Off to San Francisco

I'm heading out to SF, Cali tomorrow. I'll be there through Thursday,
then I'm heading to Las Vegas with the guys for a bachelor party.

As always, that's going to rock!

peace out1

A Day to remember

Today was a very exciting day for me personally at work today. I know most of you are probably saying, "Work, exciting.... I don't think so". Anyways, so today I had a huge oppotunity to present a major presentation to executive management at BB. There was several different levels of management involvement in this meeting from support, Product Development, product management all the way up the chain to the big daddy executive levels.

So, what was this presentation about? I was asked by my management team to present on the ADI (Advanced Data Integration) projects I've worked on in the past 2 years. They wanted me to pin point out all of the struggles we've had as a team in a project by project review. Our struggles are with the software application that BB Product development and the direction our sales team is positioning this product to solve all our clients integration needs.

The objective was to provide information to our executives that will demonstrate the need for us to greatly improve our integration products. I had to spend 1 - 2 hours going over these projects and demonstrate all of our product issues to the management team. In doing so I made it completely obvious that our current integration product was not meeting our needs in the services organization and is not meeting our client needs.

So you say... Who cares, right? Well, in doing this I was able to get some much needed exposure on what my capabilities are as a developer and how I could solve this problem. I've already been called into other meetings because of this and went to dinner tonight to discuss this more.

I think that I may have created a huge project for myself in product development that will allow me to hire some more developers to complete a new product line for BB. I've been asked to create some more slides to describe how I'd go about doing this in a non-techincal manner so that we can get this pushed through the approval chain.

Now the easy part, I just gotta put my tech skills to work and make this happen!

Shoulder Recovery

So I've had some ups and downs with my shoulder recovery ...

At first, I felt like crap for the first 4 days after surgery. I
couldn't sleep or get comfortable at all. I was only sleeping like an
hour every once in a while. Imagine trying to sleep with your
shoulder dislocated from its socket. Yah, that wouldn't feel to good.
Well, that's pretty much what it felt like for the first few days
after surgery.

Anyways, On the 5th day I thought things were going pretty well. I
went in to the office at work and then came home at lunch for the day.
In the afternoon I started breaking out with a slight rash down my
right arm. This is the same arm I had my surgery on. I started
feeling sick and nasty so we called the doctor for fear of an
infection starting. After taking some benedryl and going to sleep
that night I woke up the next day feeling fine.

So I felt fine today, the 6th day and have felt fine ever since. The
dr. thinks that it might have been an allergic reaction to the arm
sling I was using. Wierd huh? Well, I feel much better today and I
can already start to use my arm again so Woo hoo!!!

Shoulder Surgery

Well, I had shoulder on my surgery yesterday. Everything went really well and I'm now just relaxing on the couch reading fun books like "JBoss at work". I've had shoulder problems ever since I was about 20 when I dislocated it playing tennis. Since then I've been able to dislocate it fairly easily so I decided to get some MRI's done over the past couple of years to see what the issue was. After my last MRI in January it was determined that I had a tear in my right labrum.

The doctor did a scope of my shoulder to repair my torn labrum and I'm hoping that I can eventually get back into shape once this gets rehabilitated. The doctore did say that it was torn pretty bad and that surgery would have been my only option so I'm glad I did what I did... Right now I'm pretty soar, but it's not too bad so we'll see how I feel in a couple days.