A new chapter began in 2008 for me professionally. I recently started my new run as the Director of Professional Services at a data management solutions provider firm called IronBrick. The few weeks I have had into this new venture proved very rewarding and it feels like it is the right decision.
Personally it is the first for me on the “other” side, from a customer’s view point. This journey is having impact on two fronts, for starters. For years, I have created, enjoyed and tolerated vendor/partner relationships. Now I am playing the part from across the table. Strangely for some, this does not have any considerable sort of “newness”.
The larger impact has to do with the use of my skill sets and the pea-body brain. Suddenly I am opened up to an entire world of people out there that are using technologies to do well, different things. Most of them do not sound as “high performance computing” or such, but they are real problems. What they can teach me about their problems is equally as important as to what I can tell them about going the “right way” of solving those problems. It is an incredible two way street.
Working for a place that understands this and has a high bar on “doing the right thing” is very rewarding. The irony is that it took a stone-cold-lead-pipe-lock “cold call” to find this place.
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