This month, I will be leaving Nationwide Insurance and taking up work with Velocity Software.
When I interviewed at Nationwide in late 2005, Paul Henry (then director over the mainframe guys) put it this way [insert thick Bostonian accent here] - "We're serious about virtualization.". And so it is. Nationwide is a heavy user of z/VM and Linux on System z, then as now doing very cool stuff with V12N. Working with Rick Barlow and James Vincent has been the most rewarding part of the job. Those of you know know them by their reputations (through the VM and zLinux community and/or through SHARE) can only imagine what was my reality over the past four and one half years. And the team around us (whom most of you do not know) is phenominal: the most committed group I have thus far been privileged to be a part of. I will miss them. But now the time has come for me to go back to the development side of this game, supporting the software that makes virtualization actually work. If you can't measure it ... well, you know. So I am elated that on the 20th I'll start with Velocity, a company I have always respected with products of renown. I am stoked! -- R; <><
