New-Job -Role Consultant -Company 'Black Marble' -Start September

Ryan YatesConsultant

Just a dude in his 30's doing things in Tech & trying to break the stigma's around talking about Mental Health

Well the Title says it all in as few words as possible but I wanted to just expand briefly on this new chapter.

As of the beginning of September I will be leaving dotmailer after a fantastic 6 months here and this was a decision that was not easy to make as there are many interesting & exciting things happening at dotmailer in the upcoming few years & as such they are currently undergoing a huge increase in their tech team, I would reccommend that if you are looking for a new role in the London/Croydon area & are interested in DevOps and working with a predominantly all Azure environment to have a look at the roles that they have advertised at http://careers.dotmailer.com for further information. I will miss the team at dotmailer as it’s a very good working environment, has some interesting benefits and has a very interesting future ahead of them.

That may lead you to ask, why leave? Well the answer to that comes down to only a very small few factors, with the main one being that as much as I have enjoyed London and Croydon, I am a more comfortable being based in a more country like surrounding. So with this in mind the move to Black Marble made a lot of personal sense in that regard as well as alot of professional sense as I will be working along side some other familiar UK MVP faces, including Rik Hepworth (twitter) Richard Fennel (twitter) Andy Dawson (twitter) James Croft (twitter) James Mann (twitter) & MVP & RD Robert Hogg (twitter) - These are just a few of the people at Black Marble and I am looking forward to working very closely with Chris Gardner (twitter) on more and more PowerShell for the community in the upcoming months.

Alas this also means I will be moving back up north which means that the Manchester PowerShell User Group will at some point in the upcoming months be totally resurrected.

I am extremely excited for the future and what it brings, although there are still some things that are not solidified yet, like where exactly I am moving to, what I am looking forward to is getting stuck in to this exciting challenge.

There were a few people that I had some conversations with about this prior to making the decision, the benefits of having a trusted network as always is critical to making good sensible decisions like this one, and those conversations were immensely beneficial to me in coming to the end decision.

I will miss the team at dotmailer as it has been a fantastic time here, including (attempted) weekly games of football, which will be one of many things that I will miss, though I don’t expect to be too much of a stranger to the team in the upcoming months with PSDay and the other London User Groups ahead.

So without much further to add, Let the immense fun sarcasm of moving commence, hopefully this will be a last move for some time to come.