Take this job and ...
I have been waiting to make this announcement for about a month now and the time is finally here. I have resigned from my position as Director of IT services at my present company.
Very appropriate that my last day is July 4th – Independence day.
Rock.
(oh yeah - I played a SNG last night and got rocked - 7th place, man I suck)
posted by Sponge at 9:30 PM
2 Comments:
*sobbing*
It wasn't a smooth road, all the projects but we nailed a bunch and made a hell of a team in the end. Most IT projects and teams really stink and we schooled most of them.
Good:
- ASP Set up
- Getting involved in products
- Putting together real costs -- no one did this until you did
- Office move
- T1s
- Gigabit and network segmenting
- Tape jobs and patchwork
- .ffx
- Wiki/WikIT and documentation
- SAS70/DR documentation, you did most of this. Lots of pages.
- App upgrades (stuff I don't know much about)
- Stuff before me like hardware fireall, exchange migration
- Respond stuff, meh
- Oracle 8i -> 9i, RAC, Cluster, Robert and Shawn, certainly a different chapter
- Personnel decisions, listening to us whine, encouraging me to develop or not develop
It was almost 4 years under you and it's the majority of my professional experience. Scary. Hell of a ride, we made some money (not enough), stressed out, got mad, worked late, failed some, won some, were misunderstood, owned things that fell through the cracks, were technical pillars in some areas, lead things to completion, delt with crappy assignments and duties, delt with crappy funding, delt with whining, delt with complaining, delt with users who can't use the "easy" Windows suite, politics, company size increases, company size decreases, watched good people leave for bad reasons, made friends, made enemies, mostly did things the right way, got SAS70 certified and in the end really padded the hell out of the resume because we were all the real deal.
You were a good person to work for, good manager, very patient, more technical than you give yourself credit for, very tolerant of many things, a juggler, a mentor to me who can't take advice, a born leader.
-
C Dill
Wow, interesting news. Moving out of the area? Found a better job in NoVa? What is Jeff going to do if a real hardass boss takes over and actually makes him work a 40 hour week? lol.
Glad to hear you are happy about the decision; they say the grass is always greener and most of the time it turns out to be true!
-Mike
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