After graduating from Stanford Law, he was selected for a clerkship on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for Judge Dennis Jacobs.
[2] In July 1998, Woodside joined the Los Angeles office of McKinsey & Company,[2] where he led strategy, technology, and media projects with Shona Brown, Michael Wolf, and Byron Auguste.
He left McKinsey in 2003 to join Google, where he led sales operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
[4] In May 2012, Woodside succeeded Sanjay Jha[5] as CEO of Motorola Mobility, where he served until April 2014.
[11] He got 2nd place in his age group, which qualified him for the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii in October 2017.