Under Construction
After almost 10 years, I said good-bye to the folks at FileMaker in early March 2007, in preparation for our cross-country move. From junior software tester to engineering project manager, it's been a pretty great ride, all things considered.
After giving much thought to the topic "What Job Satisfaction Means To Me", I am taking some time to do contract work in FileMaker database and web solution development. And learning a whole lot in the process about what it means to be my own employer! Check out the site for my business, Appleseed Solutions.
FileMaker, Inc. (1997 - 2007)
Until recently, I earned my keep as a software engineering project manager at FileMaker, Inc., where I've been working in some capacity or other since late 1997. It was a pretty good gig. The company is owned by Apple, I worked with some great people, and I had the chance to learn a lot while helping to ship six or seven major releases of FileMaker Pro and other members of the family.
In addition to my duties of managerial wonderment, I did a fair amount of FileMaker solution development as well. Over the last couple of years I made some major updates to our internal bug database and created an XSL web publishing solution to serve up most of our department web site from a database back end. Sounds fascinating, I know, but I love it. It's like Legos for grown-ups.
Then again, I never gave up my real Legos.