I haven't been making a lot of entries of late 'cause I sliced up my left thumb quite badly on a spinning propeller last week. It's healing well and I can now type through the pain..
Tyrone Willingham just got hired at the University of Washington (go dogs!) and I just got an offer from Siemens/Microsoft. I've accepted and will be a program manager. Working for Siemens as an employee and contracted out to Microsoft. That's the way they do things these days in the world of contracting.
No problem for me as Siemens has a great reputation and I get a very interesting and stimulating job out of the deal. I start January 5th but hope to get in to get paperwork done, office set up and meet some people before then.
Posted by artandscience at December 13, 2004 01:22 PM | TrackBackWell, good for you. Don't forget to post a few dispatches from the world of work for those of us who are outside of it . . .
Posted by: paul at December 15, 2004 10:17 PMDamn it's taken me ages to get around to posting this comment :)
I've been in that kind of organisational menage a trois before and didn't like it. But it sounds intersting enough. Can you mention Program Manager for which team? ;)
I agree with Paul, are you going to compete with Scoble?? :)
Posted by: Gary at December 15, 2004 10:49 PMIt's hush-hush so I don't think I should be writing about the job or Microsoft per se. Unfortunately. But I'll be in a better position to comment on Scoble's blog.. :>
Looks like a great opportunity and they seem like a nice bunch of people.
But I think I may have to leave my Powerbook at home.
Posted by: stefan at December 16, 2004 01:24 PMI'm in discussions to get back into Corporate life myself and I am not looking forward to giving up the Powerbook to go back to Windows and Microsoft Project...and knowing the UK it'll probably still be Project98!
Posted by: Gary at December 17, 2004 09:32 AM