Rich Cooley


NorthPoint Solutions
USA

Rich is a partner at NorthPoint, a premier, New York-based, Open Source content management firm focused on developing enterprise Content Management System (CMS) solutions by leveraging Open Source technologies. He is responsible for all the delivery for the NorthPoint Content Solutions Practice.

Rich is a highly-accomplished, results-driven leader with 20+ years of diversified experience in large and complex technology projects at Fortune 500 companies. He has had 5 years of experience with using Open Source technologies for web applications, in addition to having specifically worked with OpenCms at Fortune 500 organizations in the Media, Publishing, Healthcare, Education, and Not-for-Profit markets.

Rich has been instrumental in directing the NorthPoint technology team to contribute back to the Open Source community and has guided them successfully through various projects that include Re-platforming  CMS’s, Performance Scaling and Tuning, and Integrated Search.

Prior to joining NorthPoint, Rich was a partner at Austin Solutions, a regional consulting firm specializing in enterprise resource planning implementations in SAP, Oracle, Siebel, and PeopleSoft. Prior to Consulting, Rich was an Executive at the United Parcel Service responsible for strategic architecture and developing their tracking application.

Latest News

  • OpenCms 18 available

    Oct 8, 2024 - OpenCms 18 adds a new "Place element" mode in the page editor that allows precise element placement as an alternative to drag & drop. Reused content is now clearly marked. Automatic typographical correction of quotation marks has been added to all of the editors. “Dead links” in content that is entered in a WYSIWYG editor are now automatically disabled. Our Mercury template includes several new features, such as setting different image formats for mobile and desktop and many more.

  • OpenCms 18 Release Notes

    Oct 8, 2024 - The OpenCms 18 release notes contain detailed information about the new features and fixes in this version.

  • Alkacon OCEE 18

    Oct 8, 2024 - Alkacon OCEE 18 is the latest OCEE release for OpenCms 18. This version features a license key mechanism that allows to share the license key on several servers in a cloud installation.

  • Documentation website for the Mercury template

    Jul 8, 2024 - The Mercury template from Alkacon Software is a comprehensive, modular template based on Bootstrap 5 for OpenCms. This feature-rich template now has a complete and exhaustive documentation website.