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About

About Me

Hi!  My name is Dan, and I make pretty things.

I’m 35 years old, living in Vienna, Austria.  Here’s a short summary of what I’ve been up to:

• 1999 – Graduated the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY with a Bachelors of Music degree – Vocal Performance
• 2000 – In between singing gigs, I started doing client acquisition/business development with an internet startup, bla-bla.com
• 2001 – On 9/11 I was living in Manhattan, and experienced that truly odd day.  Shortly thereafter I was offered a job in Oxford, UK where I worked as a graphic designer
• 2003 – Returned to the U.S. to start up the American sibling company of the UK parent company I was working with.  This time around as the National Recruitment Manager
• 2006 – Served as Director of Marketing at flix55.com, a video sharing site working closely with a WLNY, a major NYC television outlet
• 2007 – Returned to Europe with my wife, settling in Vienna
• Current – Working as an independent digital media consultant

As you can see, I’ve worn a number of hats over the past 10 or so years, and each position has taught me something unique, which makes for the entire Dan Taylor experience.  I’m a ‘learning through doing’ kinda guy, and I see no project too big to take on.

The goal of turnthescrew.com, which originally started out as an a place to host my images, is simply an outlet for any and all creative work, social media and all things digital news, things I find amusing, or anything else that might be of interested to like minded folk.  In addition, it’s an experimentation platform, which means I try out a lot of ideas here, and pass the best practices on to my clients.

The Long Version

I grew up in a small town in Upstate, NY, went to University in Rochester, NY to study Opera singing, figured out it wasn’t really for me, and then landed my first ‘real job’ during the first internet boom at a company titled bla-bla.com. Even though the name was strange, I learned a ton of valuable information, not only about the business of ‘teh internetz’, but about business, specifically sales and marketing, from the good folks at bla-bla.

I’ve lived in Glens Falls, NY, Rochester, NY, Toronto, New York City, Oxford, UK, Philadelphia, PA, Mineola, NY, and Vienna, Austria. Some might say that being on tour all summer would qualify as a separate address, but I discount this.  I enjoy traveling, but don’t do as much of it as I’d like.

My interests are so varied that I could talk your head off about each topic, but the main things I like to do outside of the work related sphere would include making person video projects, photo projects, skiing, and playing video games (although, technically – that’s part of one of my consulting jobs).  I’ve also been known to lay down a groovy deep house set, or two, and like to pick up the 4 and 6 stings once in a while.  I studied cello as a kid, and would like to start playing it again.  And last but not least, as an American living in Europe, it’s just to hard not to sample some of the finest beers on earth.

I’m currently working with both MindMeister.com and fatfoogoo.com on various marketing initiatives.  If you’re interested in what I can do for you, please fill in the contact form below, and I’ll get back to you shortly.

All the best,

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