Talaris Alumni
This page provides pointers to alumni of Talaris Corporation. If you are a former employee of Talaris please get in touch. Send me the text for your entry and I'll add it -- Jeff English (jeffenglish@yahoo.com).
Note: If you are not an alumnus of Talaris, please refrain from contacting the individuals below unless they state they are an independent consultant or contractor, or you are personally known to them - thanks.
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Annette DeNoyer |
Product Manager from July 2000 - September 2002, as well as stints as a Usability Manager and Tech Writer. |
Graduating from Northwestern in June with a masters in creative writing, which qualifies me for exactly zero jobs. Planning on moving back to San Francisco by August/September 2006. If you know anyone who wants to employ a starving writer, let me know! |
01/30/06 |
Bobby Chen |
Product Manager and master of junk food consumption. |
I’ve just moved back to the Bay Area. Working as a Product Marketing Manager at eBay. We also just had our first child (a boy!) |
02/01/06 |
Borre Ulrichsen |
I played a variety of roles in Product Management, Program Management, and Professional Services from March 2001 through June 2002. |
I am currently the Director of Information Systems Projects at San Francisco State University. |
02/17/04 |
Danny Ruspini |
Software Engineer, UI Group from February 2002 to March 2003. |
I'm a Sr. Interface Developer for Avenue A | Razorfish (http://razorfish.com). I live in Mill Valley but am looking to move back into S.F. summer 2006 for one last hurrah. |
01/30/06 |
Darren Nguyen |
Unix System admin Jan 2001-Jan 2003. |
Unix System Admin for hotwire.com. The people at Talaris were great..foosball was the best... |
02/20/04 |
David Ghandehari |
Frightened user-interface code monkey from September 2001 to November 2002. |
Developing cell-phone games (J2ME and BREW) for Centerscore, Inc. in Palo Alto. |
02/14/04 |
Earl Barron |
Technical writer and online help developer, "you lie and I'll swear to it." |
I'm doing documentation and localization for Human Concepts, makers of OrgPlus. http://orgplus.com/ |
01/30/06 |
Edith Chan |
Field Engineer, August 2000 - Feb 2002. A bit of everything in between Suppliers, BizDev, Prod Mgmt, and Engineering. Enjoyed fun brain teasers from Tuan & Steve S. |
Studying Traditional Chinese Medicine full-time at ACTCM (www.actcm.edu ). Also been apprenticing with a renouned Chinese Doctor & Shaolin QiGong master from Beijing. Learning to better appreciate life, health, peace, and balance. Part-time work coaching local SF athletes in cycling & triathlon. |
02/21/04 |
George Gould |
Lost in translation (a.k.a. Whipping boy). |
Been off the Kool-Aid for 3+ years and doing great. My Schwab reports are substantially thinner since the glory days of the bubble, but fantasies don’t last forever…and sooner or later you have to leave Never Land and grow up (well, most of us do). Riding the SOA (AquaLogic) wave at BEA and now report to our CTO running a worldwide group of overpaid SOA architects (but wouldn’t trade them for the world). Expanding the family by one with a little girl, Sage, in 2003. Happy trails. |
01/29/06 |
Ilya Izrailevsky |
Software Engineer, Workflow Group from May 2000 - Feb 2004. Worked on Sql2Java and the Rules Engine. |
Web Developer (XML/XSL) at PayPal. |
05/28/04 |
Janet Lim |
Financial Analyst October 2000-May 2002. |
Accounting Analyst at PG&E Corporation. |
02/20/04 |
Jeff English |
Worked on the User Experience for version .7 through 2.2, from February 2001 through June 2002. |
I'm the User Experience Manager at
mortgage software company Ellie Mae Previously, I was the User Experience Manager for the Supply Chain Management product line at PeopleSoft from June 2002 to January 2006.
