Raymond Lewallen

Framework Design, Agile Coach, President Oklahoma City Developers Group, Microsoft MVP C#, TDD, Continuous Integration, Patterns and Practices, Domain Driven Design, Speaker, VB.Net, C# and Sql Server

Things that have come to pass. Things that have still yet to come.

I would like to wish my wonderful wife of 10 years a Happy Anniversary today. This year has been the most trying year of our lives. To quote a line from the new Rocky Balboa movie I watched last night regarding life, “… its about how hard you can get it, and keep moving forward.” We took our punches, and we’re still standing.

Also some exciting news is that I will begin a new job on January 15th for one of the best consulting firms there is: Geniant. I’m really looking forward to moving back to the private/commercial sector after having spent the last 9 years working entirely in the public sector. Geniant has some awesome individuals on staff, including Chip Wilson, who is 1 of about 50 people world-wide to hold the Microsoft Certified Architect honor, as well as certifications from IBM and Sun. Exciting opportunity indeed.

April 16th, 1 year to the day when our son died, we shall have a new son arrive. For those of you who know the story from earlier this year, this baby looks completely healthy and everything is great at this point.

I did a lot of presentations around the Midwest this year, and have 5 setup for this coming winter and spring, so I’ll see some of you around early this coming year. I really enjoy doing this and am looking forward to the tour before my son arrives.

I’m looking forward to blogging more again. My new job and all the industries and technologies it shall touch is going to be exciting and I’ll have plenty of things to share with you as I learn new tricks, new tools and new people.

Stay tuned, its going to be a great 2007!

Published Dec 21 2006, 05:41 AM by Raymond Lewallen

Comments

Jeremy D. Miller said:

Congratulations Raymond!

# December 21, 2006 7:45 AM

Dennis van der Stelt said:

Your wife is 10 years old?! Wow! ;-)

But congrats indeed Raymond! Have a great holiday season with your family.

# December 21, 2006 8:18 AM

Eber Irigoyen said:

congrats Raymond, nice to hear everything is going good

# December 21, 2006 9:42 AM

Tim Hibbard said:

Congratulations!

Happy holidays

# December 21, 2006 10:20 AM

Travis said:

Congrats, you deserve the best 07 ever!

# December 22, 2006 11:06 AM

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About Raymond Lewallen

Working primarily in the public sector during his career, Raymond has designed and built several high profile enterprise level applications for all levels of the government. Raymond now works as a solutions architect for EMC. Raymond is an agile coach, Microsoft MVP C# and also president of the Oklahoma City Developers Group and Oklahoma Agile Developers Group. Raymond spends a lot of his time learning and teaching such things as Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, Design Patterns and Extreme Programming practices and principles, to name a few. Raymond is also an advocate of Alt.Net. Raymond is primarily a framework guy, so don't ask him anything about UI :)