Tuesday, October 29, 2002

Peter Drayton joins Microsoft as Program Manager in the CLR team During the past couple of weeks I've made references to impending personal changes. The time has come to share some very exciting news (for me at least!) with the ~2 people who read this weblog on a regular basis :-). Starting November 4, I'm going to be joining Microsoft as a Program Manager in the CLR team, doing my bit to "ensure that the CLR remains the most innovative multi-language runtime in the industry". Specifically, I'll be working with both the internal compiler teams and the external academic research community to help identify, evaluate, prototype & productize future enhancements to the CLR. Formerly described by me as my Dream Job, it is a perfect fit for my interests: it involves a high-ish % of externally-facing work interacting with the research community and speaking/writing about the CLR & Rotor, lets me spend time working at the systems level with the CLR & Rotor, and requires me to stretch my commercial software development muscles again after almost 2 years of shipping mostly prose and slides. Most importantly, the job gives me an opportunity to actually *impact* the platform I've spent the last couple years of my life working on. Doing my part to contribute to the "giant sucking sound" Chris referred to (for the "visceral experience", I might add), Julie & I are moving to Seattle. New city, new environment, new everything. What an adventure! Working on the assumption that other people might find it interesting, I'll share my relocation experiences here (subject to the constraints of NDAs and propriety, of course). Of course, this all means there should be at least *one* CLR blogger RSN... :-) [via Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog] 7:49:58 AM    comment []

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