01 April 2008

I’ve finished up at Microsoft and heading to PIXAR.

 

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was excited to be promoted to a Product Manager role on the Rich Client Platform Team (Silverlght/WPF). Well, whilst I was at SxSW I bumped into some folks at PIXAR whom I shared a few beers with.

Cut a long story short, I jokingly asked if there were any positions gong and they stated yes, with that I’ve had ongoing chats and decided to take my leap of faith and branch out into 3D modeling & animation with a new role as a Junior Creative Modeller.

Given its my core passion, I felt it was the right thing to do, and whilst I’ll miss my time here at Microsoft, I think one can all agree this is a  company well worth exploring and you’re an idiot if you believe anything anyone blogs about on April first as clearly this is a fool’s day prank.

As if I’d leave a sweet role working with/on one of the hottest products on earth right now.... although PIXAR I am open to negotiation still heheheh.

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# Jef said:

Doh!  I was reading the article and not even thinking it was an april fools joke...

I should have known when you mentioned you had a time window to announce the news!

01 April 08 at 12:23 AM
# Rick Turoczy said:

And to think, you could have just wasted more time at SXSW chatting with me. Congrats!

01 April 08 at 12:28 AM
# Rick Turoczy said:

Just noticed the date on this post. Got me.

01 April 08 at 12:38 AM
# kfarmer@microsoft.com said:

Except that this was posted before midnight Redmond time...

01 April 08 at 1:05 AM
# Dale Fraser said:

When I grow up I want to work for Microsoft :)

01 April 08 at 1:52 AM
# Shaoken said:

Congratulations but.. wait a minute, it's april Fools' Day :-)

Nice done ;)

Greetz,

Stéphane.

01 April 08 at 1:59 AM
# Darryl Lyons said:

Seriously though, when do you start??

:)

01 April 08 at 2:17 AM
# Ahmad said:

Hehehehehe.... That was really a nice one man LOL!!!! I was like WAT THE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

01 April 08 at 3:25 AM
# LLiu said:

Heh, you *almost* had me there. :-)

01 April 08 at 5:38 AM
# charles said:

Typical april 1 bs :) every year!

U still up for mt cootha?

01 April 08 at 10:04 AM
# Yuvi said:

Err, the above one was an April fool's as well :P

01 April 08 at 10:10 AM
# Wile1one@hotmail.com said:

I heard on the grapevine that a  Junior Creative Modeller from PIXAR     applied for the vacant Product Manager role on the Rich Client Platform Team (Silverlght/WPF)  A few grapes were somewhat squashed and I think some other ones were left out in the sun...  They were nothing compared to the grapes which actually spoke to me...  mind you they were speaking in binary so it took a really long time to communicate.  Still talking grapes around PIXAR is nothing new.

10 April 08 at 1:57 PM

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About scbarnes

Scott Barnes currently is a Rich Platform Product Manager (WPF & Silverlight). He has been working with Adobe/Macromedia technology for the past 10 years with a main focus specifically on Internet Applications (aka. RIA, Rich Client Technology etc).

Scott first started out as a graphic designer in the late 90’s and over the years developed a passion for programmatic art (Designer + Developer mind). He recently has branched out further into 3D modelling and animation making full use of both his designer + developer mindset.

"..The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man..." - George Bernard Shaw
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