ex-mozilla

Bill VanderWall

2010-03-08T17:14:37-07:00

My last day with Netscape / AOL / AOL Time Warner was Mon, Nov 26,
2001, one day before my 6th anniversary with Netscape.  I was in IS
and helped manage the Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft HR, Excalibur
Sales Force Automation, iPlanet systems, iCal, BuyerXpert, etc. 

I had a great run at a great company.  I'm sure my experiences at
Netscape will be unmatched through the rest of my career.  The people
I worked with were amazing.

I'm currently married, living in SF with my wife and daughter.

Update (Aug., 2006):  I quit a job at Williams-Sonoma, Inc. about a
year ago and started doing IT contracting work as VanderWall Group,
Inc.  I'm currently helping an industrial waste management company
roll-out a sales force automation tool and an operational application
to handle dispatching job orders to payroll and billing.  I'm working
out of my house in S.F., and have a very flexible schedule.  Drop me a
note at bill@vanderwall.com if you want to have lunch or coffee in the
city sometime.

PS - I miss Netscape.  I drove my wife past the old campus this past
weekend and reminisced about the good ol' days.

Update:  (Aug, 2007):  Just started working at Riverbed in SF last
week as Director of IT Business Applications.

Update: (March, 2010):  Working at Scientific Learning Corporation
as Sr. Director of IT since July, 2009.

Thanks,
Bill V.

Gary Clarke

2010-03-07T11:40:27-07:00

3/10

Moved back to awesome Austin, working with startups in the e.reader, publishing space

http://www.linkedin.com/in/gclarke
gclarke@me.com
AIM: hootchboy

Yuan Chiao Huntington Weigel

2010-03-02T10:54:10-07:00

Was at Netscape from 6/24/1996 to 4/7/2000

Worked at Developer Relations, NAS Product Marketing, and AOL Travel. Needless to say, the four years at Netscape were the best in my career, and I highly doubt the experience will be surpassed. HOWEVER, if you find a place that comes close, would you please tell me?

Won't bore you with my work history since Netscape (see LinkedIn). Have been working at Kaazing since October 2009. Brad Drysdale just joined here too. Long Live Mozilla!

BTW, are you a kick-a** developer? Or know someone who is the best? We are hiring!! :) If you are interested, please send me an email. Kaazing is a great place to work and there are already two Netscapers here!

Can always be reached at yuanc at yahoo dot com

Robin Goldfarb

2010-02-24T12:16:38-07:00

ex-mozilla profile Hi everyone! I started at Netscape in '97 as an ESAM at Bear Stearns & Co.(The sometimes cool but mostly "Uh-oh, it's Bear on the phone" account). I was then promoted to SE in the NY Metro region. Then AOL came, I left. (Not by choice)

Anyway, I then became an SE/Architect at Sun Microsystems specializing in Java System (previously known as SunONE, iPlanet, Netscape...) software & interoperability solutions. But now Sun = Oracle, and I'm a student at Columbia University. I'm pursuing a Masters in Educational Technology!
You can reach me at:

My cell phone: 646-302-9850
email: robin.m.wilensky@gmail.com Oh yeah, since my last update, I got married! Hence the new last name. :)

Hope you are all enjoying your new positions!

Syd Logan

2010-02-20T04:43:08-07:00

2010-02-04T16:57:30-07:00

unalome

2010-02-04T16:43:36-07:00

Bill Keeshen

2010-01-28T15:01:54-07:00

What's new and exciting?

Looking for opportunities!

http://www.linkedin.com/in/keeshen  

keeshen (at) gmail.com
415 310 4826

CONNIE

2010-01-15T11:35:17-07:00

was in programming at Netscape - still the best browser ever.  Now QA
at eBay lookin good Java/JUnit developers send me your resume @
cbustill@ebay.com

Connie

2010-01-15T11:31:38-07:00

used to work in engineering - still the bet browser ever!  I'm in QA
looking for good Java/JUnit engineers.  send me your resume at
cbustill@ebay.com

Brad Drysdale

2010-01-11T03:48:05-07:00

9/96 - 10/98

I was in the Sydney, Australia office of Netscape from 1996 til late 1998.

I sacrificed valuable vesting time and stock price to save my soul from burning at AOL.

