Lee Raney

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About

Lee is a Drupal web developer and an expert in web trends, technologies, and social media.  He has an MBA and 12 years of experience in web development, project management, and IT consulting including:

• Project Manager for a leading Dallas interactive agency, managing global website launches for Fortune 500 clients.
• ERP systems consultant, including implementations, project management, training, support and testing. Primarily SAP and Oracle EnterpriseOne.
• Architecting, building, implementating, testing and training of enterprise software and web-based applications.
• Past corporate clients- Procter and Gamble, Dean Foods, Mannatech, Sikorsky Aircraft, Standard Pacific Homes, Praxair, Symbol Technologies
• Past non-profit clients- Samaritan's Purse, Life Outreach, John Hagee Ministries, Focus on the Family, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Crown Financial Ministries

Before co-founding Koine Media, Lee helped build several Christian websites including a social networking site.  The practical experience of operating a social networking site and growing it to over 65,000 members provides rare experience on the business and management side of social networking and insight into the best practices for using Drupal for social networking.

Lee has made several radio and TV appearances as an expert in on-line media, particularly in the non-profit sector.  He has helped churches and non-profits with podcasting and on-line video through the SermonCast service, and more recently with MyFaith.com - a Christian video site.

Lee is active in the Drupal community ("obiwan" on Drupal.org) and co-leads the Dallas Drupal Group.  He resides in Frisco, Texas with his wife Jennifer and two sons.

 

Why Drupal?

I have used different CMS platforms over the years, but a few years ago I was involved with a CMS selection process for a social networking site and for the first time saw clear advantages of Drupal over other CMS and development frameworks. At that time Drupal 5 was just coming out. Now that I know the community better and have worked with Drupal 6 I am even more passionate about Drupal and believe it is the best open source development platform for the next generation of websites.