Andrew
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    Age: 25

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    About Me I am the COO for ONEsite. I manage the day to day operations of the development and production teams. I've been here since the early days of ONEsite developing ONEsite's software and strategy. I architected the .ONE platform and am thrilled with how things have progressed and where we stand. Lot's of exciting things are under way!
    Position: COO
    Favorite Projects: Chat in Interactive Media Player; Blog system; Web services architecture; Database driven presentation layer; New Widget architecture; oneSQL architecture
    Favorite Experience: Call me crazy, but I actually enjoy the grind of bringing a large project to completion. I worked an insane amount of hours during some of our earlier projects and loved every minute of it! Well, almost every minute...
    Hobbies: Programming, Reading, Eating Sushi, Bowling, Transcendental Meditation

    Shaking up the Video Game Business

    Friday, December 16, 2005, 04:55 PM CST [Gaming]

    The New York Times has an interesting article about a former executive of Electronic Arts who is now acquiring interests in game developers to check the power of the publishing behemoths. John Riccitiello and his venture capital firm Elevation Partners have bought controlling stakes in Bioware and Pandemic Studios. Their goal is to create a video game company whose creative divisions operate individually but also share some business operations and use their combined strength to gain leverage against the publishers.
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