Went to Software.com for a few years. Merged with Phone.com to become Openwave.

Next was AirFlash. Did the whole start-up thing all over again with all the old Netscape people. We merged with Webraska and got raped.

Then came BEA.

April 2003, update:
Still at BEA. Going well. Anyone doing anything out there that is changing the world?

January 2004, update:
BEA still. Same old, same old. No complaints.

Feb 2006, update:
Now at a new startup changing the Java world: Azul Systems.
Based in London. Missing the Sydney warmth.

March 2007, update:
Still at Azul. Having quite a bit of fun with this one actually.

April 2008, update:
Same old, same old Azul. Would quite fancy a new startup though....

October 2008, update:
World is falling apart, recession, doom and gloom. Breeds innovation? Bloody hope so.

December 2009, update:
Woot! Start a new gig in January. A new exciting startup. Stay tuned.

January 2010, update:
Kaazing time!

bjd@netscape.net

Heather Trumbower

2010-01-01T09:29:17-07:00

Netscape Tech Support (Jan. 96 - Mar. 98)

Update January 2010

98-02: QA for Extricity B2B software (acquired by Peregrine - mistake
- too many acquisitions and creative accounting and the general bust
happened anyway)
02-07: QA and development for UCSC Genome Browser - still going at
genome.ucsc.edu 
07-current: doing the wild ride all over again at Navigenics (direct
to consumer genetic testing)

Still at heather_trumbower at yahoo dot com and now marginally on
Twitter (htrumbower).

Enjoyed watching Code Rush recently.   Also great Jamie interview in
Coders at Work.

Aaron Leventhal

2009-12-03T10:40:12-07:00

What's old is new again. Working on web news at a startup called DotSpots.

You can reach me at aaron@moonset.net. Here are the pictures of my new life.

Andy Walker

2009-11-18T09:10:14-07:00

Nov/2009: so much for biennial. My updates seem to be following Fibonacci in their frequency (or lack thereof). andyw is no more. These days it's andz @Google. Inbetween I wound up as a research subject on a high altitude expedition. See you in 2014.
Oct/2006: Time for my semi biennial trip into the vaults of memory lane and get myself back to the top of the list again. Surprising that after all this time the memories of Netscape still bring a lump to the throat. I could put this down to the mind's inability to retain traumatic memories but for me Netscape will always remain a glorious sunny day in Silicon Valley surrounded by vibrant people. Always interested in interesting opportunities though slightly more cynical of sure fire startups than when I began. sigh reading this has made me feel old...

Netscape UK PS from 1997-2000. Did some stuff I was genuinely proud of with people I was genuinely in awe of. Left. Wallowed in self pity "missing the good old days" for a couple of years. Got over it (well mostly).

oh yeah and hi to gkm, rjb, gblock, bradley, mdavies, nicka, farooq, pderby, drobinso, drnic, matthew, tas, john, fjoy et al. (and yes I'm going to hell for not mentioning the few hundred other people who at various times saved my ass).

andzwa AT gmail -dot- com

Chris Zaharias

2009-11-09T08:30:09-07:00

NOW: CRO at Kikin, a startup trying to improve the user experience in
search, navigation, ecommerce and social media. www.kikin.com

2008-09: VP Search Sales at Omniture (NASDAQ: OMTR, acq'd by Adobe
10/09), selling SEM solutions to Google's top advertisers. 

8/03-07: Built & ran Sales for Efficient Frontier, an SEM
applying hedge fund algorithms to the optimization of large paid
search campaigns on Google, Y! and MSN.  

My blog: http://searchquant.blogspot.com 

Married 13 years now to Patou, who I got to know while in Paris 
w/NSCP, & we have three boys, Theo (12), Luca (10) and Milo (3). 
Living in Palo Alto, glad to have had the chance to work at the 
mother of all internet cos. 

TRUE STORY:  I was in NYC and met a partner whose brother works at 
MSFT. Said brother had an ATV accident several months back, and upon 
coming out of a 2-week coma was asked a number of questions due to 
apparent amnesia.  When asked where he worked, he said (and I swear 
to God this is true) "I'm not sure, but it had something to do with 
world domination." 

chris.zaharias@gmail.com
YIM: shorebreak
AIM: searchquant
415-832-0089 cell