About Aren
Aren Cambre is a manager of web technologies at a Texas university. The way he explains it is, “If the web sites look like crap, they’re yelling at Public Affairs. If it’s broken, they’re yelling at me.”
Aren is leading a Sitecore CMS implementation project. Sitecore recently recognized him as a 2010 Most Valued Professional, one of the 4 most competent developers in the United States or Canada. In this project, Aren is working to introduce modern, agile project management methodologies.
Aren knows how to fill his spare time:
He manages several Drupal sites and is involved in the Drupal community.
He the president of the Lake Park Estates Neighborhood Association. Under Aren’s leadership, the association increased membership, incorporated and got IRS 501(c)(4) status, introduced new programs, and has an unusually high community participation rate.
He does political activism. He did an exhaustive analysis of the 2008 Texas Republican Platform, where he calls for drastic improvements and shortening. He believes the platform should be in plain English, focused, and appeal to more than half of the electorate, not just the furthest right factions. See his work at Better Platform. He also served on the 2010 Republican Senate District 16 Resolutions Committee in Texas. These committees assemble grassroots resolutions and fold them into a recommendation for the state platform committee. He was also a co-author of the Speed Limits plank that was added to the state platform in 2002.
Aren is also pursing a doctorate. He has completed all coursework and is working on his qualifying examinations leading to candidacy. This prospective doctorate complements Aren’s Master of Science in Computer Science and bachelors degrees in computer science and mathematics.
Aren is married with two children and is an active member of a United Methodist church.
Contact Aren at aren@arencambre.com.
