Embracing my Program Management side

After 4.5 years on the VS Environment / VS Core team, I’ve finally decided to make the switch into Program Management.  Don’t get me wrong, I love testing.  It’s still the ultimate “you broke it and I’m telling.”  But, I can’t resist the temptation of the driver’s seat anymore.

I recall being told that the secret of life is to figure out what you love to do, then get someone to pay you to do it.  And at work, I love nothing more than blogging and interacting with customers.  Therefore, I’m very excited to join the DevDiv Community Team!  Specifically, I’m working on the Developer After-Market Community Solutions Team.

Since today was just my first day, I’m going to hold off on specific responsibilities.  I probably should get my goals / commitments written first.  =)  However, I can tell you that my new role will involve working more closely with you.  And yes, Tip of the Week continues, hopefully with more gravitas than ever before!  (Thanks Stephen Colbert for adding this word to my vocabulary.)

I want to give a shout-out to all those I’ve worked with on the VS Environment / VS Core team.  As I said in my “so long and thanks for all the fish” mail, it’s been an incredible experience to have worked with you all on the Visual Studio environment / shell.  I’m very proud to have worked on thteam for 3 releases of Visual Studio.

For more info, check out my team’s blog and Josh’s intro post to the Developer After-Market Community Solutions Team.

I look forward to hearing from you all about how I can make you more successful with Visual Studio 2005.  Wish me luck in my new role!

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 17, 2006
  Gooooooood luck!!!
• Anonymous
  January 17, 2006
  Yap, viel Glück :]
• Anonymous
  January 17, 2006
  I am going to miss your tips about VS2005. Good luck and thanks for VS stuff :)
• Anonymous
  January 17, 2006
  The tips are going to continue!! Now that I'm apart of the Developer Solutions team, I'm going to make the VS Tips even better!
  
  -sara
• Anonymous
  January 17, 2006
  "you broke it and I’m telling."
  
  Then they'll take revenge by telling what they saw you break in your karate lessons. Or something like that.
• Anonymous
  February 01, 2006
  From one tester-turned-PM to another, welcome aboard!
• Anonymous
  October 30, 2006
  I might have mentioned this before, the second city I feel most at home apart from Melbourne is Seattle....