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Ken Wasetis is President and Solution Architect of Contextual Corporation.  Contextual is a Chicago-area-based open source software solutions firm that specializes in implementing the Plone CMS, as well as developing custom functionality, designs, and integration connectors to weave a web best-of-breed web business solutions for its clients.

Ken is a member of the Plone Foundation and has presented at numerous Plone Conferences and has been involved with various Plone development sprints and planning summits, in an attempt to help with the continuous improvement of the Plone CMS and to allow Contextual to give back to the Plone community.

Some of Contextual's specialty custom integration and development efforts include:

• Connectors for SugarCRM and Salesforce customer relationship management software for sales and marketing teams
• Connectors for iMIS and other membership management software for professional associations and non-profits
• The PloneGetPaid e-commerce add-on module for Plone
• Custom SaaS (Software as a Service) web services development on a per-client basis,
  leveraging SOAP and XML-RPC

Ken has worked with clients in many industries including:

• Large federal government agencies with strict security and standards-compliance requirements
• Professional associations such as Legal Marketing Association with complex member-management and collaboration portal needs
• Fortune 100 firms such as Gap Inc. for enterprise intranet applications
• Non-profits such as Chicago History Museum with demanding site traffic and rich theme design implementation and content publishing needs
• Technology start-ups that require maximum ROI and who already realize the power and value open source solutions offer, such as Cleversafe.com
• Entertainment firms with high traffic requirements, such as Feld Entertainment, whose SupercrossOnline.com site attracts millions of viewers each weekend that it appears on CBS television

Ken and his partner, Brett Wangman, presented "What About Plone CMS?" at the pre-conference and Ken presented "Sweet Integration: Plone & SugarCRM" at the CMS Expo Chicago 2009 and is proud to be the first Plone integrator to be working with CMS Expo.

At CMS Expo Chicago 2010, Ken will be presenting Plone KickStart 1: Guided Tour of Plone and Plone Security, SSO and Saas. Ken will also co-present, Plone at Rice U. Connexions & Lightning Talks, Plone for Education and Plone Recap/Q&A sessions.

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