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01/20/06 |
John Hsu |
Sysadmin 2000-2002, started in Palo Alto where we had 10 megabit hubs daisy-chain around the floor (thanks to whoever was the network engineer before Jorge). |
Sysadmin at Pacific Exchange at dawn. Owner of Naked Fish (sushi restaurant) in San Francisco, Marina district at night. |
04/23/04 |
Josh Gould |
Software Engineer, UI Group from Feb 2001 - Aug 2003. |
UI Designer at PayPal. |
02/19/04 |
Julia Yu |
October 2000 - July 2002 QA Engineer. |
QA Engineer at PayPal. |
02/19/04 |
Jun Zhang |
Worked on adapters from June 2000 to December 2003. Organized the first and also the last ping-pong tournament (unfinished). |
Doing some XML/XSL work at PayPal. |
02/23/04 |
Karen Lau |
Business Development Associate Sept. 2000-Jan. 2002. I think I was employee #14 or something. |
Went back to the finance world and work for private equity investment firm TA Associates (www.ta.com). My job is basically to find interesting companies to invest in. Funny side note: the firm upstairs from us, Foundation Capital, just did Talaris' last round :P They also had a partner that died from a drug overdose.... In my free time, I'm still playing volleyball, trying to squeeze in some travel, and I'm starting to do some wedding planning because I got engaged over Christmas! |
04/27/04 |
Louis Kruger |
Sr. Software Engineer from June 2000 - June 2001. Developed initial versions of call center applications, using CTI and voice recognition, and outbound voice dialing procurement applications. Also performed various other tasks such as network administration and server and UI development as necessary at a very early stage startup. I think I was employee #10, and engineer #4. I think back on the time spent there as a unique intensely personal and life-changing experience. |
Graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, working on a Computer Science Ph.D in security and data privacy. |
07/28/05 |
Marya Ozer Gomez |
Talaris product manager from 2/01 - 10/04 (version .7 through 2.5). |
I'm a product manager at CTB/McGraw-Hill, responsible for diagnostic assessment products and technology innovations. We are the leading provider of standardized assessments in K-12 education. Quite a switch from the Gazoo/Talaris/Rearden Commerce days, but working in education has been a welcome change for me. If your kids are in public school, we make something similar to the "STAR" test. I specialize in K- grade 12 science assessments as well as preK - grade 3 literacy and math assessments. |
01/30/06 |
Naidong Shao |
Started as one of the Gazoo basement engineers June 2000 to October 2002. |
The same old stuff at Wellsfargo; Meanwhile enjoy painting my house and dancing with my 2-year old daugher. |
03/03/04 |
Patrick Davis |
Visual UI Designer - 6/01 - 2/02. |
Senior Designer - Marketing Communications at Credence Systems Corporation. |
02/20/04 |
Patrick Garvey |
Intern June - August 2002 |
Hotel Product Analyst at Hotwire. I miss the ducks in the fountain. |
04/17/04 |
Paul Bieber |
Business Development and Product Marketing Manager April 2000 – March 2002. |
I’m a Research Analyst at Piper Jaffray covering the Internet sector. |
01/30/06 |
Quang Le |
I was running QA GUI test automation at Talaris from 10/2001 to 04/2002. Enjoyed playing fooballs with Pius/Stephen/Albert and others that I forgot their names ... My bad :) |
Performance Engineer at SBC Communications. If you ever need any communication needs for your home or business. I am glad to hook you up. |
02/23/04 |
Rob Carr |
Employee #5, April 2000 - March 2002, Business Development Associate worked on building out the supplier network, Options $0.01. |
Director Sales, Thomson Financial. Provide solutions to corporate CFO, Treasury and Investor Relations departments. |
02/19/04 |
Roman Bukary |
At Talaris I ran product marketing. |
I head-up SAP's business intelligence product marketing. |
02/19/04 |
Shaw Taylor |
Product marketing, sales, wireless business development (remember that!?) from Dec 2000 - May 2002. Hope you are all happy and healthy! |
Marketing director for a privately held ticketing company servicing a variety of entertainment venues. |
03/08/04 |
Stein Soelberg |
July 2000 to July 2002, Product Management, Product Marketing and Marketing. |
I just joined a new business grade VOIP company called Cbeyond Communications as Director of Marketing. |
04/29/06 |
Stephen Lai |
QA Monkey from July 2001 to September 2003. Specialties included Package Shipping/Package Shipment, Courier/Same-Day Delivery, and Conference Call/Audio Conference. |
Guitarist for www.lovesic.com and slave for www.paypal.com. |
02/20/04 |
Steven Samorodin |
Engineer and later Engineering Manager (ugh) from Nov 2000 - Oct 2003. |
Engineer at TiVo. Hired when the start up I was working for, Strangeberry, got acquired in January. |
02/19/04 |
Troi Valencia |
QA Engineer for like a minute...but seemed like 7 years. |
Head on straight now, married, baby girl (pics are at www.nonecktroi.com), and QA Manager at Bitfone Corporation for the last 3 years. Still able to take Robbin Velayadam to the hoop at any given time! |
03/16/04 |
Tuan Le |
Did something in Engineering ... I musta been smoking something at the time. Have an expired options check from Talaris for a wee bit less than $1 ... Should frame that sucker. |
Doing something else in Engineering at Symantec ... But now clean and sober! Miss the fooz and ping-pong though. That was the best! |
02/19/04 |