Web Guy
Portland, Oregon Area
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- Business Development at Open Sourcery
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- Owner at Tables Turned
- Director of Digital Music Licensing at WFMU
- Board Member at Portland Community Media
- Director of Business Development and Sales at Box Populi
- Owner at Local Orbit
- Writer, Director of Internet Marketing at The Sociomomics Institute
- Writer at Elliott Wave International
- Music Editor at Urban Propaganda / The Rant / The Huntsville Extra
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Marcus Estes’s Summary
I want to use the experience I've gained working for web companies and on my own as an tech entrepreneur to help companies use new media in newly subversive ways.
I'm a web geek, but I remain in deference to culture. The web has activated new cultural communication strategies, and I know the tools needed (Ruby on Rails, Drupal, CouchDB, OpenID, etc.) to put them to work.
Marcus Estes’s Specialties:
Web application development, rapid development frameworks, agile development methodologies, culturally encoded communications, counter-cultural theory, the commercialization of art, social software, social change.
Marcus Estes’s Experience
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Business Development
Open Sourcery
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2008 — Present (11 months)
I help Open Sourcery, a web development shop in Portland, OR, find and choose the right kind of partners for our business.
Our motto is "Technology for Good" and that means I seek jobs where we can really help people who are trying to help change the world. -
Owner
Tables Turned
(Music industry)
August 2005 — September 2008 (3 years 2 months)
Tables Turned helped the independent record industry license and distribute their music digitally to non-commercial radio for promotional use.
We also serviced non-commercial radio organizations with an open source Linux device that automatically encoded their on-air programming into podcasts, and distributed them within social networking applications based on Drupal. -
Director of Digital Music Licensing
WFMU
(Non-Profit; Broadcast Media industry)
September 2007 — February 2008 (6 months)
In 2007 I relocated to New York for six months to go to work for my favorite radio station, WFMU. I was hired to help develop software and to license music for use in a royalty-free web library used by non-commercial radio stations, music bloggers, and fans. The software component of the project is called the Free Music Archive and it will launch in 2008.
While there I worked with artists, record labels, and publishers to help them see the benefits of digital licensing for promotional use. I still believe the industry can work together to heal the damage now being done to internet radio by newly increased royalty rates. -
Board Member
Portland Community Media
(Telecommunications industry)
March 2007 — February 2008 (1 year)
I served on the Board of Directors at Portland Community Media, one of America's first public access television stations. I contributed to their development efforts and worked with them to build a new digital architecture that will allow them to broadcast their programming on the web.
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Director of Business Development and Sales
Box Populi
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2006 — December 2006 (7 months)
Here I marketed a podcasting appliance to universities and I also opened up new markets by negotiating vendor licensing and reseller deals. This is where I first got down and dirty with the application of patent law and business practices involving incentive structuring and VAR business development.
The project that I'm most proud of is the open sourcing of our software platform, under the GPL. This took a lot of analysis, research and old fashioned check-your-gut-courage and I'm happy to have been a part of it.
We fought against DRM standards and worked to put more Linux boxes on university campuses all over the United States. This company remains a really powerful "Force of Good" in this world and I will always be thankful for what I learned working there. -
Owner
Local Orbit
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2005 — December 2005 (1 year)
After using the brand for my freelance web design services for several years prior, in 2005 I helped transform Local Orbit into a software company dedicated to helping the SMB market build pay per click web advertising campaigns.
Here was our wacky idea: We built a flat rate market for auctioned pay per click ads and absorbed the risk of price fluctuations in our margin.
We were being too smart for our britches. But it was fun. -
Writer, Director of Internet Marketing
The Sociomomics Institute
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 2003 — August 2004 (1 year 8 months)
My first job at a think tank. I wrote articles about statistical correlations between the stock market and box office receipts from different genres of movies.
(It's true, bull market produce successful Disney movies; Bear markets, horror movies.) -
Writer
Elliott Wave International
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
After moving to Athens, GA, I was hired at Elliott Wave International as a writer and began a daily column on technical analysis of commodity futures, which I knew nothing about.
Elliott Wave has a small but rabidly loyal following of financial traders who think the stock market is going to crash and send the United States into the second great depression. (It's been "imminent" since 1995. I still believe it, though.) -
Music Editor
Urban Propaganda / The Rant / The Huntsville Extra
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)
1995 — 2000 (5 years)
After dropping out of high school at age 15 I went to work for the local alternative weekly. I wrote music reviews, managed the entertainment section, and helped with copy editing.
The original owner left town in the middle of the night after stealing a car stereo from the BMW of a local television personality, leaving a swarm of pending lawsuits in his wake. He was one of my first heroes.
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Marcus Estes’s Interests:
I am very experienced with standards-based XHTML and CSS layout. I also graze the Ruby on Rails docs, tinker with microcontrollers, Linux, read deeply into cultural studies, and almost every form of human cultural production. Everything I know I taught myself and was impelled to do so by by innate enthusiasms and curiosity.
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