Tom Geller                       Office: +1-415-552-2557
829 14th Street                  Home:   +1-415-552-4356
San Francisco, CA 94114               resume@tgeller.com
United States of America          http://www.tgeller.com

  More at http://www.tgeller.com/personal/resume.shtml

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EXPERIENCE

SPAMCON FOUNDATION, 2001-2002
Founder and Executive Director
  Founded nonprofit, antispam organization; established
  501(c)(3) sponsorship; installed board, legal and accounting
  teams; developed revenue-generating partnerships; created
  and implemented programs; ran high-profile conference.

BANDWIDTH P.R., San Francisco, 2000-2001
Founder and President
  Managed all aspects of high-tech agency creation and
  operations; built revenue to $20,000/month in six months.
  Clients included Qualcomm, Penguin Computing, Topica,
  Brightmail.

GCI GROUP, San Francisco, 1999-2000
Senior Account Executive
  Serviced clients, led office professional development
  program, consulted internally for technical matters,
  contributed to pitches for high-tech practice. Clients
  included: Sun Microsystems, Telseon, Globalstar.

SILICON VALLEY P.R., Principal, San Francisco, 1997-1999

MACWEEK, Associate Editor/Reviews, San Francisco, 1996-1997

FREELANCE WRITER, San Francisco, 1995-1996

ACADEMY OF ENGLISH, Partner, San Francisco, 1994-1997

ZIFF-DAVIS, Associate Editor, San Francisco, 1994-1995

PUBLISHING CONSULTANT, Cincinnati, Rotterdam, San Francisco, 1988-1994


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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

* One of the world's most sought-after experts on email
  politics and culture, with appearances in: New York Times,
  Wall Street Journal, eWeek, Wired News, MSNBCi, Gartner
  Group, IDG News Service, Infoworld, PCWorld, LA Times, The
  Guardian (U.K.), The Australian, Salon, Computerworld, CNN
  Online, Dow Jones Newswire, Washington Post, Cox Newspapers,
  dozens of metropolitan dailies. Broadcast appearances
  include CNNfn, CNET Radio, TechTV.
  
* Published over 200,000 words in books, magazines, online
  venues. Edited an estimated 400,000 more. Wrote or edited
  several hundred thousand words of corporate communications.
  
* Frequent speaker: Consumer Electronics Show, ISPCon, Game
  Developers Conference, Macworld Expo, Direct Marketing
  Association, business groups.
  
* Coordinates monthly speakers for the Silicon Valley Linux
  Users Group.
  
* Designed Web sites: tgeller.com, suespammers.org,
  openppc.org, popcomputers.com, spamcon.com, bandwidthpr.com.


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OTHER SKILLS

* Computer: Mac and Linux administration, Internet design and 
  deployment, most common graphic and office applications, 
  FileMaker Pro database development.

* Languages: English, Esperanto; some Dutch, French and Russian.

* Other: Bachelor of Music in Composition (cum laude);
  Member, American Federation of Musicians #6 (trombone and voice).

* Keywords: Public relations, P.R., corporate communications,
  writing, editing, marketing, business development,
  entrepreneur, Linux, Unix, email, spam, embedded systems,
  open source, law, legislation, litigation, public speaking.