Crystal Williams is a producer, designer, writer, technologist, open source organizer, and native Texan.
Previously, she served as Principal and VP Consulting for WorkHabit, Inc., a Drupal-focused Technology company. Prior to Workhabit, she was the Director of Technology Projects for Warner Bros. Records in Burbank, California. Previously, she managed web, print, and identity projects for Sisu, Inc. after cutting her teeth as a senior production designer for Raincity Studios, a Vancouver-based web development and design firm specializing in Drupal development and community websites. She began her career in consumer electronics marketing, doing design, strategy, copywriting, and sourcing some of the most bizarre tchotchkes imaginable.
As a community activist, she has done everything from coaching teenage girls softball in Arlington, Texas and Sierra Madre, California to volunteering for The Hollywood Hill in Los Angeles to co-organizing Barcamps in Vancouver, Shanghai, and Los Angeles, as well as DrupalCamp Seattle, DrupalCampLA, DrupalCampLA 2008, and CloudCamp Seattle..
Crystal holds a dual B.A. in Economics and Media Studies from Scripps College in Claremont, California. Her thesis, “When Piracy is Good for Software Companies – And How Versioning Became Better” was a game theory analysis of pricing and copy protection strategies in the consumer software market.
She currently lives in San Francisco, CA. She spends a lot of time thinking about: Process, Good Information Architecture/Usability, Design in our every day lives, new and emerging communication protocols, lockpicking, music, Food (and food and food and food), The Red Sox, her family in Texas, friends all over, travel, and what’s next.
She has never bought a couch, owns 20+ houseplants, and admires Banksy, Joan Didion, Molly Ivins, Bernie Lubell, and Kim Gordon.
Skype: crystalrwilliams
Gtalk: cleverclevergirl–at–gmail.com
AIM: CrystalWorkhabit
You can find me on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Dopplr, Flickr, and http://groups.drupal.org, but you might have to ask me first. I prefer to add only people I actually know, thanks.
