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I woke up this morning and for some reason it occurred to me that it was Friday the 13th.  As I lay in bed waiting for my eldest son to roll in as he so often does, I thought, what an interesting way to end it…

Today, is my last day at PaperThin, Inc.  The company that I have called home for the past 9 years will be moving on without me on Monday.  It has been the most amazing 9 years.  I have had my life’s highest high’s and lowest low’s working at PaperThin.  I have met so many amazing people and made some life long friends here.  I fell completely blessed at the opportunity that I have been given here and I personally would like to thank Todd and Barbara Peters for believing in me.

I started out as a developer here at PaperThin and have had the following roles attached to my belt along the way.

• Support Engineer
• Sales Engineer
• Development Manager
• Product Strategist
• Director of Professional Services

None of those titles really meant a thing to me.  I had one goal here and one goal only:

Show everyone and anyone how awesome the CommonSpot Content Management System is.

I did that in many different ways.  I taught classes, trained employees, wrote applications, delivered conference and company presentations, coached consultants and talked A LOT!

After all is said and done, I am quite proud of the work that I did here and more proud of the people that will continue on without me.  PaperThin is at an amazing inflection point now.  With the advent of CommonSpot Cloud I feel strongly that PaperThin and CommonSpot are poised to reach places that they weren’t able to in the past.

The drive and determination of the team here is unfounded.  It rivals organizations that are 5-10 times its size (and that is absolutely no exaggeration). I have been so happy working here with these people and they will truly all be missed.

Thank you PaperThin.

P.S. as the day wore on, I realized today wasn’t Friday the 13th which is actually a better way to end things here.