Hans Zaunere is President and Founder, New York PHP. He is also a central figure in New York's technical landscape, having co-founded New York's BSD group, and co-organized technical events and PHP conferences.
Since the early 1990's, Mr. Zaunere has maintained leadership roles in mission critical, classified, and cutting-edge technical environments. As a fulltime analyst for NYU Medical, and a network security administrator prior to that, Mr. Zaunere proved the business case of open source by developing reliable and effective systems that integrated with commercial technology.
Having moved to MySQL, Inc., Mr. Zaunere worked as a senior consultant and sales engineer, providing mission critical strategic and architectural guidance for Fortune 500 companies across North America, Europe and Asia.
Today Mr. Zaunere operates New York PHP and New York PHP Community fulltime, supporting the "business community" by uniting dot-com with dot-org and managing a team of technology professionals. Under Mr. Zaunere's leadership, New York PHP develops and supports critical systems for the financial, medical, and military spaces. New York PHP Community continues as the largest PHP group, thanks to the involvement of thousands worldwide, and a timeline and who's who of the PHP and open source community.