Aron Trauring
Professional Activities
Companies
I am the co-founder/co-owner of an Open IT solutions company:Zoteca
Zoteca provides IT products, support, training and consulting services using Free/Open Source software (FOSS). Our area of speciality is rapid development of distributed network applications. We also provide FOSS solutions for web-based application development, as well as the deployment of FOSS in the enterprise both for infrastructure and desktop.
An interactive agency I co-founded in 1994, still publishes several online magazines:
Jewish Heritage Online Magazine
Jewish Greeting Cards
Whole Pop Magazine Online
To reach me regarding business activities, email me at atrauring(at)zoteca.com (NB: to avoid spammers who crawl websites for email addresses, I use '(at)' for '@').
Professional Activities
You can find a professional 'blurb' here. You can find my full resume here. As part of my professional activities, I have spoken at numerous professional and trade conferences. I have presented at corporate seminars and training programs at major corporations around the world (U.S., Europe and Japan).I am a member of the board of the New York Software Industry Association, and head up its Open Source SIG.
Writings
On occassion, I do writing for pay and/or promotion. Here is some recent stuff I've written:Software Methodologies: Battle of the Gurus
FOSS Field Guide
Python - Language of Choice for EAI
I have a weblog which provides information about agile software development and its inter-relation to Free/Open Source Software. You will find articles, comments and resources about these and related topics.
Training
I also do professional training. I wrote the curriculum for and taught several T++ Technical Training Program's courses. The courses are sponsored by the New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA) and managed by the CUNY Institute of Software Design and Development (CISDD).The materials for the courses may be found here.
I do training in Linux certification at Netcom Information Technology.