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Mike Beltzner
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Mike Beltzner is the Director for Mozilla Firefox, the flagship product of the Mozilla Corporation. He manages Firefox front-end development, user experience, and product delivery. He describes his current responsibilities as "delivering Firefox in all its forms to all of its peoples, including guiding the design, directing the implementation, and nervously drinking coffee while hoping it all manages to stick together." Education and Early Employment Beltzner received a BSc, Honours, in Cognitive Science from Queen's University in 1999. A year later, he received a BEd in Computers and Math at Queen's University. From June of 2000 to June of 2005, he worked at IBM as a User centered design practitioner for the Eclipse Java Development Tools and IBM WebSphere Integration Developer. He became user experience lead at Mozilla in July of 2005. In July of 2008, he took over the role of Firefox Director from Mike Connor. Appearances * Web 2.0 Expo 2007: "Embracing the Chaos: Designing For and With Community" * FSOSS2007: "Product and User Experience Design in Open Communities" * WWW2007: "Social Computing Industry Panel," panel moderator Interviews * Interview for Support Firefox Day * Interview with Mozilla Digital Memory Bank * UXDesignCast Interview * Interview with David Tenser Personal life Beltzner lives in Toronto with his wife, Dawn. He likes to play ultimate frisbee and dodgeball, and is one of a dwindling number of fans of Clone High . 
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