Kenny Silanskas

Technical Account Manager/Team Lead

Kenny Silanskas has been working in the field of marketing and website development for over 10 years. He has been responsible for the development and deployment of e-commerce and content managed systems for nationally recognized organizations such as the American Polygraph Association.

His diverse background in entertainment marketing has led him to spearhead both web and public relations projects in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Dallas and more than 10 other major US cities. He was also the lead website engineer for the Manchester, NH production of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”. He has contributed to the Drupal community for 5 years speaking at DrupalCon, Drupal Camps, and opening the Lullabot fashion show, Geek => Chic, in Chicago.

In his spare time, he is a published playwright and professional singer.

Recent blog posts

Drush: An Expert's Technique

Posted on Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 07:34

Chances are you know that drush is a command line utility for Drupal that allows site administrators to interface with the site directly from the command line shell. It contains simple commands such as drush st , which simply print the status report More...

A Drupal Safari in London

Posted on Monday, May 23, 2011 - 10:07

As those that attended my last talk at DrupalCon know, I (and others before me) intend to change the way sessions are presented. In Chicago, I let the audience pelt me with 100s of Nerf Darts to describe the concepts of caching. Armed with a large More...

Shoot the Drupalist

Posted on Saturday, January 15, 2011 - 22:49

When I submitted my session for DrupalCon Chicago, I wanted to present something that was of a heightened necessity to the community. Working everyday to support some of the most world-class customers in the Drupal space gives you an incredible More...

Creating Successful Support Engagements

Posted on Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 06:11

It’s 4:00 AM, local time. You’ve been awoken by the angry sound of your iPhone’s SMS notification to tell you that the website you manage is totally offline. You’ve got a worldwide business and being operational 24/7 is critical. You call your More...

The Lifestyle of Drupal Support

Posted on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 08:53

When people hear the word support, it often drums up images of overcrowded call centers in a faraway land staffed by the lowest bidder and a digitized voice that tells you how important your call is to them. So important, in fact, that it will be More...

Acquia seems to understand the current trend to push this ... into the cloud at large.

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