Andy Lasda is a technologist with a broad background, ranging from systems and network architecture to systems administration and web application development. In his 16 years in the technology sector, Andy has also served in a variety of leadership roles including Project Manager, Technical Program Director and Business Analyst. He has extensive experience in Drupal configuration and custom module development, integration with or migration from various 3rd party systems, enterprise-level deployments, and performance tuning. He has expertise in the PHP and Perl programming languages, MySQL database, and is comfortable with a variety of operating systems, databases, and programming languages. Despite his technological bent, Andy is adept at communicating complex ideas and architectures in a way non-technical users can easily grasp, and translate non-technical concepts into site specifications and development plans.