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As VP of Project Strategy & Development for the FunWebProduct division of IAC Consumer Applications & Portals (IACCAP), Dorcas Casey oversees the development of Zwinky, an online service that lets users create customizable avatars and explore their virtual world, and Webfetti, an online layouts and graphics customizer for social networking pages and blogs. She also heads up the entire FunWebProducts suite, which includes SmileyCentral, MyFunCards, PopularScreensavers, and CursorMania. In this role, Dorcas manages cross-functional teams of product managers, developers, graphic designers and editors in the development and operation of existing and future products.

Dorcas has extensive experience with Internet-based product development and management. Prior to joining FunWebProducts, Dorcas served as Director of Product Development for The Excite Network, purchased by Ask Jeeves, Inc., where she managed the Web search, chat, message boards and content channels for several Internet properties. Dorcas also worked as the Senior Product Manager at The Excite Network where, among other responsibilities, she directed and maintained the fashion content channel across several of the networks Internet properties.

Earlier in her career, Dorcas served as an assistant English teacher to junior high school students in Japan. She was also an interpreter for foreign visitors at the Nagano Olympics.

Dorcas earned her associates degree in interior design from Parsons School of Design in New York and her bachelors degree in mass communications and urban studies from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

When shes not dressing up her Zwinky and leaving friends Znotes, Dorcas enjoys photography, sewing, traveling and event planning.

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