My new job

I started my new job this week, and am pretty excited about it. Day 1 was a thumbs up.

I've gone back to work at a company I worked for 3 years ago, Corillian. That was their name when I worked there before. They've since been purchased by a competitor named CheckFree, who was then purchased by a big industry conglomerate named Fiserv ("FI" is an acronym for "financial institution". These companies all provide services and software to support the banking industry.)


So get this.. In orientation yesterday it was explained to me thusly:

I work for Checkfree.


But, because they will soon be absorbed into their new parent company FIserv, we identify ourselves as Check-free-now-a-part-of-Fiserv. And that's how I have to answer the phone.


But, my paychecks and taxes etc are all handled through Corillian.


So go figure.


I'm just excited that I have a job that I enjoy. When I left Corillian 3 years ago I was transitioning my career away from QA, which I had done for over 12 years, into a new area of technology called "configuration management" aka "release management" aka "build automation engineering".

It's weird going back to an old employer. I've only done it one other time at Nike. But Nike is so huge that I didn't go back to anything familiar, I worked in a completely different part of the company. But when I started talking with Corillian-now-Checkfree-now-a-part-of-FIserv about the position, it felt like a perfect fit for me. They brought me in to fill a much-needed role in my new area of expertise.

My title is Software Configuration Manager.


With all the bad news about the economy and all the lay-offs happening right now, I feel very blessed to have found such a great job.