Changes...

jrubino — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:53:05 GMT

It has been a long time since I have blogged about my life at Microsoft, in fact it has been about a year. At that time I announced I was moving back to NY. Today I am announcing a change in my role at Microsoft.

After 42 months of being an Architect Evangelist in Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism group, I am moving on. Effective July 1^st, I will be taking on the role of Global Account Technology Specialist for JPMorgan Chase. While I am looking forward to the challenges that lie ahead, I am sadden to leave the DPE and the Architect Evangelist Role I love so much.

I enjoyed being an evangelist and it is a great job. You learn about all the latest and greatest technologies Microsoft has to offer and you introduce them to customers in 1 on 1 sessions, presentations and through other means like blogging. Granted, I was never very good at blogging :-). What I was good at was the 1 on 1 sessions and creating good working relationships with my customers.

That brings me to my new role. I was selected for this new role because of my ability to create good working relationships with my customers. This is a sales role. A first for me. I have been a technologist all my career, so this is a change. I believe a change for the better. I guess time will tell. That's it for now. I will keep you posted.

Moving back to NY...

jrubino — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:33:52 GMT

Due to personal and professional reasons, this weekend I will be moving back to New York. Professionally, being back in New York will allow me to support my customers more effectively. It will also get me back to one of the financial services centers in the US. This is a big, but necessary change for me and though I am sad to leave beautiful Virginia, I am eager to start my new life in NY.

As you can imagine, I have been very busy these past weeks with organizing this move as well as dealing with the end of fiscal year work here at Microsoft. Because of that, I have been very lax on my blog posts. I am back and will be posting often very shortly. There is a lot of good things on the horizon that I want to keep my friends, colleagues and customer aware of, so stay tuned.

Now back to work and packing! Argh!

Joe Rubino : Life at Microsoft

Changes...

Moving back to NY...