As long as we are talking about new gigs…
In August I left the cruise line company (and dodged a pair of bullets). In
November I started at Ring (Amazon) in the SOC and was there through the
account takeover debacle of December. (I’ll explain that one of these days.)
Tomorrow is my last day at Amazon and Monday is my first day back in the
military-industrial complex. I’m not sure what I will be working on because
they can’t tell me - and if they could tell me…well, you know the joke.
Working inside the AWS cloud has been an experience, and I have more respect
for the capabilities of the cloud. Learning it though is like a whole new way
of grokking enterprise computing. I think we all started with discrete servers
in racks, and then learned about virtual servers, but this is !servers in vast
unseen services capabilities. Unless you are a millennial who grew up with it,
it takes awhile to understand the new paradigm.
On Mar 12, 2020, at 8:47 AM, Heather Kilbourn <kilbo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I mentioned in the virus thread I have a new job, and I’m happy to say that
after over 3 years of not working my new job is as a Technical Account
Manager at WordPress VIP for Automattic!
https://automattic.com/work-with-us/technical-account-manager/ ;
<https://automattic.com/work-with-us/technical-account-manager/>
I’ll be supporting enterprise clients as the bridge between tech and sales,
and it appears to be very similar to the client relationship model we had at
digital.forest, so it’s a very good fit.
Everybody works remotely, so I’ve been busy getting my home office set up,
reading through the training materials, and doing Zoom calls with my new
colleagues. That I somehow managed to land a remote-only job right before a
global pandemic is not lost on me and I’m counting my lucky stars every day.
The hiring process took five(!) months and included responding to sample
trouble tickets, documenting a client interaction, and a mock call with a
fictional client.
So if any of y’all host @ WordPress, you have an inside gal now. :-)
Heather