Carl Grant

Ron Passmore

Ezra Scwartz

Tracie Rossi

Aaron Grant

Carl Grant, President. Carl is a librarian and business person who has worked in libraries, or companies automating libraries, for over 30 years. He holds a Bachelors in Education and an Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Missouri. He has worked for a number of library automation companies including: Data Research Associates, Inc. (DRA now part of SIRSI/Dynix), where he was the Vice President of International Business; Innovative Interfaces as their Vice President of Sales and Marketing; Ameritech Library Services (now part of SIRSI/DYNIX) where he was Vice President of Marketing, Product Management and International Business; Ex Libris (USA) as President, during which time Ex Libris became a leading vendor of automation systems in North America; VTLS as President and COO where he was responsible for the Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW) project using VITAL and Fedora . In 2007, he co-founded and serves as President of CARE Affiliates, Inc. This company specializes in open source software and provides consulting, selection, implementation, maintenance, support and development services around selected open source solutions including Fedora-based repositories. He has been the Chair and Immediate Past Chair of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and serves on the Fedora Advisory Board. He speaks and publishes about libraries, repositories and automation to audiences around the world.

Ron Passmore, Affiliate. Ron has held senior positions in numerous library automation companies, including being President of Dynix Canada (now SirsiDynix). He has also worked at Ameritech Library Systems, Ex Libris, Inc.and VTLS, Inc.

Ezra Schwartz, Affiliate. Ezra is a user experience architect with over 15 years of experience in turning complexity into sophistication by developing advanced user interfaces that are productive, accessible and  easy to use. Ezra has special interest in solving workflow and task localization complexities,  in data visualization and personalization, and in rich interaction models for the Semantic Web. Ezra has a deep familiarity with the information and library market, as the interface architect of some of the leading products in that domain.

Tracie D. Rossi, Affiliate. Tracie has over 20 years of experience in marketing and the creation of brand identity and the development of marketing collateral such as product data sheets, brochures and informational flyers. She also has extensive experience in trade show event management and overall marketing communications for corporations, associations and non-profits. 

Aaron Grant, Affiliate. Aaron is responsible the Chicago office of CARE Affiliates. By training he is a trained and experienced audio engineer, jazz guitarist and guitar technician with a degree in sound engineering from Columbia College. His work experience include serving as an engineer in various sound studios and in sales for Bell South.

Other Affiliates. CARE works with a number of other part-time affiliates who are not listed here. These are people who do technical programming and consulting work with us on a project basis. If you would like to be one of those affiliates, please contact us.

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