Spokeo

Spokeo is a people search engine that makes the world more transparent with data. With over 14 billion records and 15 million visitors per month, we reconnect friends, reunite families, prevent fraud, and more.

Principal UX Writer

Laskie (acquired by Twitter)

Laskie is a job matchmaking platform that makes getting a tech job as easy as a dating app. Laskie was acquired by X/Twitter in 2023. 

$6M in funding from Bloomberg Beta, Peak State Ventures, AngelList Venture, Fourth Realm, Adapt Ventures, and more.

• Designed end-to-end user onboarding, messaging system, and flows to increase speed, conversion, and retention by 300-500%
• Partnered with engineering to build proprietary job matchmaking system (taxonomy, ontology, process) to make getting a job like a dating app
• Created product marketing materials: designed the Reverse Apply product to have jobs apply to people

Product/Content Lead

Cluster

Cluster is a vertical job marketplace that matches hardware and electrical engineers to companies like SpaceX and Tesla. Funded by Mark Cuban, ECMC Group, Dan Rosensweig (Chegg), Frank Britt (Penn Foster), Mark Pincus (Zynga), and Richard Sarnoff (KKR).

• Created unique values assessment tool and matching system to allow people to match to companies based on shared values
• Designed novel SMS onboarding process to 10x user engagement via text messages instead of in-app experiences
• Researched and pivoted company strategy to laser-focus on 3 core industries instead of 30 broader ones, leading to 5x increase in user engagement and successful user experiences

Product Operations Lead

Indeed.com

Indeed is the world’s largest job site, with over 300M unique visitors per month.

• Built Indeed Assessments, the largest assessments platform in the world (1B+ assessments completed per year)
• Designed and wrote end-to-end automated phone screen tool (5M+ completed per year)
• Designed assessments system, form factor, conducted market research and competitor intel to design unique product with product-market fit
• Designed quantified roadmap, proprietary method of calculating ROI of each assessment based on location, industry, and job title

Associate Principal Content Designer

Interviewed (acquired by Indeed.com)

Interviewed was a Y Combinator-backed assessments startup that we scaled quickly and was acquired by Indeed in 2017.

• Designed initial assessments library based on user research to quickly scale product from 10 to 1,000 customers
• Partnered with transition team at Indeed to redesign assessments form factor to prepare for successful acquisition and product merger
• Led content transition team efforts to ensure successful migration after acquisition by Indeed

Assessments Content Manager / Content Team Lead

Collegiate School

Collegiate is a top boys’ K-12 private school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

• Designed new K-12 STEM curriculum (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) for top private school in NYC
• Researched cutting-edge educational and technological methods to make learning more engaging for students
• Produced and co-founded TEDxNYED, the first TEDx education conference in New York City featuring major speakers from USC, Columbia, and NYU

Technologist & STEM Faculty

Big Think

Co-created top-15 iTunes podcast “Think Again” with Jason Gots. Wrote various articles on politics, voting systems, and social issues for Big Think’s website.

Writer / Top-15 iTunes Podcast Co-Creator

The Thursday Problem

Wrote, directed, and/or produced over 20 plays in NYC. Wrote and directed a short film, “Cold Fusion.”

Playwright / Producer / Filmmaker

Round Seven Media

Co-founded film production company in NYC. Produced 4 short films which screened at festivals.

Co-Founder & Film Producer

The Center for Election Science

The Center for Election Science is the US’s pre-eminent voting reform organization, studying and advocating for better voting systems.

• Designed brand strategy for a pre-eminent voting reform organization, leading to 10x number of donors, increased engagement, and new chapters around the US
• Produced and presented events and talks such as The History of Voting Systems, featuring esteemed political scientists from NYU and UPenn
• Produced first video on “What Is Approval Voting”, leading to 295K+ views on YouTube

Director

Web2 is broken. I can help you fix it. 

Hi, I'm Eric! I make things that work, and I make things work. 

I’m a results-driven, highly-strategic, multidimensional Content Designer, UX Writer, and Digital Experience Strategist with 15+ years of experience. I built the content design system at Indeed that allowed us to quickly scale to become the largest assessments platform in the world (1B+ completed per year, $80M in revenue). 

