Ed currently works for The Berndt Group, specializing in web content management systems. His work includes the planning and implementation of large scale web projects.
His projects include work for Mercantile Bank, The National Aquarium in Baltimore, Glen Echo Park, and significant work on the staff intranet and public website of one of the country's most effective lobbying organizations.
He is experienced with both custom developed content management systems as well as third party products. He has significant experience with Reddot's CMS and LiveServer Application Server. He also has experience with Ektron's CMS400.NET, Crownpeak's Advantage CMS and Rhythmyx Percussion. Ed is involved in the CMS implementation process from start to finish, from product selection, to design consulting to final production and maintenance.
In his free time, Ed has built content managed sites for deserving non-profit organizations. He has created a Drupal powered, community driven, site for The Conrail Historical Society, a non-profit preservationist group based in Pennsylvania.
Before coming to the Berndt Group, Ed consulted on a number of content managed projects, including designing a web content management solution for NATO's Allied Command Transformation as well as wide range of other clients.
Ed got his start in web development working with the Delaware Community College's Cyberteam, helping to develop a number of projects for the college, but is most proud of the work he did getting various departments and individual professors to take advantage of the blossoming internet to better reach their students and facilitate their learning.
Ed attended UMBC and earned a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies. This discipline taught Ed a multi-disciplinary approach to problem solving and to appreciate the deeper meanings and causes of the things we do, giving him an incite into user behavior that has helped create more personable and usable web projects.
Ed worked for a number of years at MB Klein, one of the countries leading model railroad multi-channel retailers. He helped lead the company onto the internet, greatly expanding their online presence from a simple site with contact info to an online product catalog and online ordering system. This site contained thousands of multi-faceted items that were encompassed in a complex information architecture.