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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Alpha Solutions works with Sitecore customers in both the private and public sectors. The implemen-
tation timeline for typical Sitecore projects with Alpha Solutions ranges between 600 and 10,000
hours. Through its experience with Sitecore, the organization has created processes and developed
knowledge regarding the control of extremely scalable and technologically complex projects.
Hedgehog Development, LLC is a recognized leader in Sitecore web content management implemen-
tations, custom application development, and integration services. The privately held company head-
quartered in Holbrook NY, serves clients around the world, ranging from global giants, to Fortune
500, to small, local companies.
Hedgehog’s specialties include .NET development and Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), SQL
server, cloud services development, and SharePoint development and implementations. The com-
pany’s developers also have considerable experience in building large-scale applications that aid cus-
tomers in making their deployment process run quickly and easily.
Built on the philosophy “If you can dream it, we can make it happen,” Hedgehog has a long record
of accomplishment in undertaking the toughest online challenges from clients and providing the
most effi cient customized solutions. Hedgehog’s industry experience, insights, and attention to detail
have earned the organization a solid reputation as the go-to company for developers working in
Sitecore Content Management System and Microsoft .NET, two of the world’s most important and
robust development platforms.
Founders Daniel Galvez and Peter C. Madsen, who have worked together professionally for 15
years, serve as Hedgehog’s core management team. The extended team of highly experienced,
senior-level developers includes Charles Turano, who is also a partner, and Sean Kearney, who in
2009 became a Sitecore MVP. The company’s well-known and highly successful Team Development
for Sitecore product (TDS —
http://bit.ly/xIx33R) provides a best-practice solution for the
development of Sitecore-based web sites. TDS works as a plug-in for the Microsoft Visual Studio
programming environment that simplifi es the process of adding Sitecore items to a source control
system and streamlines the way individuals and teams work together to develop Sitecore solutions.
In 2011, the TDS product earned Hedgehog the coveted position of Technology Partner in the
Sitecore Partner program, making Hedgehog one of only three worldwide companies partnered as
both a Sitecore Implementation and Sitecore Technology partner.
In 2010, Hedgehog’s client The Knot received the North American Sitecore Site of the Year award
and the North American Sitecore Media Site of the Year award. For more information about
Hedgehog Development, visit
www.hhogdev.com.
Alistair Deneys is a Sitecore MVP who has worked with Sitecore for six years. Alistair works as a
Solution Architect for Next Digital in Melbourne, Australia, where he designs and delivers solutions
built using Sitecore. Next Digital is the longest-standing Sitecore partner in Australia, having intro-
duced Sitecore as one of its offerings in 2004.
Prior to immersing himself in everything Sitecore, Alistair had a fascination with XSLT (eXtensible
Stylesheet Language Transformations) and wrote a simple CMS using XML, XSLT, and the Apache
ANT build engine (
http://ant.apache.org) to output static HTML pages. He used this basic
CMS to manage several smaller websites.
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