Every few weeks, Cornell '95 Faces features a profile of one of our class officers. This week, meet the class webmaster.
Austin, Texas · Arts and Sciences
Every few weeks, Cornell '95 Faces features a profile of one of our class officers. This week, meet the class webmaster.
Austin, Texas · Arts and Sciences
Austin, Texas · Arts and Sciences
Name at Cornell
Chauncy Cay Maddox
Tell us about what you're doing with your life.
Investigating digital [online] technology, database debunking, minor coding and scripting, organizing anything and everything. Being green in Austin. Avid foodie and epicurean. Yoga. Singing, dancing, music, painting, travel, cooking, walking and hiking with my husband and dog, and drinking lots of Tea!
What are your duties as class officer and what have you enjoyed about the job?
I am the Class webmaster, which became very streamlined with Cornell's transition from separate alumni websites to a templatized format called CornellConnect. The nice thing about this transition? We have persistent links to all other Cornell Alumni sites and resources. The bummer? It's kind of, well, boring.
So as our Class Officer team has evolved over the past three years and added committees with the support of (amazing!) council members we've morphed into a more modern digital media relationship with Social and Communities roles. Our website is a great springboard to cultivate our connections with fellow alumni socially on Facebook, Twitter, and the Faces blog!
What advice would you give to a student starting at Cornell this year?
I do CAAGH interviews for high school candidates and I always tell them to be yourself, be prepared to meet all kinds of people and learn more outside the classroom than in it. (And careful of those chairs at the library, zzz...)
How has your time at Cornell influenced you since you graduated?
I've lived and worked all over the world. Starting in NYC, with an alumnae connection. I was picked out of a stack of candidates who I'm positive had more relevant experience than I did at the time. My new boss said, "It doesn't matter what you've done, I know you'll get more done than anyone else in that pile and you'll do it better - or try like hell to!" NYC, London, Tokyo, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Houston, Dallas to Austin - and that's just where I've lived and worked, not the travels in between. It's been an adventure!
What random or surprising encounters with Cornell or Cornellians have you experienced since you left?
Running into a sorority sister at a job interview a few years after graduating. I worked at the company, she was interviewing, I had to quietly advise her to take another job - that company was awful! I left a few months later and started my career that I love. She was happy at the other gig and thanked me. Whew!
