After 3 great years working as a Consultant for Microsoft in the UK, I have decided to make a move and join Huddle.
I started with Microsoft as a MACH graduate just afterI finished university and the three years since then has been a fantastic learning curve and allowed me to really build up some consulting based soft skills, deep technical knowledge of the Windows Azure Platform and given me the chance to work with some truly great people both in the UK and worldwide.
During my time with Microsoft I have been able to work on a number of really great and ground breaking projects from visualising air and water quality around Europe with Eye On Earth and the European Environmental Agency, building up the first large scale (1000+) Windows Azure cloud busting applications along with generation of new patterns around scaling and units of scale within a cloud environment with RiskMetrics and helped to scale out the London Underground’s data feeds by moving their Trackernet data feeds into Windows Azure.
Microsoft has also given me some great opportunities to travel, not just with the MACH graduate scheme where we went “training” (drinking) in Budapest, Istanbul and Dublin but I have been able to travel to present on Cloud computing in Seattle a number of times and also in Amsterdam allowing me to share what I have learned with fellow ‘softies. I have also been given the chance to work with customers all over the world travelling to Norway, Seattle, China and Israel working for various lengths of time helping customers realise the potential of the Windows Azure Platform.
As part of my time at Microsoft I have also been awarded numerous times for my contribution to the company and the wider Microsoft ecosystem winning one of the most prestigious awards in Microsoft the Circle of Excellence – Platinum Club Award whilst still a graduate and getting to meet Mr. Ballmer on a number of occasions, not to mention a jolly to Monte Carlo. Outside Microsoft I was also a medalist in last years BCS Awards for the Young IT Professional of the Year.
So … what's next?
I'm going to be joining Huddle a relativley young company as a full time developer to really focus on my passion for coding and improving my technical skills. Day to day coding and being part of a Kaizen culture at the bleeding edge is something that I have been looking forward to doing for a long time, and the switch from a big corporate to a small startup company will be an eye opening experience. I am really excited to be working with some amazing people including Bandrew, ICooper and BobFromHuddle, and I’m sure the rest of the team will be just as great.
Huddle provides the leading alternative to SharePoint in the cloud, collaboration, document management and social media integration is at the heart of Huddle. Huddle are already being used by numerous large organisations and government organisations such as Boots, AKQA and sections of the NHS.
Microsoft has been a great company to work at, now its time for me to go and earn my scars in the big bad world J
