It wasn't very long ago that I was raving about my new position in the not for profit world, but things change and I decided to move on after six months.

Essentially the direction I wanted to take things there ended up different to the way the board and others wanted to go, and I wasn't really happy going along so we parted ways.

I took a few weeks off to sort out a horrendous house moving experience, I've done some reflecting, spent a bit of time learning some new technology and I'm ready for the next step.

What I am good at, is looking at a problem and determining a good technology (or not technology) solution for it. I spend a lot of time knowing about the tools out there to achieve various tasks, and I'm good at making those things work together. I also am able to explain the technology side to the business people who might not have a deep understanding of most of these things.

On the development side, I'm also very interested in the tools to make a low friction development environment, things like good source control practices, continuous integration, automated deployments, unit testing etc

So I've decided to go more towards solution architecture consulting, maybe a little bit of training and mentoring.

I also like having my own working space, and flexibility in my time so doing this for myself makes a lot of sense.

I'm still working out what sort of structure this is going to have, so stay tuned for a part 2 blog post. In the meantime, if you have any nice projects, or other ideas, please feel free to get in touch.