Dan Seidman

What a difference a decade makes
1991	2001

Dan is a Senior Software Engineer at , a website optimization and design firm. Fewer clicks. More leads.

Past jobs have been at:

	Global Insight (sold to IHS)
	Colubris Networks (sold to HP)
	Zoom Telephonics (still Zoom!)
	Gold Wire (sold to Intelliden)
	Prospero Technologies (sold to Inforonics and renamed Mzinga (?))
	Delphi Forums (sold to Prospero)
	News Internet Services (disbanded News Corp. division)
	Delphi Internet Services (sold to News Corporation)
	IDX (sold to GE Healthcare)

Dan is married to Ilana Mainelli. They have one son, Teddy (sometimes spelled Teddie, like the peanut butter). Other kin include:

• father Aaron, programmer, trainer and artist
• mother Ruth, who retired from MIT in 2003 after a Hall of Fame career running their science and engineering libraries, and later serving as the libraries' Communications Coordinator
• brother Josh has moved on to the Office of the National Coordinator for HIT after several years as president of the Center for Information Therapy
• sister-in-law Jocelyn Guyer is at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute in Washington, DC
• Teddy's cousins: Ben, Leo and Ryan

Also on this site are some chess problems from actual games Dan played many years ago -- surprisingly, the rules of chess haven't changed since then.

Another hobby is crosswords -- mostly solving, but Dan wrote a couple that were published several years back.

Dan has been an occasional loser in The Washington Post's Style Invitational, a weekly (some would say weakly) creative contest.

As far as religion goes, Dan is a Red Sox fan, with all that entails: poetry and a scrapbook and even a multimedia tribute to the team.

Dan and Ilana are both elected members of the Watertown Democratic Town Committee.

Dan's friend Greg wrote a Java applet to help him with his travel plans:

If you enable active content, you'll know when to leave for New Orleans.