WebMD
Recall my entry two days previous where I mentioned my activities at the Berglund Center were under severe time pressure. The reason was that I had been offered a position at WebMD!
So as you can imagine, I was not only busy with packing up from the Berglund Center but also adjusting to my new career in Portland, Oregon. Before anyone asks, no I do not know when I will be moving to Portland but I have no doubt that it will eventually happen. On average, it seems to take me about an hour to get there in the morning and about as long to come back in the evening. It’s not the longest commute that people there take each day, but it is about twice as long as I am used to. Of course it’s all the traffic – driving there without traffic only takes 30 minutes.
At this point I am still being trained by various members of our group and occasionally people in neighboring groups. I think I’ll like the job, but there is a lot of stuff to get used to – a lot of new tools I have to learn and technical procedures. Without diving into details, there is a lot more going on than what we did at ILN. I’m certainly not discouraged, everyone there seems very helpful.
My role is an Integrations Developer, and as the title suggests, I will be in charge of integrating new functionality into our core platform. Essentially we have a core development team that creates our platform software and then we have integrations developers who customize these standard tools to fit the individual needs of our clients. Some of these customizations are as easy as setting a flag in some field in some record in the database while others require completely overriding core code. Of course others still involve building tools not in the core code at all.
Although, to start things off, among my first assignments will be to move some of our clients from our old tools to the new ones WebMD has since created.
Aside from the commute, I am rather excited about the job and hope to see were it goes. Being in the health business themselves, they offer great benefits (particularly compared to my previous zero!) and even have a graduate school program which I might look into after I get settled in.
Anyway, I once again apologize for not posting about this earlier. However, I assure you there is at least one more entry in my back-log queue. Expect to hear yet another announcement either tomorrow or early next week, this time regarding BluHelix Studios.