{"id":47,"date":"2007-08-01T23:16:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T06:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techcafeteria.com\/new\/2007\/08\/01\/about-the-new-job\/"},"modified":"2014-10-25T13:52:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T13:52:06","slug":"about-the-new-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcafeteria.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"About the new job"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I think it’s safe to let everyone know that I start a new gig as IT Director at Earthjustice <\/a>this month. For those of you who don’t know, Earthjustice is a law firm dedicated to protecting natural resources and the environment. Originally founded as the legal arm of the Sierra Club<\/a>, they now do advocacy and litigation in defense of the planet. They are an international firm with the awesome tagline “because the earth needs a good lawyer”. My role there is a strategic one — in addition to managing the IT Department, I’ll be looking at ways that we can decentralize the technology platform so it can better support the global operation. This is a challenge that I know I’ll enjoy, and bring a good perspective to.<\/p>\n

It’s funny how many connections I had to this organization prior. First, the Communications Director there is a dear friend of mine who used to work for me at Goodwill. When they asked for my references, I had to explain that she had been on the list for years. Second, the consultant<\/a> they were working with is a friend of mine through NTEN, and he had actually introduced me to my predecessor there last year, who gave me a heads up about the job.<\/p>\n

But the connections are even deeper. My first “real” job (discarding the ten years I spent working in restaurants and playing in bands<\/a> in Boston in the late seventies\/early eighties) was with a small law firm in SF that had spun off from a larger firm called Lillick & Charles. My second job, where I was first promoted to the IT Director role, was with Lillick & Charles (since merged with giant firm Nixon Peabody<\/a>). I took a very intentional detour after that out of the for-profit world and to Goodwill. Earthjustice, oddly enough, was founded by a couple of Partners from Lillick & Charles. So it’s a small world I work in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I think it’s safe to let everyone know that I start a new gig as IT Director at Earthjustice this month. For those of you who don’t know, Earthjustice is a law firm dedicated to protecting natural resources and the environment. Originally founded as the legal arm of the Sierra Club, they now do
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