Promotion!
Jan. 25th, 2018 08:00 pmToday, I was formally named Manager, Systems Engineering for Deem, Inc., my employer of nine years.
I've had five managers in syseng since I started, and now after all those years of working for The Man, I am now The Man --and working for a Different Man since I still have a VP to report to, naturally.
In a longer view, this is my return to management. I was the manager of Physics Computing Services when I worked for the University of Toronto. Of course, that was 22 years ago in another country, so that aged off my resume some time ago. If nothing else, I'm grateful for the management title as it legitimizes my less formal management experience when/if I go job hunting again in future.
It's not really much of a change overall since I was already informally the team manager since mid-November or so. My team is pretty small too: me, Chris in California, Leeno in Bangalore, and Allan (a prior holder of my current title) who is a contractor with us in California. And my projects & priorities haven't changed a great deal: I still will be looking after the DC3 data center, and have a hand in the SC4 data center. The only adjustment will be doing performance reviews and approving vacations & expenses, and representing our team at management meetings. 90% of my day-to-day work will be exactly the same.
A half-dozen people besides me were promoted today, but not one of us got a raise or extra stock options. Finance simply refuses to release the funds for that. We are informed that we're shortlisted collectively for any raises or bonuses if/when Finance ever relaxes the purse strings, but that may not happen for a while. I did receive a lovely $5 Starbucks gift card. I don't drink coffee, but![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cuyhogarvr can use it.
I've had five managers in syseng since I started, and now after all those years of working for The Man, I am now The Man --and working for a Different Man since I still have a VP to report to, naturally.
In a longer view, this is my return to management. I was the manager of Physics Computing Services when I worked for the University of Toronto. Of course, that was 22 years ago in another country, so that aged off my resume some time ago. If nothing else, I'm grateful for the management title as it legitimizes my less formal management experience when/if I go job hunting again in future.
It's not really much of a change overall since I was already informally the team manager since mid-November or so. My team is pretty small too: me, Chris in California, Leeno in Bangalore, and Allan (a prior holder of my current title) who is a contractor with us in California. And my projects & priorities haven't changed a great deal: I still will be looking after the DC3 data center, and have a hand in the SC4 data center. The only adjustment will be doing performance reviews and approving vacations & expenses, and representing our team at management meetings. 90% of my day-to-day work will be exactly the same.
A half-dozen people besides me were promoted today, but not one of us got a raise or extra stock options. Finance simply refuses to release the funds for that. We are informed that we're shortlisted collectively for any raises or bonuses if/when Finance ever relaxes the purse strings, but that may not happen for a while. I did receive a lovely $5 Starbucks gift card. I don't drink coffee, but
cuyhogarvr can use it.
