Happy New Year — Microsoft MVP & New Location
I was just reminded this morning by an old colleague that Ed K. and I have been slacking tremendously since we haven’t had any blog posts since November :) I want to wish everyone a happy new year and share some news. Last week, I moved back to Dallas and will be working remotely from home. It’s new for me so I’m still trying to get into the groove of things. Scott Hanselman’s latest posts about being a remote worker have been extremely interesting to me.
It’s been a little hectic in the last few weeks. I needed to wrap a few things up before I went on vacation at the office. Also, we had our final NJ .NET User’s Group meeting for the year which turned out to be terrific. Since it’s a new year, we also had announced a new leader — Jess Chadwick. It has been a privilege to serve as a leader of the group for 2007. I really want to thank Jess, Tony, Ambrose, Kathleen, and Peter for the help during the year in leading the group. I’m looking forward to rejoining the Dallas .NET community and also the newly formed Dallas VSTS Users Group (How exciting!)
From there, there was: packing, cleaning, movers picking up, cleaning, driving, getting the new place, movers dropping off, unpacking, getting new furniture, setting up the new office, having out-of-town guests, whew… and getting ready to host a party!
After waking up from a very long but extremely fun night on New Year’s Eve (which ended up being my housewarming party as well since all of my friends were in town,) I was surprised to find an e-mail in my inbox:
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award!
Oh I was/still am pretty excited! :) It’s exciting to be working at Infragistics for many reasons. They have been the most supportive company that I have worked for when it comes to being involved in the developer community which is one of the primary reasons I came aboard a year ago. Describing Infragistics as “community-friendly” would be putting it mildly! There’s a total of SEVEN MVPs now at Infragistics which is a testament to the quality of people that I have the privilege to work with every day. We really do have the best people in every department around the company.
There are so many people who really have been extremely helpful to me. I want to specifically thank Ambrose for his mentorship as my coach for the majority of 2007. He has been very influential in my career and cared about my professional growth. Thank you! So many people deserve Kudos: Ed K., Jess, Tony, Jason B., Peter, Grant, Kathleen, Devin, Josh, Tim, Caleb, Omar, Fraser, Jason T., Chuck, Mel
I’m still working on getting my profile to get it all set up with my information so for now it’s a work in progress: My MVP Profile
All in all, I’m looking forward to the new year and what exciting things are in store both at Infragistics and with my continued involvement with the developer community. It’s going to be an awesome year!
Ed B.
