CivicActions

While Doug Green is a tech lead and partner at CivicActions, he could just as easily be called “head geek.” With a computer science degree from the College of Engineering at Cornell, Doug has over 20 years of programming experience and has morphed from C++ and Unix junkie to PHP and Drupal guru. As a core contributor to Drupal, he has given numerous patches and over twenty modules back to the coding community and contributed heavily to the Drupal 6 release. His two most significant contributions are a search engine module used by thousands of developers and a code review module which is now a standard part of a coder's tool kit.

With an eye toward maximizing a client's efficiency and expanding their reach, it is Doug's technical wizardry that serves to propel the causes they represent. On behalf of a legislative client, he created the U.S. Congress module, which gathers legislative data (such as that in H.R. Bills) that can be used in a variety of ways. Working for Rare Conservation, a 30-year-old environmental organization with global campaigns, Doug's campaign management system, a custom application that streamlines work flow and generates a sophisticated scoring system for each campaign, allows the organization to analyze and quantify its far-reaching efforts.

Doug's political metamorphosis has its roots in Texas, where the onetime registered Republican switched parties and became a key supporter of John Kerry in 2004. Building DallasForKerry.com, the tech-driven initiative rallied over 3,000 volunteers, one of the largest in Texas at that time. Having landed in one of the most conservative counties in Florida, Doug believes his political energies are now better spent on behalf of CivicActions' clients.