My Job At E-Dak

My Job at E-Dak


Coming to E-Dak, for me, meant leaving a comfortable "big-six" accounting

position to work for a 30-person start-up.  It was a tremendous gamble, but my

choice came down to whether I wanted to continue performing repetitive audits or

face new challenges at E-Dak Dynamics, and in the process help to change the

world.


Working for E-Dak places me at the epicenter of one of the world's most dynamic

industries: telecommunications/ networking.  Although I knew little about E-

Dak's  domain of fiber-optics, I felt strongly that my fate rested in the

trenches of Silicon Valley, in an industry where only the paranoid survive, at a

company with a business model in defiance of Moore's Law.  At the time the term

'information superhighway' hadn't been coined yet, but it would soon become our

driving focus, as data traffic over long-haul networks skyrocketed and the

world's telecommunications providers increased their investment in high-capacity

fiber-optics.  With an innovative product line that provides pavement for the

information highway, E-Dak quenches an unending and growing thirst for bandwidth.


For me E-Dak has meant working at the fourth fastest growing company in Silicon

Valley, with $500 thousand of revenue exploding to over $60 million in four

short years.  It has also meant playing a role in the information revolution.


E-Dak gives me a broad business perspective. It's relatively small size

facilitates a close interaction with department heads.  If had I stayed in

public accounting or gone to a larger corporation, I would not have earned the

same breadth of experience, most likely being limited to working within a single

division or with a handful of accounts.  At E-Dak my scope encompasses all

aspects of accounting and finance across the entire enterprise.  My reports show

the "big picture" and are used extensively by senior management as a map to

chart company progress and plot future growth.


A start-up firm gives me the opportunity to deal with a wide variety of issues.

From its infancy, I have had the chance to help shape E-Dak's growth strategy.

Once proving myself to management, I was given challenges beyond the realm of

debits and credits, including managing a short-term investment portfolio,

implementing an 
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