{"id":16,"date":"2014-04-04T11:01:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T18:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2014-04-04T16:32:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T23:32:17","slug":"career","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/?page_id=16","title":{"rendered":"Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"obligatory<\/a>I put my MBA to use working for over 8 years for Tyco Thermal Controls<\/a>, the heat tracing and instrumentation subsidiary of Tyco International<\/a> (formerly Raychem’s Chemelex division). I worked my way up through a variety of marketing and technical positions. For the last two years at Tyco, I was Product and Marketing Manager for Asia. I was based as an expatriate in Seoul, Korea and traveled throughout much of Asia. Living there was a great experience and I learned a lot (feel free to check out my Asia Web Journals<\/a>, where I wrote about many of my mostly non-work experiences).<\/p>\n

After working and living in Asia, I decided I needed a break from the corporate world, so I left Tyco (and none too soon going by their stock price, which dropped by over half once I put my notice in – though not likely due to my leaving).<\/p>\n

Since then, I have been doing a variety of marketing consulting work for my own consultancy named Expand Abroad Consulting<\/a>, for a colleagues consultancy Portal Creative Marketing<\/a>, teaching Global Management classes at University of Phoenix, and taking classes (including spending 5 months studying Japanese in Japan – I am finally getting close to being fluent).<\/p>\n

I have also tried my hand as an Entrepreneur. In 2003, I developed and launched HELP<\/small>UHIRE<\/small> Solutions<\/a>, an ASP-based business service that enables companies to easily and cost effectively manage the responses they receive to their job openings.<\/p>\n

I also helped a friend open (including taking an equity stake in) a high end mountain bike retailer in 2005, called Passion Trail Bikes, and that business is still growing.<\/p>\n

And from 2000-2013, I started and ran California Kayaker Magazine<\/a>, an advertiser-supported, free print and online regional kayaking magazine.<\/p>\n

On the side, I also “work” for a few paddle sports retailers and tour companies teaching and guiding kayak and SUP programs (sometimes it is hard to call paddling work).<\/p>\n

For more details on my career, feel free to check out my LinkedIn profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I put my MBA to use working for over 8 years for Tyco Thermal Controls, the heat tracing and instrumentation subsidiary of Tyco International (formerly Raychem’s Chemelex division). I worked my way up through a variety of marketing and technical positions. For the last two years at Tyco, I was Product and Marketing Manager for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlespeed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}