Allen Hurff

Current

• Chairman, Board Member at OpenSocial Foundation
• Senior Vice President of Engineering at MySpace

Past

• Senior Engineer at Experian Consumer Direct
• Manager, at AltaVista

Education

• Radford University

Recommended

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Connections

346 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• FriendFeed

Allen Hurff’s Summary

Evolving MySpace Engineering Team
Building component-based scalable network
Working with other companies and organizations
Working on fun but complex projects that require loads of critical thinking to problem solve

Allen Hurff’s Specialties:

Building Teams, Bringing the Right People Together, Bringing order to Chaos, Working in Controlled Chaos, Build the right energies for a give project or team

Allen Hurff’s Experience

• Chairman, Board Member

  OpenSocial Foundation

  (Internet industry)

  November 2008 — Present (9 months)

  Work with other Board Member from Ning, Google, Yahoo, Plaxo, Flixster, and Hi5 to make sure that OpenSocial continues to grow and be open and transformative to the online application platform industry.

• Senior Vice President of Engineering

  MySpace

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)

• Senior Engineer

  Experian Consumer Direct

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; EXPN; Internet industry)

  September 2001 — January 2003 (1 year 5 months)

• Manager,

  AltaVista

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; CMGI; Internet industry)

  January 1998 — July 2000 (2 years 7 months)

Allen Hurff’s Education

• Radford University

  N/A , Communications , 1992 — 1994

  Build Websites in Spy Glass / Netscape ... building my first web pages.

  Activities and Societies:

  Sigma Pi, Founded Fraternity, and Band Manager

Additional Information

Allen Hurff’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• FriendFeed

Allen Hurff’s Interests:

Management, New Technology, Reading World News, TV, other things

Allen Hurff’s Groups:

OpenSocial Foundation

Allen Hurff’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• new ventures
• expertise requests
• getting back in touch