Content-centric technology solutions

Jeff Potts
Metaversant's CEO, Jeff Potts, has been active in the Alfresco community since 2005, has won a number of Alfresco-related awards for his work in the Alfresco community as well as his popular blog, ecmarchitect.com, and wrote a well-regarded book used by people around the world who need to get ramped up on the Alfresco platform called the Alfresco Developer Guide (Packt, 2008) for which he won Packt's Author of the Year Award. In 2010, Jeff became a Founding Member of the Alfresco Community Committer Program which seeks to provide a path for members of the Alfresco Community to contribute code to the Alfresco code line.

Beyond Alfresco, Jeff has been involved in the emerging Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard. Jeff wrote a client-side Python API for CMIS-compliant servers which makes it easy for developers to write application code that can work with content repositories from many different vendors who support the standard such as Microsoft SharePoint, Documentum, IBM, Alfresco, Nuxeo, Day, and many others. The library was used by multiple vendors to test their CMIS implementations. Learn more about cmislib by reading an IBM Developerworks article Jeff wrote or check out the Introduction to CMIS tutorial on his blog.

Jeff has over 13 years of consulting experience. Prior to founding Metaversant, Jeff was the Sr. Director of the ECM practice at Optaros, a well-known open source consultancy based in Boston, Massachusetts. Before that, Jeff was a Vice President at Hitachi Consulting where he lead the ECM practice, which, at the time, was primarily focused on Documentum. Jeff joined Hitachi through its acquisition of Navigator Systems, a regional consultancy based in Dallas, which was selected as one of the 50 Best Places to Work in Texas. Jeff was a large part of the award-winning culture at Navigator and hopes to instill some of those same values in Metaversant.

Jeff lives in McKinney, Texas, just north of Dallas, with his wife and two kids. On the weekends he can be found spending time outdoors with his family, taking long rides on his recumbent bicycle, and catching as many live music shows as possible in small venues around the metroplex.