The personal Website of Andy Schön of New York. Now in its 16th year on the Web.
As is the case for many aspects of my life, a key milestone for my career was my move to New York City in late 1999. Before coming to New York, I used to work in a meat market, a magazine factory, and a chocolate factory near where I was raised.
I'm currently (2009) in my 10th year working at LinkShare Corporation. When I interviewed in late 1999, they were a small but rapidly growing Internet startup in New York's short-lived "Silicon Alley". I started working there as an entry-level Systems Analyst (a.k.a. computer programmer) on January 18, 2000, amidst the peak of the dot-com bubble that began its immense and almost thorough implosion just two months later.
After five and a half years of a quite remarkably robust recovery, thanks to a series of good decisions, we sold LinkShare for 425 million dollars cash to Rakuten, a Japanese Internet company among the 10 largest (by market cap) Internet companies in the world. Today, I continue to work for LinkShare as Vice President of Technology leading our System Development (a.k.a. computer programming) group.
At the moment, I'm on a 3-month leave of absence from that position, for all of July, August, and September 2009.
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as
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Below is a quick visual timeline illustrating my 17-year climb up the corporate Machu Picchu stairs, if you will.
