Less Talk, More Do

I am a design engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, working with the Theme Team to address the design concerns of millions of WordPress users.

• August 16th, 2009

  New Job

  Three years ago, I blogged about a new resume-hosting site called Emurse.com that got me an interview (and a job) at AOL-owned Netscape. Well, things have a funny way of working out, and after leaving AOL to work with an incredible development team at Mahalo, I’ve left Mahalo to lead development of now AOL-owned Emurse. [...]

• October 25th, 2006

  Dethroned

  Well, I had a good run, but kudos to you, Loic Hay, for unseating my resume from the top of the Emurse popularity heap. Given another few days, my wife might have taken care of this anyway.

• August 1st, 2006

  Spellin’ It Out

  Actual transcript of one side of a phonecall I just received: “So, Chris, I heard you got a new job! Congratulations! Say, my son is looking for a job, and Sally said that you used some resume website. Do you have the name of that site?… murse.com?… dmerse?… d?… Immerse.com? Oh, e… m… …as in [...]

• July 27th, 2006

  Why not?

  Sixteen days ago, I read a blurb about a new resume hosting site called emurse.com. Being the early adopter that I am (except when adopting a blog, apparently), I signed up to make sure that I could get my preferred username; there are a lot of C. Finkes out there vying for the obvious six-character [...]