Local Guides Meetup Day, June 2016

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Last month I hosted a Local Guides meetup day event with the Cleveland Insiders (our unofficial Google Local Guides chapter). We had a blast! Tess, Pete, Chris, Ryan, Erin, and myself met up at the Soldiers’ and Sailors monument. This monument dates back to the Civil War and has a very cool interior, including scenes from when Lincoln’s body was in Cleveland. After we had chatted for a bit, we headed over to the 5th Street Arcade.

Halo MCC Launch/My Love Affair with Halo

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This past week I got to attend the Halo: Master Chief Collection midnight launch at the Microsoft store in Beachwood. While I didn’t pick up my copy there (preordered from Amazon), I did want to experience the joy that is a midnight launch party again.  Why would I attend a midnight launch of a game during a “school night”? The answer lies roughly 11 years in the past.


Dreamforce 2014

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Last week, I boarded a plane with a few of my coworkers and flew back to my former home (San Francisco) for one of the largest conferences that city can hold- Dreamforce. This was an culmination of months of top-secret work that a variety of coworkers and I worked on to build something completely new. It is called Prototype Playground- a place where the enterprise could see what we are learning about and creating when it comes to wearable technology. During the conference, it was a huge hit. As the dust settles, we discovered what we pulled off was nothing short of astonishing.

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