{"id":1,"name":"Antone Roundy","url":"http:\/\/antone.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/","description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.google.com\/107668887676169066188\">Antone<\/a> is the creator of White Hat Crew, and the owner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geckotribe.com\/\">Gecko Tribe, LLC<\/a>. He's an internet marketer, blogger, and programmer.\r\n\r\nUnlike some people who know what they want to do by the time they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re out of diapers, my path to internet marketing has taken a few twists and turns.\r\n\r\nI don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t recall what I might have wanted to do early on, but by the time I graduated from high school, my interests were mostly in writing and music. I entered college as an English major.\r\n\r\nAfter a year of college, I took two years off, which I spent in Japan. By the time I returned to school, I was thinking more practically (which may or may not be a good thing!), and registered as a math major.\r\n\r\nMath is one of my strengths, but it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take long to realize that math majors spend 99% of their time studying mathematical abstractions rather than the interesting real-world math I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d studied up till that point (hey, it was interesting to me!) And they take very few classes that deal with history, philosophy, the arts, etc.\r\n\r\nNext, I considered majoring in business. I soon decided that marketing was the only area of business that wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bore me to tears. But before I could switch majors, I switched schools and ended up as a Japanese major instead.\r\n\r\nI considered double majoring in Japanese and marketing, but eventually decided it would be better to graduate in whatever major I could complete most quickly. Japanese beat out marketing by one semester.\r\n\r\nAfter graduation, I worked for a few years in the Japanese department of Claris, a subsidiary of Apple Computer, first as a software test engineer, and then as a programmer.\r\n\r\nThe 3 1\/2 years I spent there were good, but then in 1998, it was time for a change. Aside from a few short stints as a contractor, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been working independently ever since.\r\n\r\nToday, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d describe myself professionally as a programmer, internet marketer, and blogger.\r\n\r\nPersonally, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a husband, married since 2002, and father of three.","link":"https:\/\/whitehatcrew.com\/blog\/author\/antone-roundy\/","slug":"antone-roundy","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/705beeef075934af3ac9531a36f8e76efa5e2dd163b167e43eae565e1dd81aed?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/705beeef075934af3ac9531a36f8e76efa5e2dd163b167e43eae565e1dd81aed?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/705beeef075934af3ac9531a36f8e76efa5e2dd163b167e43eae565e1dd81aed?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitehatcrew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitehatcrew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}