I’m equally adept at building new experiences and fixing broken ones. I’ve helped build 3 successful startups (Interviewed was acquired by Indeed, Laskie was acquired by X), produced talks, videos, and conferences on technology, education, and voting systems (TEDxNYED, Left Forum, The Center for Election Science), created a top-15 iTunes podcast (Think Again for Big Think), and founded the STEM program at a top prep school in NYC (Collegiate). I've designed sports statistics, betting systems, and voting system algorithms since I was a kid. I've written multiple plays and films and associate-produced Broadway shows.

With my hybrid enterprise/startup/education/data/creative mentality, I thrive on cross-functional, multidisciplinary teams, and I can also roll up my sleeves and work alone to ship things. I write and design end-to-end flows, messaging systems, and product copy that maximizes conversion. I’m an expert in designing and running tests.

My expertise working alongside stakeholders includes: content design, UX writing, design systems, digital marketing, content strategy, product operations, mobile design, user research, A/B testing, QA, automation, user onboarding and education, project management, legal compliance, and accessibility.

Growth = UX + Content + Product + Data

esandmanLA@gmail.com

Eric Sanders

I'm a server and infrastructure guy with a penchant for the big picture and a lifelong love of technology.

I'm not looking for new opportunities at this time.

Ask me about my homelab, and ignore the huge backlog of projects. I've redone my home networks for the end of my Meraki licenses, then switched back. I've worked in networking and storage although it's been a little while. I have never been a developer. I've never waited tables (even database tables) but respect those who do. I admit what I don't know and learn quickly. 

Today I'm an engineering product manager for UCS networking in the compute business at Cisco. 

From 2022-2023 I was product line manager for software management products at Supermicro. 

From 2018-2020 I focused on channel partner enablement, partner sales engineering, solutions engineering at Cisco. 

From 2014-2018 I played storyteller/matchmaker between big data ISVs, Cisco channel partners and internal sales teams, and occasionally a customer or 100. I've been doing big data since late 2003/early 2004 (really) and Hadoop since probably 2008 (CDH1). I presented at partner events and public conferences including Strata+Hadoop World (2x) and Cisco Live (4x, Distinguished Speaker). 

On the first day at Cisco (right after lunch), I pushed a half million dollar deal over the edge with my personal experience outweighing a competitor's positioning. From then on, I brought context and proportion to challenging situations, helping our customers succeed and our sales teams make money. I believe those two should not be mutually exclusive, and I consider it my mission to bring them together wherever I work. 

Before Cisco, I was a senior level Silicon Valley systems operations professional with nearly 20 years (different years, even) of production UNIX system administration in multiple varieties of UNIX (Solaris, Linux, BSD) as well as experience in other desktop and server platforms. I built a proven history of delivering enterprise class scalable server, network, and DR/BC environments within stringent budget and time restraints.

I blog at rsts11.com and rsts11travel.com. 

Specialties: Big data platforms, hardware, and education; system administration, hardware planning and management (even clouds need hardware), Hadoop, written English (documentation is our friend), UNIX-based email systems, coffee preparation & procurement, operations team building and sustaining. 

I'm not a developer or coder although I can read or tweak some code. I don't have an MBA or a PhD. 

I'm not looking for new opportunities at this time.

Robert Novak

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Six months ago I brought up a Proxmox VE cluster on my Lenovo P360 Ultra stack (see comments for my "banana for scale" equivalent). I did this on the dining room table, so I had to take it down, and it's been waiting for some shelf space. 

The first generation used a $36 ZTYUAV 2.5/10G switch (now $28, https://amzn.to/3LLBWBS) and the onboard 2.5gbe ports on the P360s. 

I upgraded the quad gigabit Ethernet cards to Lenovo 10GBase-T cards and got a small low power 10GBase-T switch from Woot (Zyxel XGS1250-12, currently $180 on Amazon, https://amzn.to/4aWf8tv). 

I'm planning to bring the 10G platform up, upgrade (or fresh install) to VE9, possibly add some more internal storage for Ceph, and do some testing and recording. 

Then it's time to install the ConnectX-4 cards (https://ebay.us/vNnoJR, under $40, with some $20ish 10GTek cables for a loop network) and see what it feels like on higher speeds. 

Hoping to get a video series next month and a blog post or two around the same time. Then maybe I'll find some enterprise grade gear to warm up. 

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