An Aphelion
Aphelion is the point in the orbit of a planet or comet where it is farthest from the Sun.
-- Wikipedia
Tomorrow, July 31st, will mark an aphelion in my career—I am leaving BBD today after 5 fantastic years in the ATC team.
BBD
This was not a simple decision to make. BBD is not only an amazing company but also home to some of my best friends. The ATC team enabled me to do a very special job: desk research, guidance for many customers & teams within BBD, key customer engagements, and promotion of the company—all of which was amazingly fun and grew me in the most wondrous ways (including growing my waist—damn you, free vending machines).
So if everything is awesome there, why leave? Because I have a unique and amazing opportunity to build something on a scale that being in a team focused internally would never enable me to achieve.
Aphelion
Where am I heading? Aphelion (see what I did there—loads of jokes you didn’t get until the end. Now re-read this from the start and laugh heartily with me… sigh, that joke isn’t as funny as I hoped, and doesn’t make much sense).
I’ll talk more about the company and the work I’m involved in at a later date.
How does this change my involvement in x?
Where x is:
It doesn’t—that all remains the same! In fact, the people at Aphelion are regular speakers at events, run their own user groups and there’s already an MVP working there, so I expect to feel very much at home there!