My How Time Flys

Hard to believe it's been about a year since I was offered the vast opportunity to join the ranks of the prestigious organization Sycnhro32 - the Premier software for the foundry and metal casting industry. Incredible story. Through divine intervention or the alignment of the sun, moon and stars - here I am. It's like all the trials and tribulations and baptisms under fire throughout my career have finally culminated in the place that I belong.

I had been laid off, terminated, let-go, downsized, RIF'd, or whatever from Citation Lufkin Texas Foundries where I had been the Information Systems manager for twelve years using a "competitors" foundry software package based on the AS/400 platform and written in RPG. After nine months of unemployment, I finally secured a position with a local university in the purchasing department as the HUB coordinator - Historically Underutilized Business. Flipping through Modern Casting one evening, I saw the advertisement for Synchro32. Synchro32 is based in the UK and there was no way I would consider moving and I wasn't even looking for a job mind you. I looked up the website at www.synchro32.com and sent a simple email congratulating Synchro32 on competing with the other North American software companies - being a capitalist - I believe that competition is good. Lo and behold, I received an email back from Chris Collins! He had found my resume on the internet and suggested that we talk. We had a nice long conversation on the telephone one day. We agreed that we had mutual interests and although a position was not open at the time, Synchro32 was looking for the right person to head up the operations in North America! Mind you, this was in July of 2007. I didn't have any vacation available until October, so we agreed that I would come to the UK to interview in October of that year. Well, we all hit it off instantly and the rest, shall I say is history. The entire Synchro32 team has a passion for customer service, quality, timeliness, and above all dedication to getting the job done right no matter what it takes. I learned my customer service skills well during eight years of working with EDS-Electronic Data Systems under the master of customer service - Henri Ross Perot. I just can tell you how thrilled I am to wake up every morning and go to work with the team at Synchro32. It's by far the best job, if you can call it that, that I have ever had and can not imagine ever doing anything else. It seems as if my entire professional life has been honed in on the light at the end of the tunnel which is Sycnhro32. As Abraham Maslow would put it, I have reached the pinnacle of the pyramid of the Heirarchy of Needs in my professional life - that being the Self-Actualization.
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