Sören Schmidt is a Project Manager at eXo Platform where he is responsible for Swiss customers. eXo Platform provides open-source collaborative solution based on JavaEE and many associated standards (JSR-286, JSR-170, Open Social, ...). Sören has joined eXo Platform in January 2009. His current areas of focus are Enterprise 2.0 Portals, Content & Document Management, Web Content Management and Enterprise Social Networks.

Before working for eXo Platform, Sören was a project manager for Software AG, where he worked with the XML based database Tamino, XSL, XSLT, JavaEE, Struts and Search Engines. Then from end of 2004 to the end of 2008 he co-founded and managed h2guide, a company which provided geographically based information and photos using PostgreSQL, PostGis, and MapServer.