After two and a half years working at MSDN, it's time for me to move on. I joined MSDN to help Sara Williams reinvigorate it. Well, we succeeded. We delivered some cool products along the way (MSDN2 and Ladybug are my favorite two) and we built a stronger team. There's more to do, but things are in good hands: MSDN is staffed with people who really really really care about helping developers succeed. I will miss everyone there a lot, especially the people I worked with closely. Most of all, I will miss both Sara and my partners, Matt Cottingham and Kim Wolk. If you ever get a chance to work with any of them, you should take it.
In fact, I'm not just leaving MSDN, but MS altogether. When my son was born 4 months ago, I was home for 10 weeks, which was the longest I'd been home in 8.5 years. Telecommuting from NH to the West coast - first to LA and then to Seattle - takes its toll. I realized then that I needed to make a change and start investing closer to home.
To that end - and because I think the work they do is very cool - I'm moving to MindReef, a leading vendor of tooling designed to help developers build Web services systems successfully. I'm looking forward to a very short commute, working face to face with smart people every day (esp. Mr. SoapScope), and drilling even deeper into WS technology. After a couple weeks off, I'm starting there in early October.
I plan to keep blogging about XML and Web services. In fact, if anything, expect even more from me as my technology of choice moves from something I apply on my day job to being the center of my day job itself!
Posted
Sep 23 2004, 09:29 AM
by
tim-ewald