We make a point of keeping our clients needs as top priority during every step of the process.
About Us
Goals
One of the major goals of Alethia is, and always has been, to help the spread of Drupal and open source software. We organize training sessions, promote Drupal based meetings, and show the web population here just how cool this open source stuff really is.
Mission
Our mission for Alethia involves more than just being a typical web development company. Our mission is to become a company that provides open source software solutions that not only change people’s lives, but also change the way people use the Internet. Those who are involved in Alethia are not only ambitious, but also passionate toward a common aligned vision of our potential to achieve our goals.
Development Style
Development Style
At Alethia we knew we wanted to use a type of Agile development that we could show to our clients to help them to fully understand the timetable of the project, where it’s going, what we’ve completed, and what we’re working on at any given time. We like to keep it simple and clean with no muddily worded tech documents.
We love to hear from our clients during the production phase of a project, call us, or connect with us up on Skype. If you see something you want to tweak out or improve upon as the project progresses we are here to help make your project a success. We’re also very personable, so during long nights of development time in front of our computers it’s sometimes nice to just have a friendly chat! (No politics please :=) )
Founders
Darshaun Nadeau | CEO
Actively involved in the international domain community. He also sits on the board of the Domain Name Business Association in Japan and previously held the vice-board position on the Japan Internet Providers Association. He is one of the first non-Japanese to be integrally involved in the Japanese domain space, and among the early pioneers of the Japanese domain market in general.
Darshaun majored in Japanese language studies at San Francisco State University and also completed 2 years of Japanese language studies in Japan at Tokyo International University and Kyoto University of Foreign Studies.
Darshaun founded Solis in 2001, which became both ICANN and JPRS accredited. His company became a certified JPNIC member in 1999, then was closely involved at the time of the JPNIC/JPRS transition in 2001. Solis was later acquired by Japan's largest domain and hosting company, GMO Internet in 2005. He founded WIXI, Inc. in 2009, the first bilingual secondary domain market site in Japan. Later to launch the first domain parking platform in Japan.
Darshaun has been integrally involved in Internet related business software development for over 10 years in Japan.
Shaun Ward | COO
Shaun graduated with a major in Economics and a minor in East Asian Languages and Culture from the University of Kansas in 2005. For a part of his time at KU, he also attended the study abroad at KCP International Language Institute in Tokyo.
After returning to Japan, Shaun started his first web development shop, Crystalkoi Design, in 2006, concentrating on open source e-commerce using Zen-Cart. During this time he created the first Zen-Cart UTF-8 language pack and popular UTF-8 conversion guide for Zen-Cart.
In 2009 Shaun co-founded Alethia with the initial title of CEO, in charge of client interactions, project management, and internal management. During this time Shaun started to get heavily involved in the Drupal open source community, becoming one of the Japanese language administrators and working with Drupal CMS e-commerce solutions. He now takes on the title of COO, and continues to carry out many of the same management roles and responsibilities.
Shaun is continually pressing for the progression of Drupal and Drupal e-commerce solutions for the Japanese market leveraging Ubercart and Drupal Commerce. He and Alethia launched the first complete Japanese Drupal 6 Ubercart site to the Japanese market in 2010. Also in 2010 Alethia launched the open source online media project, Mediafront, where Shaun is currently helping in as the general director.
oth ICANN and JPRS accredited. His company became a certified JPNIC member in 1999, then was closely involved at the time of the JPNIC/JPRS transition in 2001. Solis was later acquired by Japan's largest domain and hosting company, GMO Internet in 2005. He founded WIXI, Inc. in 2009, the first bilingual secondary domain market site in Japan. Later to launch the first domain parking platform in Japan.
