Edward Vielmetti

Current

Chief Economist at Pure Visibility
Research Associate, School of Information at University of Michigan
Technology Advisory Board Member at Ann Arbor District Library

Executive Director at Cisco Alumni Association (Self-employed)
Owner at The Vacuum Group LLC (Sole Proprietorship)

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Past

Director of Social Media at Pure Visibility
Founder, VP Customer Service at Socialtext
Consultant and Technical Marketing Manager at Arbor Networks

Consulting Engineer, Office of the CTO at Cisco Systems
Assistant Director of Reserch at First Virtual Holdings
Founder, VP Research at MSEN
Systems Administrator at OTA Limited Partnership
Systems Research Programmer at University of Michigan

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Education

University of Michigan
Northern Michigan University
Marquette Senior High School

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Edward Vielmetti’s Summary

I speak the language of Main Street, Ann Arbor USA.

Edward Vielmetti’s Specialties:

search engine marketing, information economics, network analysis, options pricing, systems management, traffic analysis, supply chain analysis, product marketing, technical marketing, distributed systems, massively parallel systems, regional economic development, regional competitive advantage, measurement, analysis of variance, improvement

Edward Vielmetti’s Experience

Chief Economist

Pure Visibility

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 2008 — Present (7 months)

Edward M. Vielmetti is the Chief Economist at Pure Visibility. He started in November 2006 as a full time employee and has been involved in many aspects of the company, including Google Adwords campaign management, Google Analytics, social media, corporate strategy, process engineering and recruiting.
Research Associate, School of Information

University of Michigan

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; GOBLUE; Research industry)

March 2006 — Present (2 years 5 months)

I am a Research Associate for the Community Information Corps at the University of Michigan School of Information.

The University of Michigan School of Information has been a leader in ensuring that innovations in information science and technology are brought to bear in service of the public good. The Community Information Corps (CIC) is at the heart of that effort. CIC serves as focal point for students, faculty, alumni and community members from across disciplines to explore the changing role of information and technology in civil society.

From March to December 2006 I also served as Program Manager for this Kellogg Foundation funded project.

At present I have no active research projects underway, but I continue to work with students in the Community Informatics curriculum at SI, and assist the school in recruiting external speakers for their speaker series and in connecting students in the concentration to the community.

See more details at http://cic.si.umich.edu
Technology Advisory Board Member

Ann Arbor District Library

(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Libraries industry)

May 2005 — Present (3 years 3 months)

Provide feedback on product development at the Ann Arbor District Library. Evaluate technologies, prepare use cases, do usability analysis, assist in protocol and API design, seek out patrons to assist in development of applications, and organize a periodic event (Library Camp) to bring patron feedback on emerging technology to the Assistant Director and the Director and the staff.
Executive Director
Cisco Alumni Association (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; 501-1000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

April 2001 — Present (7 years 4 months)

The Cisco Alumni Association is an unincorporated assocation of former employees of Cisco Systems, Inc (CSCO).

As Executive Director and founder of this group, I recruit new members, occasionally helped by Cisco's perpetual restructuing and reorganization.

The group was formed in April 2001 when Cisco did its first large public layoff of 8500 people at the end of the dot-com boom. Its membership now numbers approximately 750 (Jan 2008).
Owner
The Vacuum Group LLC (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)

February 1998 — Present (10 years 6 months)

The Vacuum Group is a one-person LLC with colleagues in Ann Arbor and around the world. I make connections and get things done.

I have talent for identifying a need, forming a group to meet it, finding leaders and giving them the tools they need to organize online and offline.

The projects I've done as The Vacuum Group LLC include:

Organizing the Cisco Alumni Association on the day of an 8000-person layoff. Find us on LinkedIn and Yahoo Groups.

Building a podcast for non-profit client Assistive Media from existing audio content. Find it on iTunes.

Producing "Warren Easton in Exile", a weblog to reconnect students displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Producing an electronic coursepack in social network analysis for Wayne Baker's class at the Ross School of Business.

Evangelism of a new online public access catalog and weblog at the Ann Arbor District Library.

Perpetual search for an experimentation with tools that change the way communities and people communicate.
Director of Social Media

Pure Visibility

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

November 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 3 months)

I'm doing web and blog analytics, social media, and Adwords account management.

