Well, I work for a software company now! I find it somewhat amazing that graphic design has brought me here, but in fact I still get along much more naturally with geeks than with anyone else.
I am the "creative director," which means I do anything graphics-oriented: web site, ads for trade pubs, data sheets, animated banner ads, splash screens for the product, etc. The designs I produce are so much better than ads by the CEO and web by the developers that they love me. My boss (the VP of Marketing) like me, used to write code! So it feels very comfortable.
I started in January and we've grown from about 20 to 26 people this year. As one of the "top 50 fastest growing companies in Oregon" (based on 2005 revenue) we may well be ripe for a takeover
Do you write Java? Our products are tools for developers working in Eclipse-Based IDEs. http://www.instantiations.com
Instantiations also has Smalltalk products, so we partner a bit with Martin's company, GemStone. He works there in Smalltalk -- the job that brought us to Oregon exactly 10 years ago. (Of course, we won't mention the period when they planned to abandon Smalltalk for Java, were bought by Europeans, who laid off 3/4 of the engineers -- including Martin, who had been moved to Java -- after which the Europeans went out of business (you may well know that Cobra goes away when the company does!) and spit GemStone back out, where he later got re-hired to work on the Smalltalk products that, in fact, still provide most of the income. Sigh.
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I am the "creative director," which means I do anything graphics-oriented: web site, ads for trade pubs, data sheets, animated banner ads, splash screens for the product, etc. The designs I produce are so much better than ads by the CEO and web by the developers that they love me. My boss (the VP of Marketing) like me, used to write code! So it feels very comfortable.
I started in January and we've grown from about 20 to 26 people this year. As one of the "top 50 fastest growing companies in Oregon" (based on 2005 revenue) we may well be ripe for a takeover
Do you write Java? Our products are tools for developers working in Eclipse-Based IDEs. http://www.instantiations.com
Instantiations also has Smalltalk products, so we partner a bit with Martin's company, GemStone. He works there in Smalltalk -- the job that brought us to Oregon exactly 10 years ago. (Of course, we won't mention the period when they planned to abandon Smalltalk for Java, were bought by Europeans, who laid off 3/4 of the engineers -- including Martin, who had been moved to Java -- after which the Europeans went out of business (you may well know that Cobra goes away when the company does!) and spit GemStone back out, where he later got re-hired to work on the Smalltalk products that, in fact, still provide most of the income. Sigh.