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).