Meet the Mozzers!
Posted by jennita
Over the past few months, we’ve announced a number of exciting changes here at the mozPlex. Some of those include becoming focused on our software, new SEO tools and a cultural change with our TAGFEE Tenets. With that, we’re committed to being transparent and authentic and feel we’ve done a great job keeping the SEOmoz community up to date on many of these changes.
However, one area we’ve been slacking is in ensuring that our community knows who we are, as a team. There are many mozzers who mainly work behind the scenes building tools, or providing excellent customer service to our members. Along with our shift from consulting, we’ve had a few organizational changes and people’s roles have changed. Additionally we have a number of moz Associates that help contribute to the blog and provide expertise in Q & A.
We’d like to take this opportunity to introduce you to our team, and ask you to get to know us a little better. There are a few new mozzers that may even surprise you! This is an exciting time for us and the community and we’re excited to introduce ourselves. Each mozzer was asked to provide their title, social media accounts, top moz moment (tools created, blog posts written, etc.), then I asked them to answer a few fun questions. So without further ado, I’d like you to meet the mozzers.
Development Team
Every team plays an important role to the success of SEOmoz and our tools, but the development team is key. Without this group we wouldn’t have the suite of amazing tools that we have to offer our members today. Browse through the developers and see who has worked on your favorite tool, and learn more about the people behind the scenes.
Ben Hendrickson ;) Sr Software Engineer .jpg){kind=logo} moz Moment"From the day I started building the Linkscape prototype to the day we launched the first version was about 10 months. I think that project went well." |
Chas Williams ;) Software Developer moz Moment "I work mostly on Linkscape these days. I wrote the code for anchor text distributions and the new views for OSE, so the OSE launch was a proud moment for me :)"
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David Joslin Systems Engineer moz Moment "Since starting in August I have worked to improve our uptime significantly through monitoring, tuning, and application fixes. " |
Jeff Pollard ;) Lead Web Developer  moz Moment"I make sure your website experience is a wonderful one! :)"
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Kate Matsudaira ;) VP Engineering moz Moment"Helping bring SEO tools and technology to the next level" |
Ken Woodruff Senior Architect |
Nick Gerner ;) Senior Engineer moz MomentNick Leads SEOmoz API development and is currently working on solutions for historical Linkscape data tracking. |
Phil Smith ;) Developer moz Moment"Working on sooper-top secret project"
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Roger Mozbot ;) Needs No Title moz MomentStanding on a crate in order to be as tall as Googlebot.
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David on LinkedIn
Nick on FacebookMarketing Team
Now that we are focused on our SEO tools, the consulting and marketing teams have been combined. There have been a number of changes in roles and we’re now more focused than ever on getting our products launched, participating and leading our amazing community, and creating excellent content for our readers. Take a peak at our new Marketing team!
Danny Dover ;) SEO Specialist moz MomentDanny is at least half full of SEO know-how |
Jen Sable Lopez ;) Community Director moz MomentHaving worked remotely for 9 months, I LOVE being in the office.
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Joanna Lord ;) Director of Customer Acquisition & Engagement moz Moment"My focus is on introducing new audiences to our awesome resources and SEO tools. " |
Scott Willoughby ;) Director-Conversion & Retention Marketing |
Product Team
The product team leads the path to ensuring that the products being built meet the needs of our customers and they manage the projects from inception through deployment. Essentially they make sure we’re all doing our jobs. :)
Adam Feldstein ;) Director of Product Management moz MomentCurrent Focus: 1) Ship a new version of the mozBar. 2) Something much bigger (that I can’t talk about yet) |
Ben Huff ;) Product Manager moz Moment"I focus on herding cats. Recently that included getting Open Site Explorer out the door, safe and sound. I’m currently working on doing the same for the new Keyword Difficulty tool." |
Matt Heilman ;) Art Director moz Moment"I make SEOmoz look good"
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Operations Team
Who keeps the company working like a well oiled machine? That’s the Operations team of course! They jump in and help with any aspect of the company as needed and are often our customers first point of contact. Without their magic touch the office would be running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Thanks for keeping us from running into each other!
