It’s never too early to mark your calendar for Emerald City Comicon, coming up in late March/early April 2012 — one of the landmark events on the Seattle geek’s annual calendar. Our latest Geek of the Week, Jim Demonakos, is not only the convention director, but he also founded a chain of comic book stores and… Read More…
Laura Massey is big into games, to say the least. She’s a software engineer for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video game console, part of a team working on top-secret stuff for the Redmond software company. And in her spare time she created the automated — and highly addictive, as we can attest — NerdTrivia game on… Read More…
Back in the 1990s, Braden Moulton scripted a website to display his resume as if it were the opening text sequence of the Star Wars movies. Of course, it got him the job at Microsoft. Today, he’s living his longtime dream of working in the video-game industry, as business development director for RealNetworks’ GameHouse division,… Read More…
Don’t be surprised to see Lisa Weeks show up at work in a colorful wig, or walk into a convention center wielding a gigantic sword. Our latest Geek of the Week is steeped in the world of cosplay (that’s short “costume play,” for the uninitiated), having made more than 40 costumes over the past decade. As… Read More…
Our latest Geek of the Week, Sendi Widjaja, is the CTO at lawyer and doctor ratings site Avvo. He has seen his share of fights in his day — from the streets of Jakarta to the battlefields of World of Warcraft. He’s survived them all, and he has some great stories to tell as a… Read More…
Kelly Franznick is the type of person who can spend his vacation working on a stop-motion animation projects, and his spare time hanging out in a used computer store. In other words, as we celebrate Geek Pride Day, he’s the perfect person to feature as our latest Geek of the Week. Continue reading for his… Read More…
Arianna O’Dell, GeekWire’s latest Geek of the Week, has an infectious entrepreneurial spirit, a mind for marketing, and a million startup ideas. Not to mention a pretty impressive collection of shirts. Continue reading for pictures of those, and for her answers to our Geek of the Week questionnaire. Name: Arianna O’Dell Job, hobby and/or other geeky… Read More…
Hey, if a person can geek out on SharePoint, you know he’s a true geek. GeekWire’s latest Geek of the Week, Jeff Shuey, focuses on Microsoft’s business collaboration and portal technology in his work as a business development director for Kodak stationed in the Seattle region. Continue reading for his answers to our questionnaire —… Read More…
Our latest Geek of the Week, Joseph Sunga, is one of those crazy people who gave up a rare sunny weekend in Seattle a few days ago to participate in Startup Weekend — so right there you know he’s a geek, through and through. But that’s just the start. In his spare time, the… Read More…
Anyone who thinks technical chops and fashion sense are incompatible needs to meet our latest Geek of the Week, Kate Matsudaira, vice president of engineering for SEOmoz, the Seattle-based search-engine optimization software company. When not overseeing the company’s engineering or hunting for new hires, she’s dreaming up new ideas that mix fashion and tech. She… Read More…
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