Tools used include Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools, MyBlogLog, 103bees,

Pure Visibility is an internet marketing company based in Ann Arbor, MI. It is based in Ann Arbor, MI and located in the First National Bank building at 201 S. Main St.

See http://www.purevisiblity.com
Founder, VP Customer Service

Socialtext

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)

January 2003 — July 2005 (2 years 7 months)

I am a founder of the company. We started after a few rounds of email spun off into a long phone calls, and the itch to build tools was compelling enough to start business planning. We didn't all meet until later.

As VP Customer Service, I brought my experiences of working with a distributed team. We pushed the envelope in an intense initial phase of working together without the luxury of funding.

Some projects:

Visualizing workspace collaboration using Valdis Krebs's Inflow for social network analysis.

Producing "Eventspace" conference wikis, updating live from a remote site connected by audio to build a tangible record of the event.

Writing extensive operations docs and tools for wiki systems administration.

Making the customer deleriously happy.

I decided to leave Socialtext after the birth of my son and after the company decided that for its next round of growth that it needed to relocate its management team to California.
Consultant and Technical Marketing Manager

Arbor Networks

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

August 2001 — October 2002 (1 year 3 months)

Managed technology integration of Arbor's product line with hardware from Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks as part of a business development organization, leading up to a successful Series B round.
Consulting Engineer, Office of the CTO

Cisco Systems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

February 1998 — April 2001 (3 years 3 months)

Corporate consulting focussed on network security and integrity. Worked with product development and with key customers on development of product features and requirements. Advised business development on technical aspects of acquisition and investment plans.
Assistant Director of Reserch

First Virtual Holdings

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; FVHI; Financial Services industry)

September 1995 — December 1997 (2 years 4 months)

First Virtual Holdings had the first Internet-based electronic money transfer and payments system, long before people were buying things en masse on the Internet. I was employee number 20 and did a variety of things, including running a distributed team providing customer service to tens of thousands of customers, day to day management of a software development and systems test team, and integration of a Unix payments and accounting system with a remote job entry system.
Founder, VP Research

MSEN

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

February 1991 — February 1995 (4 years 1 month)

Founder and VP Research at this pioneering internet service provider in Michigan. Bootstrapped this ISP by building out a statewide data network, beta tested all kinds of early dialup access equipment, and hosted early (Gopher based) internet applications like the Online Career Center jobs database.
Systems Administrator

OTA Limited Partnership

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

1989 — 1991 (2 years)
Systems Research Programmer

University of Michigan

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

1987 — 1989 (2 years)

Systems administrator for the campus-wide email gateway from Unix to the Michigan Terminal System, with responsibilities that included Usenet News and domain name servers.

After that, ran a network of Sun and Dec workstations for the Math and Statistics departments in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts.

Good place to learn what it takes to keep big systems running!

I was on duty when the Morris Worm hit and got my 15 minutes of fame on television then.

Edward Vielmetti’s Education

University of Michigan

B.A., Economics, 1982 — 1988

Activities and Societies:

University of Michigan Men's Glee Club, Student Conferencing Project, Slater Scholar, Branstrom Book Prize Award, James B. Angell Scholar, Inter-Cooperative Council, College Bowl
Northern Michigan University

Mathematics 1981 — 1984

I took mathematics classes (3 semesters of calculus and linear algebra) while I was in high school, and had 2 credits of Latin over a summer.
Marquette Senior High School

1978 — 1982

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Edward Vielmetti’s Interests:

Walking, lunch, history of technology, history of the Internet, the telegraph system, the railroad network, reading to my kids

Edward Vielmetti’s Groups:

Community Information Corps, People's Food Cooperative, International Network of Social Network Analysts, Usenix, Semislug, Michigan Men's Glee Club., Michigan Usability Professionals Association, Jerry's Retreat, NSFNET, m-net, Think New Orleans, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Ann Arbor SPARK, Library Camp, a2b3, arborparents, Lower Burns Park Neighborhood Association, Burns Park PTO, twitter, ArbCamp, Motor City Connect, Noonhat, Walker Tracker, LA2M