New Changes, New Places, New Faces
So, as some of you may have heard, today is my last day at IBM. It's an AMAZING company, and I can't say enough about the fabulous, bright, driven, and super smart people I have worked with there over the past 2 1/2 years. Working with Anant Jhingran (my manager, and Info Mgmt CTO) and the folks on my team, the Emerging Tech team (David Boloker, I still love your skater sneakers, they beat Rod's cowboy boots out any day), and all the other groups has been truly one of the best work and learning experiences in my professional career. I hope to be working with these guys going forward as well.
We have a great product that will launch soon (IBM Mashup Center - InfoSphere MashupHub is the piece that is near and dear to me) and expect news on that to still be seen here. I have to say, from my (now independent) perspective, it's the most technically solid product out there for enterprise mashups. And I have loved every second driving that and Info 2.0.
But, as opportunities come up, people have to move on. In a few weeks I'll be making the move to Seattle (yikes!) and starting at Microsoft. There I'll be running a team that focuses on web strategy and some other critical elements of community and software development. I am super excited to be helping Microsoft add to their already vibrant developer community, adding in some more open community aspects (with products to match, I hope!), and to be working with a kick-ass team. I'll have more to say on my role specifically in a later post, but stay tuned here for more information.
You guys can all reach me at laurencooney@gmail.com - my computer access will be spotty since I have to turn in my laptop soon, but I'll do my best on twitter, FB, Brightkite, Dopplr (ha! and the list could go on!) to keep you updated.
Get ready for some fun stuff guys, this is going to be an awesome ride! /LC
I'm a bit speechless!
May you only know success and happiness!
Posted by: Joshua Pines | May 02, 2008 at 10:47 AM
I have always enjoyed working with you and think your focus on development communities is second to none. I wish you all the best in your new adventure and can't wait to hear more as your career progresses. It is too bad I don't get more of a chance to work with you as you have an infectious excitement that motivates everyone that comes in contact with you. I wish you all the best.
Posted by: Scott Ryan | May 02, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Lauren,
So now you're with the generous company that allows Tim Heuer to sponsor us at DOSUG (Denver Open Source Users Group) in Denver. We even get to use the great facilities at Microsoft in the DTC. A real tip of the hat to them. Cool to see you getting a new awesome gig with a company that DOSUG really has to thank profusely and is "getting" open source these days.
Posted by: Matthew McCullough | May 02, 2008 at 12:48 PM
Congratulations
Posted by: babul | May 02, 2008 at 01:59 PM
Lauren,
Excited to have you aboard! I've just finished my first year at Microsoft and it has been an amazing time. I look forward to working with you!
Michael
Posted by: Michael S. Scherotter | May 02, 2008 at 03:44 PM
Congrats!! Lauren. I'm sure we'll bump into each other one of these days.
Posted by: Elias Torres | May 02, 2008 at 05:49 PM
LC, you rock. but you know this, so keep doing what you do best.
Posted by: Ryan Boyles | May 05, 2008 at 07:43 AM
I actually kinda missed this will travelling a lot over the past few weeks.
Congratulations on the new position, although I'm sorry we have to lose you... Best wishes for the future, the couple of times we've interacted at IBM you've been great - enjoy, and go do amazing things in your new role.
Posted by: Andy Piper | May 10, 2008 at 11:51 AM