I've been unusually fortunate to have the same great manager (DonM) for almost 2 years now - which equates to 14 years in Sun Life.  Don is not only a great manager, but a wonderful human being.  He is open, honest, generous, and if you know Don the list of adjectives goes on and on.....I'll  miss working directly with him and my smart, occasionally sassy, yet brilliant colleagues in the Global Customer Services Operations team.  We had a great evening in the "Pope Room" at our face to face meeting last week as depicted below.  I was fortunate to have an instructional lesson from a Business Analysts on how to convert KG to LB...I will take that lesson with me!  (ok, this is probably an inside joke, so many of you won't get it...) 

Check out DonM in the Big Guy's Chair -

For those of you not familiar with the "Pope Room" and believe your projects are in need of some divine inspiration, just let me know and I can fill you in on the details.  It's much less expensive than heading to Rome....

But with time, all things must change.  I'll be re-joining the Global Customer Services Supply Chain Management team.  This is the group I was originally hired in to almost 7 years ago (rev 14.8 vs rev 5.2 way back then).  I'll be working for KevinT, who was part of my original  interview panel.  I've been in and out of this team a few times over the past 7 years.  Some may be thinking it's a bit like a bad penny - I keep turning up!  But regardless, I'm very thrilled to be back working with Supply Chain Management. This is one of my core competencies and passions, unlike I think many of our techie bloggers - whom I read with great respect and awe as they blog about open source, rss, blades and other terms that leave me doing research.

Don, Mike, Kendall, MarkT, Paul, Christine, Kei-Yin, Vince, Jim, MarkF, John and Keith - you rock!  Thank you for making the last 2 years great for me, and great for SUN!!!!