Jason's New Gig!!!

If you are interested in what's been going on my past few months please read on, if not, well, now is your opportunity to stop reading. :)

Since leaving Adobe in December, until this week I had been working full-time as a consultant. I have not had any downtime, even on my vacations I have been working on various projects, client work, my own open source projects (I updated CFXL to use POI, I added MXML and ActionScript support to ColdFiSH... I'll post that another time), and I have also been working with many talented folks on another project that I can't wait to talk about publically (but will wait for the right time :).)

While doing that, I managed to talk to a few companies about full-time work. As of this past Monday, I am now the Director of Technology for FirstComp Insurance. The team here is a phenomenally talented group composed of genuinely friendly people. I don't want to get into too many details about the company, but I can honestly say that I would not have thought insurance could be so interesting. They use a lot of ColdFusion, so if you're a CF or Flex developer that is a guru or want to become one, live in Rhode Island, and are willing to work for a crazy coding fool, feel free to contact me. :)

The past several months have just been so refreshing to me. My hours have dropped from "working whenever awake" to "normalesque" hours. I've been able to spend time with my family and friends, to code out of pure enjoyment for coding, to travel for fun rather than work, and I have been able to fully enjoy the time and discussions I have had with fellow developers (when you represent a large company, you can't always share your true opinion.)

Things have just been spectacular and it just seems to keep getting better. In case you were wondering, I'm alive and well, and am happy to still call myself a CFer!

I wish all of the success in the world to each and every one of you.

Jason