| Kevin,
It's be absolutely wonderful working with you in different capacities over the last 15 years; IBM, Apache, MicroProfile, Jakarta EE. You've been consistently a pragmatic and reasonable person focused on keeping it positive and finding middle ground, which is has been an incredible asset to all we've built. You will definitely be missed and of course If I had my say, we'd get to keep you another 10 years :)
Your contributions to Jakarta EE have been prolific, leading nearly all releases we've had. A sincere thank you to you and IBM for letting us have you. You're leaving on quite the career high note and should be incredibly proud of the role you played in shaping our industry.
-- David Blevins 310-633-3852
Hi,I've been trying
to find the right time to bring this up during one of our recent meetings,
but the conversations have been quite good and taking up the whole hour.
And, now with vacations and holidays affecting the meetings left
in the year, I'm just going to use the old fashioned email...I am retiring
from IBM on Dec 31, 2021. With my part-time schedule and left-over
vacation, my last official IBM duty will be JakartaOne on Dec 7. Very
fitting, don't you think? ;-)I know I have
worked with many of you for many years, but here's a quick summary of my
IBM career from the note that announced my retirement at IBM...After serving
in numerous capacities for the last 33 years and being an integral part
of out team for many of those, Kevin decided to turn in his badge and start
a new chapter, spending more time with his family and pursuing personal
interests. His last day at IBM will be December 31st. Kevin's wealth of
knowledge, dedication and hard work have greatly benefited the Java community
and his contributions will always be valued and carried forward into our
portfolio. It is difficult to sum up Kevin's achievements and impact over
the 33 years of dedicated service.Kevin started
with IBM Rochester in 1988 in the PC Support area (device emulation) for
the System/36 and AS/400 (iSeries). After a couple of years of getting
acquainted with the "blue" way of doing things, Kevin shifted
to the AS/400 Print organization, where he received his first patent. Eventually,
the "7 year itch" caught up with Kevin and he considered leaving
IBM. After much deliberation, he decided to stay with IBM (great
decision, btw) -- but, he decided to try a whole new path and moved into
the object modeling area (SOM/DSOM). This eventually landed Kevin
a position with the Component Broker (C++ Application Server) Bringup lab,
which almost killed him (smile). So many stories, so little space.
After that experience, Kevin ventured into the Java Enterprise programming
models with JCA (J2EE Connector Architecture), DataGrid (Extreme Scale),
JPA (Java Persistence API), and even EJB (Enterprise Java Beans).
This foundational experience led to Kevin's Java EE architecture role,
his assistance with initiating the MicroProfile project, and eventually
the many roles associated with the Jakarta EE working group and projects.
That is Kevin's 33 year career in a single paragraph. Watch
for a slightly longer version in an upcoming blog. Kevin
be reached via his personal email, Signal,
Slack,
LinkedIn,
or Twitter,
at least for now... :-)Since my blog
contained some stories about internal IBM projects, I can't share that
with this wider team. :-)Anyway, I wanted
to Thank all of you for your support and guidance over the years. I've
learned a great deal through this Jakarta EE experience. Not sure
that it will apply to my post-IBM activities (smile), but it was still
a great learning experience!I will continue
to participate on the various Jakarta EE committees and calls until the
week of Dec 6 (I am out all of Thanksgiving week). Although my official
last day is not until Dec 31, I plan to be very quiet between Dec 7 and
the 31st... Thanks again!
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Kevin Sutter
STSM, Jakarta EE and MicroProfile architect @ IBM
e-mail: sutter@xxxxxxxxxx Twitter: @kwsutter
phone: tl-553-3620 (office), 507-253-3620 (office)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinwsutter
Part-time schedule: Tue, Wed, Thu (off on Mon and Fri)
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