after a week of becoming part of the PureVideo culture, i am glad i came.
we had a “tech” meeting today consisting of the technolgy team… there are 7 of us: me, doug, and padgett are the development team; mike is the IT guy; jeremy, the project manager; chris, the product manager (i think?); and russ, the VP. i think we have a hell of a team.
i sat there today during the meeting in awe really… a lot of them came from yahoo, specifically Launch, and they’ve all had big time experience in internet and media… mike worked at business.com, and he seems to have his IT stuff down. so anyway, i sat there just thinking to myself “damn, i’ve got so much to learn to catch up…” for the first time in a while i felt overwhelmed… in a good way tho, i think because i am excited about the stuff i’m going to learn…
one of the main differences here is that it really feels like i’m learning business on top of the tech stuff… russ made sure that not only did we have a grips on the technological aspect of things, but also the business side, and how what we do and what we’re going to do is going to affect it all. for once, i’m seeing a connection between my work and business.
back at Xell there was no intermingling of business and tech… it was always so and so handled the meetings and the monies, and we did all the coding. here i get to see it all work together.
another difference i find in myself here is the feeling of solving a problem… at Xell i really found myself continually saying “why can’t we try this” or “there’s gotta be a better way to solve this” or (most detrimentally) “so we’re just making another website…”
well, technically i’m making websites again… but this time, it’s about making them work. having to consider architecture, traffic, throughput, and of course the bottom line (aka money), all of that makes it that much more challenging. and i love it.
you know, i don’t really know where i’ll be going from here… i suppose it’s late for me to really have a crack at application development, as i’d still be entry level in a lot of senses, but i guess i could always do stuff on my own or join an open source project… Lord knows when i’d find time for that tho =/
the only downside to the job is the commute home, which i’m finding new ways around each day… hopefully i’ll have myself a good route to get home… so far getting there has not been too much of a problem.
so, here’s to the new enlightenment i’ve received… hopefully it becomes a bit more permanent this time.
-m