New Year, New Gig
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
My blog has been quiet and I’ve been off Twitter for close to a month now, mostly due to taking some well needed time off after the SAP Fellowship but also weighing a pretty big choice I had to make.
Stay at Colgate-Palmolive or leave for a job working for Adobe in a new product group creating a new enterprise software offering. A new job certainly has its risks especially when compared to the stable home I have made for myself at Colgate. However, with some good advice from my friends I have decided to leave Colgate to pursue the opportunity with Adobe.
Working at Colgate has allowed me to do so much and opened so many doors for me. I cannot begin to express how much I appreciated all the support through the years the company’s management has give me. I’ve traveled ( and taken pictures ) all over the world from India to Bangkok to Dublin. I got to learn what makes a business like Colgate run from both the IT and business side. I’ve presented in front of thousands of people in both the US and EU. These experiences cannot be learned from a book and having this as my first job out of school was a great experience.
However, working for Adobe is going to be a great new chapter in my life — getting to see how software goes from just an idea on a whiteboard to a full fledged product is going to quite an adventure and I look forward to the challenge.
Thanks again to Colgate and more importantly all the Colgate people that made my time there so enjoyable.
For those of you keeping track my last day at Colgate will be Jan 18th and I will start at Adobe that following Monday, Jan 21st.