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# Friday, June 23, 2006

I can now finally blog the big news that I've been _dying_ to share with everyone. I'm proud to announce that I will soon officially become a Microsoft employee. I have accepted an offer to be a Technical Evangelist on the Developer and Platform Evangelism Team working with Longhorn Server. That's right, baby! Technical Evangelist!!! I'm really looking forward to the challenge, the never-stop-learning experience, and everything else about the position.

I feel so lucky that I will be getting the opportunity to work with amazingly smart people such as (in no special order): Vitorrio Bertocci, Volker Will, James Conard, Matthew Winkler, and Neil Hutson (the ones I met during my interview loop).

I would like to send out a thank you to Steve Cellini for giving me my final interview and providing me with some more insight into what the purpose of Evangelism is.

I also would be remiss to not send a "shout out" to Steph Coleman, the recruiter who recruited me in the first place, and without whom this would not be happening to me at this time :). I will be creating a new post detailing my recruiting experience and how the whole process went (so stay tuned).

So, thank all of you for the opportunity and I look forward to working with all of you!

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Friday, June 23, 2006 8:29:53 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Congrats man! Remember us little guys!
Sunday, June 25, 2006 1:14:31 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Congrats, Jason! Couldn't have happened to a better guy.

When's the party?

Monday, June 26, 2006 8:30:04 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
congrats dude!
Monday, June 26, 2006 5:48:02 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
congrats jason! well deserved, welcome to DPE!!!
Monday, June 26, 2006 6:18:00 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Thanks Tim :). I'm looking forward to it! Now just for the background check to clear :). Thank goodness I don't have any hidden crimes in my past!
Wednesday, June 28, 2006 7:31:14 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Jason - congratulations! I would be very interested in hearing the conversation-replay (blog post perhaps?)around what evangelism really is! I have oft thought of trying to pursue a MS evangelism role in the IT Pro arena so I am curious as to those in the role's opinion! Thanks! Chris
Wednesday, July 05, 2006 10:02:25 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Shouldn't that be ISerf, rather than IMicrosoftie? :-)

Welcome aboard!
Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:13:34 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Haha, I guess it should Michael. Ah, good ol' Microserfs, I like that book :).

Thanks Michael!
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