{"id":750,"date":"2012-10-08T15:54:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T14:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/?p=750"},"modified":"2013-04-18T18:25:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T17:25:01","slug":"my-new-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/2012\/10\/my-new-job\/","title":{"rendered":"My new job!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As found on my\u00a0website<\/a>, I recently switched employers. After working for 5 pretty good years at Datamex Breda (in the south region of Holland), I decided it was time to get moving. After all, 5 years at\u00a0your first\u00a0company\u00a0seems to be a pretty long time in todays world, and there’s definitely more out there.<\/p>\n

So, what then? I needed some real change. Not a similar company doing similar things, but something really completely different. And I found that at AtoS. For those of you who don’t know AtoS, it’s a pretty huge company. Around the globe I’ve got about 75.000 colleagues. So sending an e-mail “to all” isn’t a real good idea any more. And even when you don’t know us, there’s a good chance you used one our services like credit card or online\u00a0payments and watching the Olympic Games. Indeed, that’s us.<\/p>\n

It won’t be a big surprise I’m still focussed on SharePoint. But instead of just focussing on development, I’m now titled an architect. The definition of an architect is kind of vague (in general that is), but it boils down to being the person (or part of a team) thinking and designing solutions instead of building them hands-on.\u00a0Although I have some good years of SharePoint experience, I still lacked a bit of infrastructure knowledge. So last month I’ve been studying hard to earn SharePoint certifications. Passing the last one today, I can now proudly list the following certifications:<\/p>\n