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Nick Bostic

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I am the Director of Marketing & Technology, Associate VP for a national title insurance and escrow company.

Although I am relatively new to this industry, I have a lifetime of technology experience.

I assembled my first computer over 10 years ago. I can now go from a pile of components to installing Windows in less than 30 minutes.

I have done professional web development for over 10 years. By professional, I don’t mean I’m your nephew and I “designed” a page that did nothing for you, had terrible background images and blinky text and was a waste of your time and money. I’m talking shopping carts, revenue, search engine rankings.

I am a beta tester for Google, Microsoft, Adobe amongst a variety of smaller companies many haven’t heard of (yet).

I created and promoted a web site that had no real content about underwater photography that within 10 days of the site going live, was #1 in Google searches for “underwater photography”. Then I pulled the site, since it was just an experiment.

I was a manager for a very large telecom company and know all about BlackBerry’s, Treo’s, Windows Mobile devices and wireless internet.

My degree is in Marketing, Management and Finance with minors in computer networking and database administration.

I almost failed Computer Science 101 because I corrected the instructor too many times.

I am an amateur photographer working on becoming a professional one.

I am a SCUBA instructor.

I am your target demographic.

My Comments

  • Oops, sorry, I just noticed
    By March 6, 2009 - 10:02am

    Oops, sorry, I just noticed this was the LA version of Curbed. Yes, Californians, it rains here endlessly :)

  • I love it when New Yorkers
    By March 6, 2009 - 10:00am

    I love it when New Yorkers (hi sis) pretend to know more about Portland than Portlanders... Here's the perfect answer to BusinessWeek's load of BS: http://www.blueoregon.com/2009/03/no-business-week-portland-is-not-the-most-unhappy-city-in-america.html For those that don't want to read the whole thing, here are some of the key points: * "The depression rate is based on drug company data on antidepressant sales. In other words, Portlanders may not be more depressed than anyone else - we've just got more people who are getting medical attention for their illness. Which probably means that they're less unhappy." * Portland is the #1 greenest city in America, with top ten rankings in air quality, water quality, green building, local agriculture, and more. * Utne Reader ranked Portland as the #2 most enlightened city in the nation. * #1 for pedestrian friendliness, #4 for public safety, #5 for our underground arts scene, #6 for "friendly", #8 for "fun", #9 for dining, #10 for theatre, #12 for live music, etc. * Outside Magazine called Portland one of the "new American dream towns" * Fast Company called Portland one of fifteen fast cities - "places that draw people who are talented, tech savvy, and tolerant." * Portland is so green and creative and happy because our city was built on the site of an ancient unicorn burial ground. I'm happy to call Portland home.

  • @nbostic naturally!
    By July 17, 2008 - 12:48pm

    @nbostic naturally!

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