Madison Edwards
OOC
| Game | Journal | Portrayed By |
|---|---|---|
| Spent Magazine | maddieson | Claire Danes |
Basic Stats
Full Name: Madison Katherine Edwards
Nickname(s): Maddie
Gender: Female
Age: 29
Date of Birth: November 27, 1978
Zodiac: Sagittarius
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Single
Hometown: Sacramento, California
Residence: Brooklyn, New York
Occupation: Web editor: Spent Magazine
Pet: None
Family
Father: Matthew Edwards (aerospace engineer: Aerojet; b. 1945)
Mother: Denise Edwards (née Grant; retired secretary: Intel Corporation; b. 1948)
Brother: Lucas Edwards (United States Air Force pilot instructor; b. 1973)
Brother: Justin Edwards (works at the NASA Ames Research Center; b. 1976)
Sister-in-Law: Candace Edwards (née Richardson; b. 1976)
Nephew: Alan Edwards (b. 2000)
Niece: Miranda Edwards (b. 2002)
Nephew or Niece: Unknown Edwards (due 2008)
History
Madison has quite literally grown up around computers and science her whole life. Her father, Matthew Edwards, is an aerospace engineeer (a literal rocket scientist) at Aerojet, and her mother, Denise Edwards, was the secretary of a Vice President at Intel Corporation in their Folsom office for twenty years. As the third and youngest child (and only daughter), Matthew and Denise had hopes that their daughter would be a little girly girl, and while she was somewhat girly, she grew up with as much of a love for computers (and, um, blowing things up) as her two older brothers did. In 1989, ten-year-old Madison was found taking apart the family computer and examining the parts. After her father yelled at her, she put the whole thing back together perfectly.
As the internet suddenly boomed into popularity in the 1990s, Madison shifted her attention from the inner workings of computers to the inner workings of websites. She started her own personal website on hotmail in 1996, but quickly moved beyond the basics that hotmail's user-friendly editor provided. After she graduated from high school, Madison attended the University of California in San Diego, majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Visual Arts, computing. In her junior year, she applied and was accepted into the combined Bachelor's/Master's program, an honor reserved for undergraduate Computer Science and Computer Engineering students who maintain a distinguished scholastic record through their junior year. Some might point out that, while keeping her grades so high as well as keeping up with the internships she managed to earn and hold throughout her university career, she neglected her social life. They wouldn't be entirely wrong in that. Madison was very focused on her studies, and had to literally be dragged out of the dorm room by her roommate to do any socializing at all in her early years at UCSD.
To earn some extra spending money while a student, Madison started up her own small online business, Mad Scarves (http://www.mad-scarves.com), to sell scarves and other handknit creations that she makes in her "free time" (her grandmother taught her how to knit at the age of seven, saying that every little girl should know how to make pretty things for herself). Upon graduation from UCSD, Madison went straight from her internship in the San Diego Intel offices to a job as a Component Design Engineer in the Austin location. In 2005, Intel was forced to reduce staff for fiscal purposes. As they try not to outright fire people, they offered very generous severance packages for those who chose to leave. Madison happened to find a better-paying job at the nearby Dell Round Rock campus, so she took the Intel severance package and began working at Dell. However, after working for Dell for two years, she decided that component design, although it was a great job, wasn't for her. She had found herself spending more and more time while at work tinkering around on the internet and coding, particularly CSS, PHP, and XML. Her own small library in her apartment contained a great amount of web design reference books. In the latter part of 2006, she began offering her web design abilities as a freelance designer to individuals and small businesses, and as 2007 began drawing to a close a year later, she began seeking a more full-time job in the web design field. Her search led her to Spent Magazine, where she was hired as Web Editor, head of the small web department. After accepting the job at Spent, she put in her two-week notice at Dell, and began a frantic apartment search in New York.