Managing on the Bleeding Edge Eric J. Ray's Weblog

Well, there's no time like the present to (finally) start blogging, right?

For context and perspective (it might come in handy), here's a bit about me.

I've been at Sun for over 7 years (yes, that's enough to hit that max vacation accrual that it doesn't look like I'll have time to use), and am just starting a new gig as the manager of the Solaris Install team. Previously, I had a brief stint managing labs for the Network Storage organization, and prior to that, I managed a variety of lab and QE (that's quality engineering==test development) groups within the Solaris organization. Before that, I was a senior technical writer, also working with the Solaris organzation (primarily working on Solaris Volume Manager documentation).

Before that? Wow...that's a whole different life. I worked with my wife co-authoring commercial computer books (Dummies books, etc.) as a full-time gig for about five years, after bailing out of a very unfortunate company called WorldCom.

What's it like managing the Solaris Install team? Good question--I just started about a week ago, but there's a lot of cool stuff happening, and, frankly, a tremendous opportunity to really drive change in Solaris Install and in our customer's experience with Solaris. More on that later.