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Graham Brookins

Graham Brookins is the successful certified eZ Publish Developer and founder of Brookins Consulting (a leading eZ Partner in North America), kracker.org (think tank), 7x (North American Corporation; Formerly BC), Tetra Web Systems (North American + African Corporation) to name a few.

Graham offers value-added web application development and support, empowering local customers with web applications powered by php and eZ Publish. Graham has a strong focus on request fulfillment, best practices and continuous improvement. He was nominated for Two eZ awards in 2007.

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Graham started businesses as a child. Graham was always an entrepreneur first as well as an expert worker of all things in life especially electrical equipment. Graham started mowing lawns and shoveling driveways as a business ABC (Aimee Brookins Company; I was the BC part of the partnership). Graham registered the business license name Encom a company in Alaska in his teens to pursue computer business ventures. Graham later registered Brookins Consulting to provide Computer support and technical consulting while building next generation level web application systems for use with dynamic web based browser applications (building dynamic cms based web software platforms). As eZ Systems (Norwegian company and author of eZ Publish) announced in 2014 what was a surprise to the business community the end of life of eZ Publish and the transition to a new feature incompatible solution called eZ Platform a full replacement which required a full rewrite to support it's use instead of the classic stable and free eZ Publish GPL Stack. This prompted BC to register se7enx.com as a future name for the company to use to fork the CMS software stack and company / community resources under which would be even more successful and prepared to transition the business name Brookins Consulting to 7x. This rebranding was started in 2018 when the end of life was again reconfirmed for eZ Publish and many wondered the future of eZ Platform GPL when the company began to remove resources from the internet for eZ Publish.

7x quickly began preparations to fork the project starting with updating all code from Brookins Consulting era to run on more modern versions of PHP + eZ Publish 5 (Legacy Only), while forking -every- possible resource needed to support the fork, this included thousands of GitHub, GitLab and beyond repositories of related software source code. Today 7x is the leading provider for Exponential CMS Family of CMS(s) with goals to continue to grow the platforms to new levels of ease of use for normal people world wide via the internet.

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