Thursday, March 29, 2007
Welcome
Thursday, March 29, 2007
More to come as I get the time to do things. Right now, check out my resume, if you want.
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About Me
Contact Information
Patrick Madden
75 Washington Ave, Suite 206
Portland, ME 04101
pmadden@marketdecisions.com
Who is this Guy?
I was born in the city of Fall River, Massachusetts around the time that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak released the Apple II+ (now with 48K of RAM)! Fall River is probably best known as the hometown of Lizzie Borden, or if you’re not so gruesome, home to the largest collection of WWII battleships in the world.
I did not stay there long. Instead my family bounced around the New England area, trying out different states in the region. Growing up, I loved sports (particularly the Red Sox and Celtics) and video games. Sounds like just about every boy more or less. But I also remember creating my own computer spreadsheets when I was about 13 years old to track the results of my fake basketball league (where I was the star player of course). That, I assume, is a little unusual.
MBA, University of Southern Maine, Business Administration (2003)
B.S., University of Southern Maine, Business Administration (2001)
When my professional baseball career flamed out at the age of 17 (I had a tough time hitting that high school curveball), it was time to come to the harsh realization that I was not going to be the second coming of Wade Boggs.
Since I was a solidly-above average high school student (but not in a showy kind of way) I did have my pick of non-elite colleges as long as I was willing to pay for them. I ended up picking my college based on it’s proximity to mountains that I could ski, which looking back, is probably not the best way to choose a college. I would not recommend that method to my kid.
However, it turned out ok, and I even decided to stay there an extra couple of years to get my MBA. To this point in my life, the best thing about my MBA is that it allowed me to stay in school for an extra two years.
Survey Research
Senior Research Analyst, Market Decisions, LLC (2003-present)
Research Assistant, Center for Business and Economic Research, University of Southern Maine (2000-2003)
Being a solidly above average student (but not in a showy kind of way) and in the graduate program at USM afforded me the opportunity to become a graduate and research assistant at CBER. Less than a decade removed from the experience and I can’t even tell you what CBER actually did, but I remember that it 1) gave me my first introduction to survey research and primary data that was collected specifically for things WE wanted to know, and 2) gave a data geek like me access to cool toys like SAS.
Of course, being a graduate student living off your credit cards and getting paid like an indentured servant can only last so long and eventually I was forced to get a real job, as they say. It feels like an eternity ago, but 2002-03 was also a bad time for job hunting, as we were coming off the tech/internet “boom” of the late 90’s. It took a while, but after many, many failed job interviews, a company called Market Decisions was desperate enough to hire a young guy with little experience and teach him the survey research ropes.
Give Me The Rock
Creating my own fake basketball leagues on computer spreadsheets naturally led to fantasy sports, which led me to creating my own spreadsheets for fantasy sports, which led me to the world of blogging for fantasy basketball. I created my own now-defunct blog back in 2004, but joined forces with Nels at Give Me The Rock in 2005 to form the MBA power-blogging duo at the longest running fantasy basketball blog in the world. Everyone needs their niche.
House Projects
2005 was a petty busy year for me. I got promoted, got married and bought a house. A nice, old house that looked like it was last updated in 1985 and need a lot of TLC. A combination of ambition, cheapness, and ignorance led me to take on many home projects myself. Most have been successful and most have gone over budget and way over time. But the results, while painful at times, have been decent.
You mean like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills?
It’s too bad that Jared Hess and Jon Heder turned out to be one trick ponies, because that was an awesome movie.
Patrick Madden
75 Washington Ave, Suite 206
Portland, ME 04101
pmadden@marketdecisions.com
Who is this Guy?
I was born in the city of Fall River, Massachusetts around the time that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak released the Apple II+ (now with 48K of RAM)! Fall River is probably best known as the hometown of Lizzie Borden, or if you’re not so gruesome, home to the largest collection of WWII battleships in the world.
I did not stay there long. Instead my family bounced around the New England area, trying out different states in the region. Growing up, I loved sports (particularly the Red Sox and Celtics) and video games. Sounds like just about every boy more or less. But I also remember creating my own computer spreadsheets when I was about 13 years old to track the results of my fake basketball league (where I was the star player of course). That, I assume, is a little unusual.
Education
MBA, University of Southern Maine, Business Administration (2003)
B.S., University of Southern Maine, Business Administration (2001)
When my professional baseball career flamed out at the age of 17 (I had a tough time hitting that high school curveball), it was time to come to the harsh realization that I was not going to be the second coming of Wade Boggs.
Since I was a solidly-above average high school student (but not in a showy kind of way) I did have my pick of non-elite colleges as long as I was willing to pay for them. I ended up picking my college based on it’s proximity to mountains that I could ski, which looking back, is probably not the best way to choose a college. I would not recommend that method to my kid.
However, it turned out ok, and I even decided to stay there an extra couple of years to get my MBA. To this point in my life, the best thing about my MBA is that it allowed me to stay in school for an extra two years.
Survey Research
Senior Research Analyst, Market Decisions, LLC (2003-present)
Research Assistant, Center for Business and Economic Research, University of Southern Maine (2000-2003)
Being a solidly above average student (but not in a showy kind of way) and in the graduate program at USM afforded me the opportunity to become a graduate and research assistant at CBER. Less than a decade removed from the experience and I can’t even tell you what CBER actually did, but I remember that it 1) gave me my first introduction to survey research and primary data that was collected specifically for things WE wanted to know, and 2) gave a data geek like me access to cool toys like SAS.
Of course, being a graduate student living off your credit cards and getting paid like an indentured servant can only last so long and eventually I was forced to get a real job, as they say. It feels like an eternity ago, but 2002-03 was also a bad time for job hunting, as we were coming off the tech/internet “boom” of the late 90’s. It took a while, but after many, many failed job interviews, a company called Market Decisions was desperate enough to hire a young guy with little experience and teach him the survey research ropes.
Fantasy Sports
Give Me The Rock
Creating my own fake basketball leagues on computer spreadsheets naturally led to fantasy sports, which led me to creating my own spreadsheets for fantasy sports, which led me to the world of blogging for fantasy basketball. I created my own now-defunct blog back in 2004, but joined forces with Nels at Give Me The Rock in 2005 to form the MBA power-blogging duo at the longest running fantasy basketball blog in the world. Everyone needs their niche.
House Projects
2005 was a petty busy year for me. I got promoted, got married and bought a house. A nice, old house that looked like it was last updated in 1985 and need a lot of TLC. A combination of ambition, cheapness, and ignorance led me to take on many home projects myself. Most have been successful and most have gone over budget and way over time. But the results, while painful at times, have been decent.
Skills
You mean like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills?
It’s too bad that Jared Hess and Jon Heder turned out to be one trick ponies, because that was an awesome movie.
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