Oswco: The Open SoftWare Company

Tom Brander, a.k.a. @Dartdog on Twitter, provides Real Estate Reporting services to banks, realty companies and developers. He is on the Trustee Board of the Alabama Center for Real Estate at the University of Alabama where he also provides consulting services. He creates the following blogs, primarily on Wordpress.com,: http://tbrander.wordpress.com (real estate), http://tombrander.wordpress.com (technical and personal), http://tbrander.appspot.com (computer forensics, hosted on Google App-engine), and http://oswco.com (open source software company, a new venture).

He has helped others develop their own Blogs, for instance, http://teewinot7.wordpress.com/ (a specialty site for Australian Shepard dogs) and http://uakd.wordpress.com/ (a college sorority site) And http://bigcityblink.wordpress.com/ (a personal site).

With the exception of the oswco.com site all of the above sites are hosted on totally free services.

Tom spent 8 years with the Honeywell computer division in sales and tech support on the Metropolitan Life and Bell Labs accounts. He was with Citibank for 10 years, and for another 10 years, he headed up the Information Systems and Communications groups for Compass Bank (now BBVA). He has also served as the Chief Financial Officer for several Birmingham based healthcare related companies.

Most recently, he is starting a company to bring open source computing to the corporate community and the financial industry in particular, OSWCO, The Open SoftWare Company.

Ken Lefner - Sales and Marketing Consultant

Ken Lefner has been in the banking services industry for many years. He has worked for many different financial companies from host provider, branch automation, internet banking and CRM /BI Software services. Over the years, Ken has helped thousands of bankers with deploying new technology in their financial institutions. Many of the first users in PC banking worked with Ken to roll out PC Hardware, Networks and the best software solutions in the industry at that time. Today, Ken is still working to solve many of the operational issues his clients have with simple and cost effective solutions that are available in the ever changing financial market place.