After nearly four years at Optaros I’ve decided to start a new chapter in my career. I’ve created a new firm called Metaversant that is focused on providing content-centric solutions and consulting to clients across all verticals and geographies. Based on my deep experience with the platform and my active participation in the community, I expect Metaversant to be heavily-focused on Alfresco. We may broaden into other technologies over time, but the over-arching theme will be to help companies get the most out of their digital assets–whether that’s documents, web content, rich media, or legal records–by leveraging Enterprise-ready, open, rich content repositories.
On one hand, I was sad to leave Optaros–it was a great place to work with lots of smart people and interesting clients/projects. And I had fun building the ECM practice into a significant portion of overall revenue. On the other hand, the timing felt right to make this change and I’m very excited about starting my own company. Optaros and I are on great terms and I’m sure we’ll find ways to do business together going forward.
There are a lot of to-do’s to get Metaversant fully functional as a corporation, but nothing’s more important than the success of your project. If you are looking for help in any of the following areas, we should talk:
- Customized, on-site Alfresco developer training
- Short-term tactical technical assistance
- Architectural reviews/product fit assessments
- Content Management customization & implementation leadership
- Custom content-centric application development & integration
- Domino.Doc, Vignette, Stellent, or other legacy ECM migrations
You can contact me at “jpotts” at either this domain or metaversant.com.
As usual, keep an eye out here for news on Metaversant (like a link to the yet-to-be-built web site) and other content management news and thanks for your continued support!
Congrats, and welcome to the recent CMS job change club. Good luck with the new place – sounds like fun. Where are you planning to have bases for projects?
Thanks, Jon. Projects will be staffed out of regions that are not downwind of Icelandic volcanoes. 🙂 I’d like to build a Dallas-based team as that’s where I’m located but I’ve had success with geographically-distributed teams so I’m going to prioritize skillset, quality, and experience above physical location.
Fantastic stuff 🙂 Congratulations Jeff. Excited to see where this leads
Me too, Amar!
Jeff,
All the best to you!
Rich McKnight
Congrats Jeff!
Jeff,
that’s great news!!! You were missed at AIIM. Best of luck with your projects!
Congrats, Jeff!
Best wishes! Selfishly hope this doesn’t lead to fewer tutorial posts!
Congratulations Jeff. Since from last 15 month I have started working on Alfresco and i am following your blogs regularly to update myself.
Good luck with the new company!
Jeff,
Congratulations and best of luck in your new venture.
Jean
COngratulations and good luck! I look forward to our continued collaborations and expect many great things to come out of it.
Congratulations and the best of luck!
Will you still be contributing to the Alfresco community as you did while @ Optaros?
Regards, Peter
Congratulations Jeff. Looking forward to hearing about the inevitably great things you are bound to achieve.
Peter — Most definitely! The Alfresco Community is important to me personally as well as my new company.
Congratulation and best wishes for this new adventure!
I only hope you’ll still find the time to keep up with the awesome job you’ve been doing with this blog.
Congratulations Jeff, all the best with the new firm! Any plans for Drupal alongside Alfresco?
Once the dust settles we’ll all know where everyone has ended up!
Thanks, Zahoor. Drupal-Alfresco continues to be a winning combination and I’m proud to be one of the original developers of that integration. I hope to continue to be involved with it and implement it as a key piece of client solutions.
Thanks, skuro. I’m going to try!
Many congrats on the big leap! Good luck!
Congratulations from me as well!
All the best to you Jeff!
Hey Jeff –
That’s really exciting news! You’re a fantastic person to work with and a great asset to the Alfresco community.
I wish you all the best with Metaversant and look forward to continue collaboration in the future!
Michael
All the best and Congratulations for your new venture Jeff…
Hi Jeff,
Congratulations for your new project and best wishes!
Toni.
Hi Jeff,
I’ve been following you quite some time now and the startup of Metaversant is not a surprise for me. Hope to see more great things from you!
Martin.
Hey Jeff,
This is fantastic news indeed. I wish you all success in your new venture, and fully expect that more good things are just around the corner. All the best!
Subhajit
Just saw the update and wish you all the best of success in this new and exciting business! Enjoy…
Hi Jeff,
Wish you success for Metaversant. I’m pretty sure it will rise fast.
Regards,
Luis
Best of luck in your new endeavor, Jeff. I’m sure you’ll be very successful; the thought leadership evident in your blog makes it inevitable.
Omar
Thanks, Omar! Great to hear from you.
Congrats..
Everyone @ Optaros is rooting for you, Jeff. Here is wishing you continued success.
Patrick