Someone famous from close to home (Toledo)
Want to know what a good education from a simple local college can lead you to? Ever hear of Jeremy Zawodny? He was born in Toledo, went to BGSU and graduated with a degree in computer science. He worked through various jobs and is now a part of Yahoo’s platform engineering group working as a MySql architect. He is responsible for planning and deployment of Mysql throughout the Yahoo enterprise . I found out about him through his recent article “Pagerank is Dead” He has also been the executive editor of Linux Magazine and is very very well respected in the computing community with many laurels to his name. He is truly the “technologist” that Toledo is looking to attract. I hope I grow up to be like him! 
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Heh. I’ve heard of him. Went to college with him, pilfer bandwith from him. Worked with him @ Marathon Oil. Great guy. Anyone that works with him or knows him is glad they did so.
If Toledo can change their climate, some us “technolgists” might consider staying for more than the couple days a year it takes us to visit our families.
He went to St. John’s, BTW. But I like him in spite of that.
Comment by Dan Isaacs 12/6/2003 @ 9:13 pm