Well it’s come to that time again (nearly 11 years later), and I’m off to a different company, Ipanema Technologies
I joined GlobalOne at the beginning of March 1995, doing network technical support. Over time I graduated to being a project engineer, looking after the design of networks for customers, including Unilever and GlaxoSmithkline. After a round of changes of staff in the engineering team, I ended up managing the team, and changed the focus from individual network projects to a more long-term relationship with customers and ensuring that the network evolved over time to keep pace with the customer requirements, rather than having revolutionary changes every three years.
Then there were more changes in the organisation as GlobalOne first lost Sprint as an owner, and then was taken over completely by France Telecom. At this point the company merged with Equant, that France Telecom brought from SITA.
After a while, I moved into the WAN Optimization arena, and consultancy, which wasn’t really to big a shift, since most of my focus has been on consistent user experience.
I’m somewhat sad to leave all the colleagues and friends I’ve made there, but this being a small industry, I’m bound to keep bumping into them in the future at various locations.
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