Jay Allen Joins Six Apart

When it rains, it pours. I have the pleasure to announce that Jay Allen will be joining as a product manager for Movable Type. Yes, Jay will be moving back to California from Hungary to work for Six Apart -- a big move that we're incredibly excited about. Jay has been a great supporter of Movable Type, Six Apart and us personally for the past three years (today is the three year anniversary of Movable Type!) and I'm glad to consider him a friend.

The work that Jay did with MT Blacklist just showed us that he wanted to take the initiative to work on a problem that was affecting a great number of our users. He took the lead to find a creative solution and spent countless hours working on versions 1.0 and 2.0. When we awarded him first prize in our Plugin contest a couple months ago, we knew that we needed him to fill a role at Six Apart. Luckily for us, we've been fortunate in hiring some great people recently and because of that I believe that Jay realized that we were really entering the next stage of the company.