Background
Rich Julius was born in Buffalo, New York and was raised in central New Jersey by his stepfather, Don Bloom, the American painter and Guggenheim Fellow.
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Education
He received Bachelor degrees in English, Comparative Literature, and Arts & Ideas from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he later received an Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and subsequently served on the faculty of the Department of English, before his career in Silicon Valley high-technical
Career
He holds both American and Irish citizenship. Silicon Valley
He went on to work at Oracle Corporation in 1993 where he became director of user assistance, and later joined Informix in 1996 as director of knowledge systems At Informix he developed Answers OnLine, an external tech support web site that leveraged visualization software from Perspecta, a start-up venture cofounded by Nicholas Negroponte and other veterans of Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s Media Laboratory, including Lisa Strausfeld.
In 1995 he founded the technical communication program at the University of California Berkeley Extension, where he taught information architecture and digital communication courses.
Specific Impulse
Crimson Consulting
Julius became a partner and VP at Silicon Valley based Crimson Consulting Group in 2007, when Crimson Consulting acquired the Specific Impulse consulting practice. There Julius directed consulting projects for companies that included Cisco, McKesson, Microsoft, Seagate, and Verizon.
News industry
In 2009 Julius became the Chief Technology Officer of DNAinfo.com, a hyperlocal online news agency based in Manhattan, founded and owned by the American billionaire J. Joseph Ricketts. He left DNAinfo in 2011 to co-found iMedia Revenue (Ireland) Limited., a company that sells newsroom software and offers ways to commercialize newspapers" products online, where he serves as Chief Executive Officer. Julius is also the author of the BloggingWrites.com news industry blog.
Achievements
Membership
Rich Julius worked for PeopleSoft in 1992-1993 and was a founding member of the PeopleSoft band, the Raving Daves.
