Robin Barre

Learning and teaching have long fascinated Robin Barre, but it’s communicating that fills her days as tech lead and engineer at CivicActions. With each project, she assembles a cohesive team and gives them the space – and guidance – to create technical solutions that adhere to best practices and meet client requirements. An experienced Drupal coder who has contributed patches and modules back to the community, Robin has long worked with non- and for-profit clients as well as government entities. At the local government level, she has created web sites for communities, a homeless outreach center and several animal care and control groups.

Keeping the lines of communication open is what allows Robin to continually deliver web sites that meet customer needs. With OpenToSolutions.org, an initiative funded by the UC Berkeley School of Journalism to raise awareness of violence in a local community, she kept her team small and checked in regularly to insure that everyone was on track. The resulting site is a lean platform supporting multi-media content generated by the School’s grad students. Working with Architecture for Humanity, Robin was entrusted with a major back-end upgrade to an existing Drupal site. Honing in on what was most important to the client, she and her team delivered a site that the client can easily extend themselves ahead of future upgrades to functionality.

An explorer of music and form, Robin spends off-line time playing violin, drums and dancing. Her fascination with group dynamics and the concepts of learning theory – specifically applied behavioral science and positive reinforcement – keeps her inspired and continually in search of human interaction.