After over 8 wonderful years at Lucent Technologies, I have finally decided to move on. Over the past few months a few really terrific opportunities presented themselves to me, and I have decided to go to work for Sling Media to help start up the Sling Entertainment Group. This new group was created to design the web experience for the Clip N Sling technology that was announced at CES last December. I'm coming on as the information architect. A very talented team is putting this group together, so I'm very excited for what's to come.
I expect that I'll continue to blog about information architecture and interaction design, but the frequency and volume of my blogging is likely to diminish. I tend to write long blog entries, but can't see how I'll maintain that pattern given the change in work and lifestyle I expect. But do look for a wider array of topics to be covered, including web video.
As I've mentioned in a previous entry, I am no longer providing consulting services. On to new things!
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I recently began an investigation into the possibility of pursuing the Ph.D. program at Rutgers SCILS. Dr. Anderson pointed me in the direction of the Ph.D. email list at SCILS and I got a lot of feedback from people in the program past and present. I think, based on the feedback, that I will have to put the program on hold for now. Being a new parent, I feel that the time taken away from family would be too much at the moment. And so it goes. Thanks to everyone for the supportive feedback. Maybe when Lorenzo goes to school I will go back too!