Hired by Spiceworks, moving to Austin

I have been hired on as a UI Designer at Spiceworks, a startup company in Austin, Texas. This Thursday I’ll be driving down to start my apartment search, and I start work this Monday.

It should be a pretty good gig. They have just released the public beta version of their free IT management application for small (~25 computer) networks. It’s all done in Rails, but interestingly enough it runs on your local machine. This should open up some interesting UI possibilities given that client/server latency issues are greatly reduced.

I met several of my coworkers during interviews and I am looking forward to working with them and becoming their friend. Several of them are involved in local Rails groups and most if not all of them have been through multiple successful startups.

Anyway, I will be driving down on Thursday, and then aggressively searching for apartments over the weekend. If everything goes well I will be moved in by Sunday. Otherwise I will have to wing it somehow.

Before I head out I’m going up to my hometown of Enid, Oklahoma, to see my grandparents.

I don’t know anyone in the Austin area, so if you’re there and I didn’t realize it please drop me a line.

Chick-fil-A, American flag, electric lines, sunset in Austin, TX

12:49 AM | 18 Comments

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  1. That’s great news Grant! Congratulations! Best of luck to you with that job, and I hope you enjoy living in Texas. If Yellow Lights ends up making it into the SXSW festival in Austin next March (I think that’s when it is), I’ll probably come out and visit!

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  2. Looking forward to working with you, clearing out space as we speak :)

    You might have to camp out in the forest around Spiceworks, which is totally cool.

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  3. Lindsay’s in Austin :) You should visit her – but she’s busy until…Saturday I think.

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  4. Whoa, I haven’t been here in a while. Just wanted to say congrats! And by the way, I think you’re a pro at “winging it”, so I am super excited for you. I bet it’ll be fun. Oh, and I miss you, Grant.

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  5. I’ve been playing with Spiceworks for a couple days at work now, still haven’t been able to get it to recognize some of the computers but I like what I see. Love the alerts feature, let’s me know if the employees are installing games and what have you… even though at this point I could care less if they were :) Once I’ve used it for awhile I’ll shoot you some suggestions.

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