Current Employment

Since October 2007, I have been employed by Yahoo! Inc as a "Technical Yahoo!" in the Yahoo! Search Marketing group. My team works on the Ad Optimization systems including advertiser bid optimization and keyword research.

Previous Employment

Citysearch

From January 2003 until October 2007, I was employed by Citysearch as a software engineer, eventually leading becoming part of the Platform Services team and then leading an "Architecture and Standards" team for a short time.

Standard Media

From February 1997 through June 2002, I worked as a programmer/administrator for Standard Media. It was fun while it lasted, but the time came for Jessica and I to move away from the Bay Area.

Here's some of the stuff in which I had a hand or two:

• FAT ONLINE- Fat Wreck Chords, a Bay Area record label that sells pop-punk records to 14-year-old boys.
• Alternative Tentacles Records- yet another Bay Area label that carries the old Dead Kennedys stuff along with a huge variety of other stuff, including a bit of Negativland and spoken word by Noam Chomsky and Mumia Abu Jamal.
• 11345 Records- independent record label and distributor. Releases punk, etc. records and distributes a wide variety of punk and "nerd rock" records and merchandise (check out the killer Devo hairpieces and flower-pot hats).
• Amoeba Records- independent record store that carries almost everything under the sun. Originally a Bay Area thing, with stores in Berkeley and San Francisco, they recently opened a new store in Hollywood (widely believed to be one of the best in the area, only a short while after opening).
• Mordam Records- Mordam is the exclusive distributor for over 30 independent record labels and magazines. in addition to having their entire catalog of 3000 or so "indie" artists available for mail order online, they also have most of the CD portion of their catalog digitized and available for purchase via digital download in MP3 format (with possibly more formats to come later).
• Cinder Block- vendors of fine punk rock apparel, including the revered Op Ivy hooded sweatshirt.
• Lookout! Records- another Bay Area label that carries the old Operation Ivy stuff along with other more-or-less mainstream punk/ska/etc. stuff.
• TKO Records

About the Title of This Page

The quotation used as the title of this page "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." is attributed to Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915). I haven't been able to find a reference as to where it was first published.