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Nicholas Tang is Senior Director of Operations at Community Connect Inc., a leading provider of online communities. For over 6 years, Nicholas has been managing the infrastructure that enables over 20 million CCI users to enjoy the site's free personal pages, forums, news, chat, instant messaging, games, promotions, and online events. He manages hree teams in the company, covering the Systems, Database, and IT functions. At CCI, Nicholas has been responsible for managing technology across all facets of the company, including security, storage, networking, and computing. He has led initiatives to improve performance and scalability, reduce costs and ime to production with virtualization technologies, and manage costs with a best-of-breed mixture of commercial and open source solutions. With over 10 years of industry experience, he brings a unique mix of broad-ranging technical knowledge, project planning and management, and business management experience to the table. Before CCI, he led systems teams at a diverse set of companies spanning several fields, including CondeNet, Kozmo.com, and R/GA Digital Studios. Nicholas has been a speaker at conferences including Computerworld's Storage Networking World and the Infoworld Executive Virtualization Forum and has been featured in multiple articles and publications, including the New York Times and CIO Magazine. | 