Andrew started building online communities using open platforms during the 2004 US Presidential campaign, helped to support the early Drupal consulting services community as Business Strategy Director for the CivicSpace Labs project from 2004-2005. Later, as co-founder of Goodstorm, he invested in the buildout of Drupal's ecommerce capabilities, and, as co-founder of the CoLab project at NASA, in a Drupal-based Conference Organizing solution.

Now, as the first ever CIO of the NY State Senate, he uses Drupal on http://NYSenate.gov to open up the Senate's legislative and administrative data for public access (Transparency), overhaul the Senate's communications and collaboration infrastructure (Efficiency), and launch new "Government 2.0" initiatives (Public Participation).