I'm Special!

So as most of you know, I have been the team leader for my team since October. But as of yesterday, I've taken on a new job--I'm an AE Specialist now.

It's technically in the same department, but it's definitely a different job. I no longer have daily phone shifts, which I'm pretty excited about. Now, I get to work very closely with our sales, marketing, R&D, and systems engineering departments. As a "test-side" AE Specialist, I'll mostly be doing proof-of-concept work for our sales force when they are trying to sell a big system; after all, big systems almost always include a whole lot of PXI. My first assignment is a unique challenge: I'm building a system with a giant PXI chassis connected to other hardware and a ridiculously-fast quad-core server, but it's for a company that builds and disassembles NUCLEAR WEAPONS, so I don't get to know much more about it than that.

I'm stoked that I get to stay in AE, which has a fantastic culture, and training that's second to none. But I also get out of the 'drudgery' of handling service requests every day, and I get to do a lot of varied, interesting work, and the visibility is fantastic. I'll make sure and add a post here when I get more interesting customer applications. I've always said that our customers do the coolest things in the world. Check out the video.