I'm 5 today...5 years at Microsoft
I've been at Microsoft for exactly 5 years today. Doesn't time fly!
What have I done since I started? Some highlights/history:
- Joined as an i- contractor to deliver technical events to students
- Built Project Hurricane - a social network/community thing before social networks were in fashion.
- Ran the Imagine Cup and coached teams to go to Japan and India worldwide finals. 5 out of the 6 students are now MSFT employees in product groups and MCS
- Became a Developer Evangelist looking at Silverlight and WPF technologies, part of the launch team for Windows Vista and Office to developers. (Presented in an old plane in winter...cold!)
- Moved over to Marketing as an Audience Marketing Manager with my old team. Done some cool stuff with Dreamspark, Imagine Cup, Student events, Channel 8 and more
- Been to 1 PDC, 2 Tech.Eds, 1 IT Forum, 2 MGXs, 2 TechReadys, 3 IC Worldwide finals, 3 role summits, 1 BillG PR event, other random Redmond visits and done hundreds of events, written a tonne of blog posts, travelled to every city in the mainland UK (I think).
- Made some really close friends
- Met my g/f and wife to be
Who knows where I'll go next?!?! ;-)