Briefly describe the staff that would be responsible for
developing and maintaining the CS. State the numbers and qualifications
of staff who could work directly on such a project. Name existing
individuals and their credentials if known. Indicate key personnel that
would need to be hired.
Brian Nosek (Executive Director, co-founder). Product vision, strategic
direction, executive management, community engagement.
Nici Pfeiffer (Product Manager/Lead). Product management; Product
requirements, UI specification development and maintenance of the
product roadmap. Supported by Sara Bowman, product manager.
Jeffrey Spies (CTO, co-founder; SHARE co-director). Product/technical
vision, strategic direction, technical architecture; management of COS
Labs (R&D)
David Litherland (Senior Project Manager). Technical management.
Previously at ScholarOne and Silverchair Information Systems.
Michael Haselton (Technical Lead). Technical leadership of developer
team.
Developers. Core for delivering on the technical requirements for The
Commons. Staffing will draw from COS’s outstanding team with some
rotation depending on matching expertise with product development tasks
for the 7 FT devs split among OSF Preprints interface, OSF supporting
tools, SHARE, add-on ecosystem, and supporting conversion/screening
services and 1 FT UI/UX designer.
Amanda Liscouski (QA Lead). Quality assurance management. Supported by
QA associates: Todd Sacco, Allison Schiller.
TBN (Technical Evangelist). Support and collaborative management with
domain data repositories and other services connecting via API to The
Commons (e.g., scholarly publishing platforms, authoring services, data
repositories).
Rebecca Rosenblatt (User Support). Service administrator, product
documentation, help desk support, and service administration. Supported
by TBN service administrator/user support. Additional service
administration personnel added as The Commons scales.
Melanie Benjamin (Funding Lead). Sustainability plan. Supported by TBN
grants specialist and TBN sustainability account manager.
Rusty Speidel (Marketing Manager). Direction of COS marketing.
Previously at major online retailers, scholarly publishers and digital
design, technology and PR firms. Speidel supported by a TBN marketing
specialist.
Matt Spitzer (Community Manager). Community engagement. Supported by
Jolene Esposito (Community Programs Lead).