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Last week eROI welcomed Rich Nevin, our new Product Manager, to the team. He’s a great guy to have around the office, and we’re excited to introduce him to you.

eROI: What do you do here?
Rich: I am the Product Manager for all eROI software products and services.

eROI: What did you do before?
Rich: Most recently I built a personalized children’s book company – a mash-up of a web-driven personalization interface, children’s picture books/content, and on-demand book publishing. Behind that I have a pretty varied (I like to call it “dynamic”) career, like: driving product development for a video-based e-learning company; creating a sales/marketing team for a medical device company while developing a medical device; sales engineering big streaming media deals with a little company called Enron; knowing way too much about optical microlithography and its implementation in a high-volume semiconductor manufacturing environment.

eROI: So far, what’s the coolest thing about working at eROI?
Rich: It’s an easy answer – the people. I think having smart, motivated people excited to create and deliver greatness is pretty cool.

eROI: What do you feel that you’ll bring to your team?
Rich: Having been on the customer side for these products and on the development side of other (reasonably similar) software products, I think I have a unique perspective and skill set that I hope can help make these products great.

eROI: What was your first job?
Rich: During a teachers’ strike in high school, I took a job as a bark spreader. I got in trouble for spreading the bark too quickly, which was a great lesson in “work environments to avoid.”

eROI: What was your worst job?
Rich: Fencing. I used to resurface tennis courts and one summer I had to do a bunch of fence work around some big high school’s courts. Never. Again.

eROI: What were you like in high school?
Rich: I lettered in football, basketball, and chess (yes, I won a few matches at State). Never a cool kid, never a nerd, but a little bit of both.

eROI: Do you have kids?
Rich: Yes. My wife Jessica and I have two kids: Jackson (8) and Addie (6).

eROI: Where are you from?
Rich: Though I was born in Michigan, most of my growing up was in a tiny town of 4,000 people in Kentucky.

eROI: What’s your favorite thing about Portland?
Rich: It’s just the right size and full of interesting people doing interesting things.

eROI: Where’s the coolest place you’ve traveled?
Rich: That’s a hard question – I love to travel and have lots of favorite places for different reasons.  Our family just went to Brazil in February and had an absolutely amazing time. I still dream about the food in South Korea. But I don’t think anything is prettier that being back country in Banff/Yoho/Jasper.

eROI: What do you like to do when you’re not at work?
Rich: I’m a family guy – my life revolves around friends and family. I coach several sports teams for my kids (baseball, t-ball, soccer) and play soccer and basketball too. I read a lot, am big into music, and rarely turn down a chance to play a ridiculous game (ping-pong, bowling, foosball, darts, ad nauseum) or to have a drink on the porch with friends.

eROI: If you could build a robot to do an everyday task for you, what would it be?
Rich: It would convince my daughter to get dressed in under 35 minutes. EVERY morning.

eROI: What’s something that may surprise us about you?
Rich: I learned to ski in Kentucky. Yes, snow ski.