Crystal Williams

2007 was one hell of a ride, 2008 might even surpass. I don’t even know where to begin with this, so out with it…

February 8th will be my last day at Sisu.
February 12th will be my first day as Director of Technology Projects for Warner Bros. Records..

This past year with Sisu has been fantastic. I’ve had the chance to work on some amazing projects for The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Myspace, Wasserman Media Group (creating sites for professional athletes such as Tracy McGrady, JJ Redick, and Freddy Adu), the Hallmark Channel, Fonality, Hearst Magazine Mobile sites, Sony, Veoh, Zannel, and Nonesuch Records. And I’ve had the opportunity to do it with 5 of the best coworkers imaginable. Guild, Coleen, Dave, Kevin, and Matt – thank you all. Seriously. I’m going to miss seeing all of you every day, there is no replacement for friday status meetings, and I’d better be invited to the 6th year Sisuversary party, punks.

Looking forward to my new life in Burbank, I’m really drawn to this position for a number of reasons. I’ll be joining up with a crack team of solidly cool geeks who have some great ideas about how to save the music industry. We like music, we’d like to keep it around. The technology team at WBR is super progressive, relying on open-source technologies wherever possible, and pushing for some innovative ways to keep money coming in and going to artists. All artist sites are being built on Drupal, an open-source content management system that I have some experience with.

As a music, econ, and tech geek with an unnatural interest in social networks and a nearly two-year history with the Drupal Community, this is a really exciting opportunity to combine my passions and go out and build something. It’s a challenging place to be right now, but that’s the way I like it.

I’m probably going to need bigger sunglasses, though.