After taking a few months off and spending some time with my family and fiancee, it’s now time to jump back into the fray. I’m primarily looking for jobs in the Vancouver and Calgary areas but I’m also considering making a serious go at telecommuting. Most of my recent experience has been in the identity 2.0 space but I’m very interested in exploring new industries and problems.
So, if you have a good problem or need a deep thinker for your team, keep me in mind.
So, without much ado, I’m no longer with Cogneto and am joining my two friends Andy Dale and John Bradley to bring solid, usable, user-centric identity and authentication to the world under the mighty rubric of Wingaa.
As is often the case, transitioning from one job to another was rockier than it first looked. It was full of bitter-sweet moments mixed liberally with some sad moments and a huge swelling of excitement and hope for the future. I’ve gained a pile of insight and a good set of lessons to take to my next venture. I try when I leave a job to figure out what the best lesson was and I think that, in retrospect, we didn’t have enough transparency and that should have been a warning sign. We had a very smart group of people who were kept from seeing or helping with problems because they didn’t know about them. That’s my key lesson from this job – transparency is a hallmark of a good company.
(and my first one too!) This podcast was a lot of fun to do and I have to thank the experts at WhatIs.com as well as Alex Howard for being an excellent host.
I had just finished an investor relations trip in Europe for Cogneto. It was fun but extremely busy – one of those non-stop business trips where days are filled with meetings and evenings with… more meetings. We stayed at an amazing hotel (especially by London’s standards) near Shepherd’s Market in Mayfair. It was a short walk to our UK office off Berkeley Square and generally close to most other fun bits of London. We walked all over, paid homage to the Apple Store, ate in Soho, rode the tube. All very British and fun.
Axion was my first real job and I love it. I was a chance to grow into a management position and run some slick hardware at a scale that was unavailable to me before. I really enjoyed working with Tom Lavin and the rest of the crew and honestly couldn’t have asked for a better introduction to startups.
Here I learned so many of my formative career lessons (including my not-so-fun introduction to VC takeovers *lol*). This was a very fun time in my life and I’ll always cherish these days for their youthful excitement and the deep feeling that I can accomplish anything that I carry with me today.