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Meet the people
who make Tripod
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Geoff Strawbridge
Director of Membership Services
[email protected]
Just when we were wondering why the Membership staff was being so
well behaved and getting so much work done, we discovered that
Geoff was member of the Clay Pigeon Club during the two years he
lived in Scotland earning his Masters in management, economics,
and politics at St Andrew's University. Two years of yelling
"pull" very loudly and then shooting a 12-gauge shotgun at flying
objects is about the best preparation one can get for dealing with
the fine folks in Membership! But Geoff knew what he was getting
in to. He started his career with The NetMarket Company (now a
part of Cendant Corporation) and had our CEBo and various other
Tripodians sleeping on the floor and in the vault of NetMarket's
offices back in 1993.
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Amber Braman
Membership Analyst
[email protected]
Amber has a degree in Biology — which is, of course, why she's in the Membership
Department. Amber claims she enjoys a challenge, which would
account for her switching from biology to marketing to membership, and for her
living in Vermont, working in Massachusetts, and having her son in
day-care in New York. Amber dutifully lists spending time with
her husband and son as her primary interest, although she admits
they would probably say that talking on the phone occupies most
of her time.
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Mike Merrill
Membership Customer Service Manager
[email protected]
Mike "Membership" Merrill is a former brewmaster who is almost as
finicky about his coffee as he once was about his beer: Refusing
to submit to the formulas of any of the many fine coffee shops
here in Williamstown, he brings his own enormous thermos to work
every day. This seems to give him the power (despite what, around
here anyway, are considered to be his advanced years) to
accomplish everything from mastering scenic photography, to
caring for multiple dogs, to making it through childbirth classes
without fainting all the time.
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Mike Marcella
Membership Assistant
[email protected]
Mike is the second addition to Tripod's collection of membership
assistants named Mike whose last names start with the Letter M
(we hear that they're going to increase in value dramatically
over the next five years). He claims that it was the money which
lured him away from a career in childcare to work for Tripod, but
just how different is being an adventure base counselor for
children with behavior disorders from managing Tripod members?
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Neil Bibbins
Membership Manager, Abuse
[email protected]
Neil is reputed to have spent his childhood sometime in the latter
half of the 20th century (Hint: He remembers the sixties.) After
learning the second half of the alphabet--including vowels--by the
age of fourteen he gradually graduated from college and then went
to work as a construction worker, bike mechanic, community
developer, and part-time computer geek. His major aspiration is to
get his 1976 BMW motorcycle running before he gets angry and burns
it. Neil's hobbies include teaching his dogs to speak out of turn;
and his Big Life Questions are: "Why was Bill Clinton wearing a
blue dress?" and "Is the Hair Club For Men for real?"
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Eric Bailey
Membership Assistant
[email protected]
Where are the clowns? Don't ask Eric. He thinks they're scary and refuses to
include them in his long-running RPG campaign. Eric weighs in as a lifelong Berkshires
resident (despite ever-present cold steering wheels in the winter),
an Eagle Scout, an avid trumpet player, and a non-fan of Puff Daddy.
Eric dreams one day of converting a minivan to its 1970s glory, complete with
bean-bag chairs in the back.
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Amy Johns
Membership Assistant
[email protected]
Amy is another Williams graduate unable to escape the gravitational pull of Williamstown.
Previously, she worked at Yellowstone National Park
as a volunteer, for seven summers. She denies ever feeding the bears. In Williamstown, she seeks
swimming holes, berry patches, and cliffs off of which to jump (we can only hope into the water). Amy
just bought a 1973 Dodge van, complete with bed, and has been busy working to make it hippie-like.
Maybe she and Brian ([email protected]) can start a van club.
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