Wednesday, September 21. 2005

Transitions

Life is in transition for me now. Two weeks ago, we got to bring our handsome baby boy home, and I haven't been sleeping much since (though more than Jen). On top of the sleep deprivation, however, comes more exciting news: I've been hired as a PHP Developer by Zend Technologies!

I was approached by Daniel Kushner in late July regarding another position at Zend, and was flown out at the beginning of August. While I felt the interview went well, I harbored some doubts; work got fairly busy shortly thereafter, and then, of course, Liam was born, and the interview went completely out of my head. Until about three days after Liam's birthday, when Daniel contacted me again about the PHP Developer position.

Work started yesterday, and I was flown to Zend's offices in Cupertino, CA, for orientation and to sit down with both Daniel and others to prepare for the projects on which I will be working. Thankfully, the job will not require that I move, and I will be working out of the 'home office' in Vermont when I return later this week.

The decision to leave NGA was difficult, but the opportunity to work with Zend is just too good to miss. I am honored to be selected by them, and hope this is the beginning of many good things to come.

Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney in Personal, Programming, PHP at 00:58 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Congrats, both with your baby and your new job. I'm sure working at Zend will be a great challenge (actually Zend is on my 'companies-to-work-for-if-I-ever-move-to-the-states' list :-))

What kind of projects will you be doing? Working on PHP itself, or working with PHP on client projects?
#1 Ivo Jansch (Link) on 2005-09-21 03:04 (Reply)
Congrats man (on everything)!
So, have you visited Apple yet? ;-)
#2 enygma (Link) on 2005-09-21 08:03 (Reply)
Hey man -- we've spoken elsewhere, but I want to say it again: congratulations, and well done. :-)
#3 Paul M. Jones (Link) on 2005-09-21 08:27 (Reply)
Welcome aboard!
#4 Daniel (Link) on 2005-09-21 09:42 (Reply)
Congrats! :-)
#5 Chris Shiflett (Link) on 2005-09-21 09:52 (Reply)
Welcome to the team! :-)
#6 Mike Naberezny (Link) on 2005-09-21 11:23 (Reply)
Welcome! Glad to have another New England-based Zender aboard. Drop me a line if you're around Boston at some point and would like to meet.
#7 Chuck Hagenbuch (Link) on 2005-09-21 14:43 (Reply)
Fantastic! Congrats man.
#8 Marcus Whitney (Link) on 2005-09-21 15:08 (Reply)

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