Congratulations Kevin!
It was a pleasure working with you. If you happen to stop by Portugal, let me know :)
Enjoy your retirement!
Cheers, Roberto
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 I've
had a couple of recent conflicts that prevented my participation. 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.
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 MicroProfile 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 MicroProfile 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!FYI, with my retirement,
Emily will move into the Primary rep role for IBM. And, Nathan Rauh
will be taking on the Alternate role. I'm sure MicroProfile will
be in good hands going forward! Thanks again! --------------------------------------------------- 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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