Category: Work

Last Day @ SAP

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Just over 11 years at SAP and can’t be more grateful for what I had, and accomplished. It was a great run but I am looking forward to joining Wells Fargo and taking on a new challenge. I am going to miss the folks I worked with, but staying in the SAP ecosystem, I hope to see and chat to the, on the odd occasion but from a slightly different customer perspective.

Onward 🚀

Some of my more memorable moments:

  • Visiting the Github HQ in SF
  • The visits to San Ramon, Walldorf and one of my favorite cities, Heidelberg
  • The numerous “Offsites” we did – filled with lots of work, but also lots of fun
  • The people – 99.9% of folks I got to work with, were awesome.
  • The opportunity to hire people
  • The trust every single one of my managers instilled in me
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    Signavio – Gero Decker & Berlin SAP Office

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    On one of my business trips to Berlin, we spent the day working in the beautiful and very unique Signavio office. We had a meeting scheduled with Gero but unfortunately it didnt pan out 🙁

    A nice gesture was a copy of his book.

    One key quote jumped out to me and is a good reminder:

    I would rather fail as a team, than win alone.

    One of my favorite was a subway style map of all the famous night clubs/discotheques in Berlin …

    Travel: Bay Area & Lake Tahoe

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    A short weekend away with Kitty in the Bay Area after spending the week there for work.

    A short visit on the way to the airport to visit Apple and my second time going to the computer history museum. That place really gives me nostalgic vibes from my childhood.

    First stop was Half Moon Bay and a new spot I had not been to before, Martens Bay. We spent the night at the Harbor View Inn which was mediocre (loud).

    Day two we drove North through Pacifica, across the Golden Gate Bridge and to Muir Woods National Monument area. It was the first time for me visiting Muir and Stinson Beach. Next we visited the giant redwoods of the Muir Woods National Monument. read more

    Travel: Walldorf & Heidelberg Germany

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    Work trip to Germany over 10 days. Was super busy work wise with a leadership offsite, team members visiting from Bulgaria and meeting and making new friends. Was one of my more memorable visits to the SAP HQ 🙂

    Over the weekend I spent some time training in Heidelberg for the upcoming 70.3 Ironman Chattanooga Race. The “City Bad” (City Pool) was chaotic to train in, but also pretty fun versus my local YMCA 🙂 Sunday I did a big strength session, running to the top of Thingstätte, down across the river and back up the other side to Königstuhl. After walking down the 300 odd stairs last year, I really wanted to run up them, so this was the perfect opportunity. read more

    Travel: Roth, Walldorf, Heidelberg, Munich

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    Due to a last minute work trip to SAP in Walldorf, some odd flights to Munich afforded me some time on either end of the travel for a few personal events to enjoy. (I generally fly to Frankfurt as it’s much closer).

    A few days before the trip I noticed a famous full distance triathlon was going on in Roth, Germany, so on my drive from Munich to Roth, I made a short stop to watch.

    During the work week I spent time running in a small forest area next to the office, we had a great event in Heidelberg and hiked from the top down. I also spent some time lap swimming in Walldorf, and also did a trail run along philosophers walk before heading back to Munich. read more

    Work Project: Maintenance App

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    Company: LuxDev
    Time: 1999 – 2000
    Project: A desktop application with the inventory and assets of each room in the Butterworth Hospital. Manage resources, time, materials, for their team. Written in VB.Net, and had an MS Access Database. I spent the year driving to Butterworth and inventorying room size, door sizes, components, etc. and then cataloging it in the DB. This was a wonderful jumpstart for me, I was still studying, working on the side and making a solid income, while gaining valuable software development experience.