Manuel has worked with and developed for Plone for eight years. In addition to building up a solid knowledge of the Plone code base he is experienced in integrating with external systems like Solr and LDAP. He has used Solr in various contexts like university web sites, company intranets or content based web applications and for various purposes like full text search (including cross-site search) or catalog replacement. He works for Syslab.com who are a founding partner of Quaive, a social intranet collaboration solution based on Plone.