Although I'm never going to be ready to divulge everything about myself, please check out this space periodically for more clues about the inner workings of my demented mind. :-) You can find info here not just about me, but also about other members, affiliates, and residents of the Freedman Funny Farm (which serves the world from several convenient locations as long as you live in or near New Jersey :-), so please read on.
NEWS FLASH April '99: My web site may have been a real pain to keep up to date in your bookmarks, because IDT purged my original "stuart" account and has disabled the "stuart8" account to which I migrated. (Don't get me started on them!) If you're seeing this, I guess you found me on Geocities. Please bookmark this page now, so that you stay up to date.
This wedding picture replaces the ancient drivers' license picture that I scanned more than a decade ago (which used to grace this page). Beware: I never claimed to be an HTML guru or a wiz with a scanner! (In fact, if you look carefully, the scan of this photo features several bits of dust!) Thanks to my in-laws, who were nice enough to supply me with a new toy, I can show you a few other things as well. Take a look at my PHOTO GALLERY, which features snapshots of some of our near and dear ones, among others! Come back later & make sure to hit Reload if you want to see more as it "develops".
What I will tell you about myself (if you care to read on) is that I currently work for the InfoWorks division of Viacom in beautiful Times Square, where I take care of systems used for providing external Internet information services for Viacom business units. I'm one of the players who make sure that infamous web sites like those for Blockbuster, MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Nick Games & Sports (GAS), Nick Jr., Noggin, Paramount Stations Group, Showtime, Sundance Channel, VH1, and Comedy Central talk to you OK. Before I joined the Viacom family, I used to work for IDT doing technical customer relations for their dedicated (leased-line) Internet service. I also had the pleasure of working in the Boston area for almost a decade during the ascension of the Internet into its current level of prominence. You can still see my joke forwarding handiwork if you look for my name in the search engines. (I had quite a few e-mail addresses back when I was still into Usenet during the years at DG and Interleaf.)
If you'd like to see my resume, it's the best collection of info about myself that's easily browsable...
My wife, Michelle Freedman (nee Michelle Rubin, pictured with me above), attends the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS), where she is a fifth(-and-final!)-year cantorial student. This past fall, she led High Holiday services in Waterbury, CT. Anyone interested in offering her a full-time position as a cantor in a Conservative Egalitarian setting can look at my online version of her resume here (blame me for any formatting/HTML conversion problems) or write to her at mifreedman@jtsa.edu. For a while I had a long (& not very representative) clip of her singing on here, but disk space is tight. I'll try to get some shorter & more varied clips posted sometime before she graduates! (One month & counting!)
My sister, Rebecca Freedman, might be interested in new opportunities doing computer software training work in the NY/NJ area, so please take a look at my outdated HTML version of her resume here or write to her at atlasfree@compuserve.com.
You can find a picture of her husband on the Web here for what it's worth! (He used to be in the San Francisco production of Phantom of the Opera before moving east.) Anyone who wants to give him an opera gig (he's a tenor), please write to Ravil Atlas.
My home away from home synagogue, the Tremont Street Shul in Cambridge, MA, now has a web page!
The synagogue we've been attending a lot lately, Congregation Or Zarua on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, also has a web page.
My buddy Hans Lachman scanned in a cool picture I took of him a few years back. (It's the "James Bond" photo.)
I have been assisting the Zamir Choral Foundation to get their info into a web site. We finally have it up where the world can see it, so please take a look!
I've also been helping my buddy Mark to get his business network set up. Be sure to visit Creative Software Solutions if you need the services of a contract programmer, especially if the work involves Smalltalk or Java.
Finally, I have to tell you a few of my favorite WWW places to visit...
P.S. for those of you who know me: We will probably move again this summer, so stay tuned for a change of address notice!
Last updated 4 May 1999 by
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