After 15 years at my former company, it was time to move on to a new position.  So I took a little time off to spend the summer with my family and now I am actively looking for a new position.  I enjoy work a lot.  I get a lot of satisfaction from delivering a finished product to the customer and seeing that they are pleased with the results.  So I hope that my next position will bring me opportunities to continue to do that and to do it well.

In my previous position, I wore many hats.  I was a Lotus Notes developer for many years and created many applications that were widely used by many people and departments.  I then moved on to the public web site where I worked in search and content delivery.  That transitioned, over time, to becoming the lead for the Google Search Appliance implementation that was undertaken.  I took that on eagerly and developed the solution and deployed it.  It went off extremely well and then I handed off the day-to-day running of it to other team members so that I could focus on other aspects of the web site.  I worked with Java, JSP and TIBCO BusinessWorks and let the team of developers through maintenance processes that saw us execute successful releases every 7 weeks.  Like most solution professionals, I am sure that is a very satisfying part of their job.

In my next adventure, I hope to focus on Enterprise Search and, more specifically, the Google Search Appliance.  I would then like to branch out into the other Google offerings.  There is so much potential behind all of these products and I think they are a great place to put down my laptop and raise a flag with my name on it.

Onward … to new adventures!