Sam is a graduate of the infamous University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Computer Science program, which has produced several other notable Plone contributors.

He is the author and maintainer of several Plone add-ons (uwosh.snippets, plone.app.workflowmanager) and was instrumental in the deployment of over 350 Plone sites at the UW Oshkosh campus.

Sam has been working at Wildcard Corp. since 2015 where he has become the lead developer for Castle CMS, the enhanced distribution of Plone that makes large scale content management even easier and more powerful. He participated in the 2016 Barcelona strategic sprint, part of the initiative moving Plone into the modern JavaScript world.