New Year, New Job!

In October, after four years at Pop Art, I decided it was time to move on. While I will always miss the incredible people I worked with, and the passion everyone brought to the job, the company had changed and it wasn’t the right place for me anymore. While negotiating my exit, I interviewed for a job at R2C Group, which I accepted.

However, in my first week at R2C, it became clear to me very quickly that it was a poor fit. I spoke to my managers, and we all agreed to do everything we could to address the situation, but in the end the company’s needs and my own were incompatible. I gave notice, and my last day was Christmas Eve. I didn’t have another job lined up.

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The Big News: I’m Leaving Pop Art

Removing a post-it mural the fast way

Friday will be my last day at Pop Art. I’ve been working there nearly four years, and deciding to quit was not an easy decision. I won’t get into all the details, suffice to say that it’s time for me to move on, and I’m ready for some new challenges.

Over the years at Pop Art, I’ve worked with a lot of great people, many of whom I would work with again in a heartbeat. I’ve learned a lot, and I also feel like I made a real difference. Together with other front-end developers like Libby Molina and Ryan Parr, we’ve shaped the production process and made top-notch standards-compliant code one of the things that Pop Art is known for. I’m proud of that legacy.

All in all, I’m stoked. It was definitely time for a change, and this feels like a really good one. I’m sure I’ll be posting more details soon, but in the meantime, wish me luck!

Post-It by Number

For the Pop Art 10-year anniversary party, the creative team laid out a 20-foot-wide grid of three-inch squares on the wall of the conference room. Then they bought a large supply of multi-colored Post-It notes, and labeled each square in the grid with a number. At the party, they asked party-goers to match the colored Post-Its to the numbers on the grid, and called it “Post-It by Number.” It was a huge success, and they recorded a time-lapse movie of the whole thing: