A business and technology enthusiast, David Cummings founded Hannon Hill Corporation in 2001 with the goal to provide powerful XML web content management (WCM) solutions, with an emphasis on personalized customer service.
A WCM subject matter expert, David’s articles have been published on O'Reilly's XML.com and OnJava.com, in addition to popular web development sites such as SitePoint.com. He has presented at the Silicon Valley Web Guild, for Silicon Networks, and the Independent Computer Consultants Association (ICCA).
With more than 10 years of software development experience, David is an experienced programmer and has written code for commercial applications in Java, PHP, ASP, and Visual C++. Prior to founding Hannon Hill Corporation, David worked as an engineer for IBM.
David serves as chairman of the board of the Technology Association of Georgia Content Management Society. A native of Tallahassee, Florida, David holds a bachelor of science degree in economics from Duke University.
Recently, several Hannon Hillians and I had the opportunity to attend the annual Educause Conference in Seattle, Washington. Educause focuses on topics that are relevant to IT specialists in higher education. Hannon Hill attended this popular conference to network with and present our content management solution, Cascade Server, to technology experts in the education industry.
We had our first and only experience of Seattle’s infamous rainy weather on the first day of the sold-out conference. The location had been planned ten years in advance, and the attendance was much larger than expected with 4,300 full conference registrants and over 2,000 exhibitor registrants from 230 companies. The conference was forced to turn away an additional 2,000 prospective attendees. Thankfully, we registered early and were able to learn valuable information from the panels which covered subjects such as “Tomorrow’s Students: Are we Ready for the new 21st Century Learners,” “Disaster Planning: Maintaining Academic Programs During a Pandemic,” and “The Role of Information Technology in an Age of Access, Affordability, and Accountability.” We were also delighted to chat with many of our clients and prospects.
If you missed out on Educause this year, you can check out some of the sessions on the Conference Happenings page on the Educause 2007 site. We had a great time and look forward to attending Educause again next year!