So after a 7 month hiatus, a hard drive crash, and a job change, I’m finally getting back on blogging. I think…
I got a lot of new stuff to talk about – most of which revolves around my decision to leave iStreamPlanet after 10 years (and 3 weeks). My experience at iStream was incredible at the very least. From sitting on a milk crate in a tiny room with 2 other guys, trying to build solutions for clients who had no idea what DRM was, much less why they needed it, then 9 years later seeing the company get its first round of multi-million $ funding from Intel Development Corp.
In June I decided to join up with Reality Engineering, a small but stable software and content provider for dental patient education who’d moved their development operations to Las Vegas. The CEO, Lee Allen, is one part visionary, one part realist, one part salesman, and ten parts passion and it’s that passion that grabbed me. It hasn’t been all chocolate and roses, but in just five short months, we’ve managed to put together a fantastic team, get the new, streamlined version of the core product out the door, and get started implementing a scrum environment.
I’ll talk more about it in the next few months. I’m still teaching at UNLV and still doing a few freelance gigs (now that I’m in senior management, I didn’t want my skills to get rusty), but in the same time, Jen’s MadeByGirl and her new Cocoa & Hearts businesses have both taken off like a rocket, so I’ve had to spend a lot of time working on that too.
So obviously my blog has changed. Yea, part of the drive crash left me with a frustrated effort to rebuild both content and template so I decided to scrap all the teaching materials I used to have posted, refocus on the blog, and re-build a new theme. This one is a variation that uses concepts from Shaken Grid Lite but I suspect I’ll change quite a bit more of it over the next few weeks so it’s going to be a “UX-work-in-progress” for a bit.
So I’m back. Yea, I’m back. And I’m not so grumpy anymore.