publisher of the Zope web application server, for five years. When he left he had advanced to manage the Zope Corporation Managed Hosting program which involved planning and execution of software deployments as well as the creation and maintenance of all network services needed to support some of the largest Zope-based deployments in the world.

This unique experience and competence is now available through zetwork which he established in 2004.

Experience and career at a glance

• 1996: Graduated “summa cum laude” from Northwood University in Midland/Michigan with a BBA in Marketing and Management.
• 1999: Completion of studies at Eastern Michigan University resulting in a Masters of Science degree in Information Systems.
• 1997-1999: Systems and network administrator at the Washtenaw Development Council, the economic development agency responsible for Washtenaw county in Michigan, home of Eastern Michigan University.
• 2000-2004: Software developer and head of the Zope Managed Hosting program at Zope Corporation.
• 2004: Established zetwork GmbH in Oldenburg, Germany.
• 2014: Conversion from limited liability corporation into freelance status

Jens is actively involved in various Open Source projects such as Zope, the Zope Content Management Framework (CMF) and other Zope-related projects. He publishes a collection of his own software at dataflake.org.

Veit Schiele Communications GmbH, Berlin¶

The company was established in 1994 to make software more useful. Veit Schiele Kommunikationsdesign helps us developing software that is easy and quick to use, based on many years of experience designing complex yet intuitive business-specific software solutions. To achieve high user satisfaction we also employ Veit Schiele for technical documentation, help system design and training classes.

ZOPYX (Andreas Jung), Tübingen¶

ZOPYX has been working in the electronic publishing and web-based application field for many years. Their specialties include complex CMS applications, workflow-based systems, highly scalable database applications and media sites, specialized solutions for the broadcast industry and universities as well as customizing Zope- and Plone-based systems. Their lead developer Andreas Jung has collected a wealth of Plone and Zope knowledge in his role as Zope release manager and Zope/Plone core developer.

We are proud to have attracted ZOPYX as our partner for CMS- and Plone-based development.