Rikk Carey

Current

CEO/Founder at CloudPlay, Inc.

Past

Foundee/EVP Engineering at Plaxo, Inc.
GM Music at Yahoo!
SVP Engineering at eGroups / ONElist

SVP at ONElist
Senior Director of Engineering at SGI
Director of Engineering at Vertigo/Cubicomp

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Education

Cornell University
University of Maryland College Park
University of Maryland Baltimore County

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Recommended

4 people have recommended Rikk

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

My Blog

Rikk Carey’s Summary

Wanted to be an architect, somehow moved in to bridge design, fell in love with computer graphics, learned how to think and code at Cornell, moved to Vancouver for my first startup (and did everything wrong), lured to "Mecca" (Silicon Valley) and worked at SGI for eight years, (still bleed purple), left for the Internet revolution, started a few companies, joined ONElist/eGroups, drank Y! kool-aid, left soon after, started Plaxo, worked for seven years, and finally back to what I truly love: computer graphics, communities, and games.

Rikk Carey’s Specialties:

online games, consumer internet, viral mechanics, online community, sw/internet eng/prod, 3D and digital media, UI, UE, U*, agile dev, union negotiating, cat herding, and goat rodeos...

Rikk Carey’s Experience

Foundee/EVP Engineering

Plaxo, Inc.

(Public Company; Internet industry)

March 2002 — May 2007 (5 years 3 months)

Contact/calendar network service -- updates and connects your address book with others (Outlook, Outlook Express, web), mobile stuff, calendaring too...
GM Music

Yahoo!

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

September 2000 — March 2001 (7 months)

Yahoo! Music for a very short time... I had the bad luck of working at Y! during it's worst 6 months...
SVP Engineering

eGroups / ONElist

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

September 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 1 month)

Led eng team and prod dev during merger of the two companies, had a great time with a great group of people, acquired by Yahoo! and became Yahoo! Groups...
SVP

ONElist

(Internet industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year )
Senior Director of Engineering

SGI

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SGI; Computer Hardware industry)

May 1989 — September 1998 (9 years 5 months)

Various 3D graphics projects: inventor toolkit, VRML, Cosmo, and various other 3D projects -- returned in 1998 to help sell off cosmo.
Director of Engineering

Vertigo/Cubicomp

(Internet industry)

1984 — 1989 (5 years )

Rikk Carey’s Education

Cornell University

MS , CS , 1982 — 1984

Don Greenberg's lab
Master's on texture mapping for ray tracing

Activities and Societies:

Program of Computer Graphics
University of Maryland College Park

BS Eng , Structural engineering , 1974 — 1981

Started MS and quit during last semester to go to Cornell

Activities and Societies:

Tau Beta Pi
Chi Epsilon
University of Maryland Baltimore County

BS , 1974 — 1976

Additional Information

Rikk Carey’s Websites:

My Blog

Rikk Carey’s Interests:

consumer internet, social networking, new models for games & entertainment, user experience, visual design, snowboarding, sea kayaking, body boarding, golf