As many of you know, I am Canadian, and I live in Colorado. After more than 10 years on a variety of work visa's tied to an employer, this September, I finally got my "Green Card". What this means is that I can now work for anyone, doing anything. Not that I've been yearning to flip burgers at a fast food joint, but now I could.

During the last few years - while the green card was "in processing", I did some reflecting, and decided that while I enjoyed what I was doing, I really needed a change of pace, and vertical market. So after receiving the green card, I did a quick job search, and submitted my resignation on October 31st.

Agile to the End…

For the past two weeks I have been working on documenting all my projects and responsibilities. In order to ensure this process went as smoothly as possible, the transition team utilized Scrum to ensure high-priority items were documented during the available time. All in all, the process went as well as could be expected given the circumstances.

My New Home…

Today I started with the new company. At this time, we are still discussing what linkage (if any) there will be between them and my blog, so for now, they will remain nameless. I will say they are wicked-cool, and have been great to work with up to this point.

As for my role, I will still be designing & developing GIS systems using Agile methodologies. I expect that most of the work will be with the ESRI platform, but with a much larger focus on web-based solutions. I'm very excited about this change, and will be sure to post more in the coming days.

Thanks!

As I move on, I also wanted to say thanks to all those I have worked with over the past years (and especially the transition team) - I wish you all the best in the future, and look forward to catching up at conferences.