I think I might have a pulse here

So, I'm back from the dead.

How have things been for you? Hopefully good.

Now I know what people are thinking, "where the hell has he been?"

The answer is working. Right around the time that I stopped blogging I suddenly found myself being thrust into the technical lead role on the contract that I was working on when my boss was moved over to another contract. Now, nothing against my boss, but the two of us have very different styles of doing business. He's more a 'from the hip' kind of guy, where I want to know exactly what tasks are expected of me and an idea of what they are supposed to look like. So, when I got into the leadership role, suddenly I had to figure out what was still left to do on the contract as it came to an end, figure out how to do it, and then do it. All with in a two week period.

Not fun, and at the end of the year, I was looking for a new job. Just fed up with everything I'd been through over the last year. Things started changing though in Jan. Through a friend, who's also a coworker, the brass was informed about how I'd been jerked around in the past by our former VP, how I was getting paid less then he felt I deserved, and how he felt my title was inadequate for the work that I was doing. This resulted in four things

1) I got promoted to System Engineer
2) I got a raise (or, technically, I've been told I'm getting a riase, though I haven't seen anything official yet)
3) I had several high level people go out of their way to tell me how important I am to the company
4) My friend earned some major brownie points with me.

It deffinetly helps to have friends who are willing to stick up for you.

The other big development is that I've been moved from working on contracts over to the company's Technology Forecast product (which my friend happens to be the director of). My new role is basically two fold, one, to write the software report (a report on existing and emerging software technologies) and two, to create modeling and simulation tools based on the tech forecast. The software report should be interesting, but the tool creation is what I'm really excited about. So, 2003 looks like it might just be a good year. Hopefully it doesn't go south.

So what does all this mean for the blog?

Well, it should mean more posts as I start using this as a storage site for links and ideas. I'll also hopefully learn enough to acctually start providing interesting commentary, instead of just posting links with occasional half ass thoughts thrown in now and then.

Ultimetly though, we'll just have to wait and see.

And with that I'll end this little reunion. As always, have fun.

Posted by Matt at February 15, 2003 01:19 PM