About Me
I grew up in Oklahoma, and along with everyone here am slightly atypical from what you might expect. I've ridden my share of horses, actually corralled cattle, and have helped build one of the most innovative tech companies in Oklahoma. One of the only tech companies in Oklahoma.
I have a borderline obsession with Ancient History and have loved Star Wars as long as I can remember. I read whenever I can, listen to audio books when I can't. A good movie is great, a bad movie with friends can be even better. And in whatever free time I get - I write.
Position:
SVP
Favorite Projects:
Every ONEsite community is so distinctive and unique. There is something incredible about the way each has grown and evolved after it first launch. And part of that comes from the people we work with - with every client we get to work with an incredibly talented group of people. Those independent ideas, thoughts, strategies, and suggestions have driven the platform to be the best in the market. So every project is my favorite - Clear Channel, Univision, BowlSpace. Their communities and the different things each has done with them has been incredible.
Favorite Experience:
I got a call once from someone at Z100 - because Rihanna desperately needed help setting up her page.
Hobbies:
Intelligent conversation, reasonable people, and a group of close friends. The occasional game of Heroscape and whatever video game playing I can get in. You could probably build a pretty good Thad replicant if you got the combination of Ancient History + Science Fiction + Awesome + Dinosaurs + 80's Cartoons + More Awesome + Genius - some ego + some delusions of grandeur + whatever my MBA professors have done to my poor brain. I think that I came out relatively well.
Among the random things I got this Christmas (and I tend to get an assortment of random things) was this:
Star Wars Saga Edition Mission Lightsaber Battle Game
Now, for those of you who do not know me all that well, you may be thinking, why does an almost 24 year old MBA student get a lightsaber game for Christmas that is meant for 8-12 year olds. You may be shocked, stunned, and appalled.
Of course, those of you all who have known me for a while (and most of you think the same way) are sitting there thinking out loud, "you waiting a week to get it out?"
So yes, I opened my lightsaber battle game, threw in some batteries, and proceeded to unleash total warfare on the less than 3d characters in the game (it was a little better than what you might find on a SNES). But, it all worked surprisingly well, much better than I thought, was pretty fun and gave a cardio workout similiar to DDR (played on a pad of course).
So, in a somewhat stroke of insanity me and Elichia decided to go out Downtown for New Years. Had a nice dinner, walked around are random canal and the myriad gardens and all that jazz. Went and listened to a couple bands playing where they had the opening night stuff set up. And we left, because it was altogether underwhelming.
But one thing really bothered me about everything we saw, it certainly was not the presence of corporate sponsorship, that is a given, and it wasn't that all the corporate sponsors were innevitably energy companies, that was a given too, but the fact that the sponsorship was so thrown in everybody's face to border on being distasteful.
I did not mind that there were christmas lights that said happy holidays from whatever company, I really didn't mind that there was a big banner saying who every sponsor was...what bothered me was the lightshows.
They had all these lights set up to dance on the buildings, it was actually a pretty cool effect...except that every other image was some cool light effect...the others were the logo of an oil company - dancing as big a a car on the side of a building. Anyway, not particularly disgusted, I know that money was not going to come from anywhere else, but they could have shown some restraint on the presentation.
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