My Sweet 16th : 16 Sweet years at Microsoft
Today is the anniversary of when I started my career at Microsoft - 16 years!
Here's some ways to represent 16 (thanks to Wikipedia)
| Cardinal | 16 / sixteen |
| Ordinal | 16th / sixteenth |
| Numeral system | hexadecimal |
| Factorization |  |
| Divisors | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 |
| Roman numeral | XVI |
| Binary | 10000 |
| Octal | 20 |
| Duodecimal | 14 |
| Hexadecimal | 10 |
As I say each year, I've been really lucky, as I have done lots of different things, been exposed to different parts of the business, and seen it from different parts of the world. I have been very fortunate to work with some amazing people within Microsoft, as well as some outstanding organisations & people outside of Microsoft.
Let's look back again, at what I've done
| May 1991 | Sep 1993 | Microsoft Canberra, working as a Systems Engineer |
| Sep 1993 | Aug 1994 | Microsoft Corp, @ Executive Briefing Center |
| Aug 1994 | Oct 1995 | Microsoft Corp, in the Advanced Technology Group, working on Interactive TV |
| Nov 1995 | May 1997 | Microsoft Australia, MSN Technical Director |
| Jun 1997 | Jun 1999 | ninemsn CTO |
| Jun 1999 | May 2001 | Microsoft Region, Digital Media dude |
| May 2001 | now | Microsoft Australia, Developer & Platform Evangelism |
Now I have a large team of evangelists, which includes some experienced folks, as well as some new guys who are getting up to speed very nicely. I find a large part of my role these days is explaining what we do to the rest of Microsoft. Seems some folks don't quite understand what it is we do.
The future continues to be bright. I still love the job, I still believe in what we're doing, and I continue to get inspired by the impact we have. Just look at the buzz from the Popfly news - that just rocks!
Time to go make some mashups and celebrate
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