Open source software brings freedom, flexibility, and innovation to a sector that has become bogged down by skyrocketing prices, monopolistic market tendencies, and annoying and burdensome litigation. But while hundreds of schools and institutions are clamoring for the benefits of open source, many are put off by the lack of enterprise support options needed to guarantee stable and successful deployments. Loom was created to meet this need by pairing the power of open source with the world class support, professional services, and hosting solutions demanded by the serious education enterprise.

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Our Team

Raymond May

In the summer of 2009 Raymond joined with Mark Bearce to found Loom. Prior to Loom, Raymond managed and developed electronic trading platforms for ICAP America. He had previously spent 12 years at JP Morgan in London and New York. Raymond has also founded Blackbird Holdings, GRN Charlotte, and Odex Group, Inc.

Mark Bearce

Mark is the CEO and Founding Director of UVCMS eLearning, a successful instructional design and learning content development company serving higher education publishers and 2- and 4-year colleges and universities. He is a strong proponent of the open source Moodle learning management system and directed UVCMS activity as an official Moodle Partner organization.

John Cornelius

As Loom’s Chief Technology Officer, John draws on his extensive experience designing highly available, scalable and secure systems. Serving as CTO of Blackbird Holdings he managed the development and deployment of electronic trading systems for derivatives. He is also is a founder of Wide Open Technologies, a firm providing technology services to small and medium sized business.

Laura Ginsberg

Laura is the Director of Course Development for UVCMS eLearning. Laura leads a team of instructional and graphic designers to create engaging, pedagogically sound, and institutionally aligned courses. Prior to UVCMS, Laura was an advisor for an educational consulting firm in Evanston, Illinois and an English literature teacher at a private school in Chicago. Laura graduated from Northwestern University.

Gary Solomon

Gary spent thirteen years as principal architect and developer of electronic trading systems for interest rate derivatives while serving as Director of Technology for Blackird Holdings Inc. He is also a founder of Wide Open Technologies, where he specializes in service oriented architectures, cloud-based platform integration, and e-commerce development.

Jonathan Langevin

Jonathan serves in the dual-role of Systems Administrator and Lead Developer at Loom. He is responsible for managing and maintaining the Linux infrastructure that powers all Loom services, and is heading development on Loom’s flagship product, Weaver. Jonathan is a self-taught PHP developer and Systems Administrator with over 10 years experience.

Kelly Brintle

Kelly serves as a Software Engineer at Loom. He is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining Loom’s flagship product, Weaver. Kelly holds a BS in Computer Science and has 9 years of software development experience.

Emily Turner

Emily leads the customer service and training efforts at Loom. Prior to joining Loom, Emily was the Customer Service and IT Manager of a large e-learning company for 6 years. During her time there, she was responsible for launching many large clients into e-learning, organizing their full support and service teams, and assisting in writing and perfecting training materials for online learning implementation.

Harriet May

Harriet recently graduated with a Masters in English Literary Studies from Durham University, UK, after receiving her BA (Hons) from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, also in the UK.

Pablo Renauld

As one of Loom’s lead graphic designers, Pablo draws on 12 years of experience as a designer. Pablo has extensive experience in graphic design, plastic art, set design and photography. He studied graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires and earned his Masters in Plastic Art from the High Institute of Arts of the Colón Theatre.