Matt Shobe
(I should've worn a nicer shirt.)
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- @GrahamJenkin Try to make me to go DH, I say, no, no…no.
- @steveobd I think our turnaround was the hill at the top of this set of stairs? http://t.co/QlJYI1JZ
- @ario Thanks! Looking forward to it.
- @steveobd couldn't agree more. I'd add nyc to your faves list - either Central Park or paths south of Chelsea Piers.
- "The mobile-app programming models are better than the rococo pandemonium of DOM and JS and CSS and friends." http://t.co/vAQusUI4May 15, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Lotta good stuff in the ol' techmeme right now. Check it out. http://t.co/YKzbusi0
- @sippey That's a perfect Fountains of Wayne album title.
- @calbucci I wonder if somebody already built a layer on top of Earth to coordinate crowdsearching.
- Fire up Earth and start looking! Can the newly-found WWII fighter plane in the Sahara be seen on Google Maps? http://t.co/ah9V0NyV on @Quora
- @whoischrislam indeed.
- Class outside today. http://t.co/Q6ogMHM1
- I'd love to see edu that combines value of networking on campus w/ efficiency of online. @mcuban says this: http://t.co/tvbwy58T
- "Shazbot. Nanu-nanu." #nightprowler #acdc
- I'm at CenturyLink Field for Real Salt Lake vs. Seattle Sounders FC (Seattle, WA) w/ 186 others http://t.co/3itHVH9u
- Love this painting; saw it at Zeitgeist. Artist name is Molly Magai. http://t.co/HnZy9KwS
- Agree that these probably are the 10 Worst Cars Ever: "…the 4.3 diesel made 90 hp before shattering into shrapnel." http://t.co/RbMS8F9d
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Status
- 2012 Horrible Dinnertime Pun Nominee: "There must always be a starch in Winterfell."
- Winter is coming.
- Give us our hour back. #occupyDST
- Parenting pro-tip: Sometimes, you must let the Wookiee win.
- Thank you, CBS, for tape-delaying the Grammys for the west coast. Les Moonves: "No such thing as social media. Nope, never happened." What is this, 1983?
- Chili *and* king crab legs? No pairing logic is sacred – not today, this Day of Days. It's gonna happen.
- Just learned I have 365,000 lifetime miles on United Airlines. I've probably earned another 150,000 on other carriers combined since 1992, so let's call it an even half million as a working stiff. I believe this still leaves me a mere 2.5 million shy of getting a plane named after me on that carrier. (Presumably that'd be one of those burned-out fire and rescue training shells, as they save the coveted commemorative airframes for the Ryan Binghams of the world.)
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- SummaryI've spent the balance of my professional life in the entrepreneurial, small company trenches, but stints in large company environments have helped frame and broaden my experience and problem-tackling approach. More to come...Experience
- Feb 2011 - PresentChief Design Officer / BigDoor Media, Inc.Once more unto the breach, dear Publishers, once more; Or close up the blog with our comment thread.
- Jun 2007 - Feb 2011Staff User Experience Designer / GoogleI assumed the role of user experience designer within Google, spearheading various efforts to incorporate the key parts of FeedBurner into the overall publisher product mix. I also worked on all of the major advertising tools for publishers (AdSense and Google DFP), Google Apps Enterprise Marketplace, +1, and video and voice chat tools.
- Feb 2004 - May 2007Co-Founder / FeedBurnerfrom my FeedBurner "About" Page entry: (Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer) Credited as the original "voice of FeedBurner," Matt also maintains an unwavering devotion to the FeedBurner fan club. If publishers and advertisers want it, his team brandishes the t-squares and slide rules required to make it happen.
- Nov 1998 - May 2004Principal / Burning Door LLCBurning Door was myself and three other colleagues who've created, nurtured (and in some cases, survived) various Internet startups in Chicago. We did webapp design and architecture consulting as BD in between our startup drives.
- Nov 1998 - Jul 2003Co-Founder / Spyonit.comSpyonit was a web service offering a catalog of alerts to the general public, covering everything from eBay auctions to breaking business and news headlines to a “Vanity Spy,” which could tell you when your name appeared anew at the major search engines. Named one of the "Top 50 Most Useful Sites" on the web by Yahoo! Magazine, July 2000 and acquiring a base of over 100,000 users, Spyonit was acquired by 724 Solutions in September 2000. As one of four founding Spyonit partners, I was responsible for: • Conceiving and implementing the site’s interaction and visual design • Communicating with end users daily to seek improvement feedback for every aspect of the service • Collaborating with customers and Spyonit enthusiasts to define web-based tools to extend Spyonit’s alerting capabilities My efforts directly contributed to our acquisition and realized bankable ROI for our angel investor corps in less than one year.
- 1993 - 1994Usability Specialist / Andersen ConsultingBrought what I learned about usability at Microsoft to a new team within Andersen that was attempting radically rethink how the firm built its solutions from a much more modular and reusable process and architecture. This rethink included much more focus on user experience; the best part was that I met my co-founders for three startups to follow among the like minds there.
- May 1993 - Aug 1993Usability Specialist Intern / MicrosoftRan usability evaluations (and learned my way around a corporate usability lab, video editing, and concise, daresay "punchy" report writing) on very early Windows95 prototypes and on the PageMaker-for-everyone-else of its time, Publisher 2.0. Cultivated an obsession for white cheese pizza and Talking Rain.
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1994 - 1996University of WashingtonM.S. in Human Centered Design & Engineering
Activities: Society for Technical Communication, Research Assistant -
1988 - 1993Purdue UniversityB.A. in English, Economics
Activities: Phi Kappa Theta, Krannert School of Management Internship Program, Computer Science Teaching Assistant (CS110)
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