Arden Turnbull ;) Customer Service Manager / Office Coordinator moz MomentArden keeps our customers happy! |
Christine V. Director of Operations moz MomentI do my best to increase the staff’s level of happiness and productiveness, much like Tattoo on Fantasy Island. |
Sarah Bird ;) Chief Operations Officer moz MomentI own legal, financial, HR, and generally help make everything run smoothly. I also champion the Marketing Department and the SEOmoz API. I love my job. :) |
moz Associates
This is an amazing group of experts from across the search marketing industry. We’re priveledged to have this group contributing to the blog, helping with Q & A and providing insight for new products. It sorta feels like we’re showing off… because we totally are!
Cindy Krum CEO & founder of Rank-Mobile - Denver, CO |
Duncan Morris ;) Founder and CEO, Distilled - London, UK |
Jane Copland ;) SEO Consultant, Ayima Search Marketing - London, England moz Moment"I’ve written a couple of successful blog posts for SEOmoz (I worked as a full-time employee at SEOmoz from 2006 until 2009). My favourites are: Don’t End URLs in .0, What Rand and Jane Write When They’re Drunk, the follow-up and A True Story. It’s about hookers." |
Kate Morris ;) Kate Morris, Search Engine Marketing Consultant - Austin, TX moz Moment"My favorite blog post on YouMoz was Paid Search: Detaching From an Agency, which is what got me speaking on my first panel at SMX East 2008." |
Lindsay Wassell ;) Q & A - Tampa Bay, FL |
Michael Cottam ;) Principal, Michael Cottam SEO Consulting - Portland, OR, Canada moz MomentI like this one, and it seemed to generate a pile o’ comments: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/its-a-feeding-frenzy-for-keywordrich-domains |
Peter Meyers ;) President, User Effect - Chicago, IL moz MomentThe post: SEO Cheat Sheet: Anatomy of a URL My most popular post on my own blog (by a longshot) is 25 Point Website Usability Checklist. |
Richard Baxter Director / Founder SEOgadget.co.uk - London, UK moz MomentHmm. I like writing about tools you guys do - Like this and this and pretty charts on ranking factors using Linkscape data like this. And I really like talking about Microformats. |
Rob Ousbey ;) Search Marketing Consultant, Distilled - Seattle, WA (soon to be) |
Sam Crocker.jpg) SEO Consultant, Distilled - London, for now! moz MomentI’m pretty new to the moz crew but I was pretty pleased with manning up to take on a "doozy" for my first Q & A and think I found a good solution to the problem |
Tom Critchlow ;) Head of Search Marketing, Distilled - London Baby. moz MomentMy most loved SEOmoz post was this one, mainly because of it’s sensationalist headline… Headlines ftw. My proudest SEOmoz contribution was speaking at both the Seattle and London pro seminars in 2009 and getting some really positive feedback and comments. |
Will Critchlow ;) Co-Founder of Distilled, UK & US - London, UK. Though anywhere rainy appears to do. moz MomentTaking credit for lots of things done by our team, I’m probably most proud of the London PRO seminar in October last year. My personal favourite post, mainly for the title (just google "space monstering") is this one. |
Boss Team
Last, but definitely not least we have our co-founders Rand and Gillian. They may very well be the most well known of the bunch, but I bet you didn’t know Rand used to be a black market Pokemon dealer! Without these two, we wouldn’t be the team we are today.
Gillian Muessig ;) President/Co-Founder moz Moment"I’m the corporate evangelist and international voice for SEOmoz. My role is to connect the the SEOmoz community with the SEOmoz team and to spread the SEOmoz brand to new audiences and markets." |
Rand Fishkin ;) CEO |
Thanks for taking the time to get to know us!
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