About the Authors

JAY BROWN

A software developer for over 25 years, Jay has been building ECM products for IBM and FileNet since 1999. These include the design and construction of the Java and .NET APIs for FileNet Content Manager.

Jay started working with CMIS in 2008 when he joined the OASIS TC (Technical Committee) and designed IBM’s first CMIS implementation for FileNet, followed by a list of other ECM CMIS projects. He was one of the original contributors for CMIS 1.0 in addition to having authored several of the new CMIS 1.1 specification features.

As the CMIS Evangelist for IBM, he works with other development projects inside and outside of the company, helping teams implement the standard while ensuring interoperability with the ever-growing CMIS ecosystem.

Jay lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife Cindy.

FLORIAN MÜLLER

Florian has been developing enterprise software since the late 1990s. His focus on document management systems began when he joined OpenText in 2002. A few years later he moved to Alfresco and is now working as an ECM Development Architect at SAP.

In 2008, Florian joined the OASIS CMIS TC (Technical Committee) and became one of the specification editors for CMIS 1.0 and later for CMIS 1.1. A year later he joined the incubator project Apache Chemistry and became the project chair in 2011 when Apache Chemistry turned into an Apache top-level project. He is one of the core developers of the Apache Chemistry subprojects OpenCMIS (Java) and DotCMIS (.NET).

Florian lives near Heidelberg in Germany.

JEFF POTTS

Jeff has been working with unstructured data and document-oriented data stores for most of his 20-year career, starting with Lotus Notes in the early 1990s, then Web Content Management and Document Management platforms like Interwoven and Documentum, until diving into the world of open source full-time in 2006. After 5 years implementing open source software for clients and playing a big part in the Alfresco community, Jeff joined Alfresco as their Chief Community Officer in 2011, where he’s responsible for growing the Alfresco community through product evangelism and developer outreach.

Jeff starting working with CMIS in 2008 when he created a proof-of-concept to integrate Drupal and Alfresco via CMIS, which eventually grew into the Drupal CMIS API module. Then, in 2009, he created cmislib, the Python API for CMIS, which later joined Apache Chemistry as the first non-Java contribution to the project. Since then, Jeff has continued to maintain cmislib and to review and comment on the CMIS specification as it continues to evolve.

Jeff lives in Dallas, Texas, with his wife, Christy, and their two children, Justin and Caroline.