It has been a few months since I have had the time to put in my few cents on this blog. Since the beginning of January I have been working for my new employer, Bloomberg L.P., first as an outside consultant and finally full-time as a senior software engineer. After accepting the six-week consultant position I was unsure if I would be accept a full-time position, but after mingling with the crowd and meeting a great group of talented programmers I was sold. So much to my pleasure I was offered an amazing position working for the OTC Equity Derivatives group in the Research and Development division at Bloomberg.
One of my key deciding factors to accepting the position was the fringe benefits; my graduate education would be reimbursed partly by Bloomberg as long as my grades are kept high. So, with that, I am going to be taking my Computer Science GRE very soon and applying to NYU and Columbia University (both in New York City) to work towards a Masters in Computer Science (specialization in software engineering).
I’ve finally started work on my writing community project after procrastinating for three long years. I picked up a Ruby/Rails book on the recommendation of JC and absolutely enjoyed what I was working with. So after many years of denying myself the time to spend on learning Ruby I have dove in headstrong over the past week and a half. My goal is to begin development this week and hopefully have a prototype ready by the middle of the summer for public consumption (see: beta). This project has been looming over my head ever since I started at NJIT and I am glad to finally get my hands dirty.
Welp, that is about it for this short and quick update on my life. I want to get into more of a blogging regimen as I have many things to say, but unfortunately the time spent learning Ruby, with my girlfriend and at the gym has left me exhausted by the time I sit down at the computer at night. I am barely able to stay away through a full episode of the flavor of the week on Hulu. But I promise (scout’s honor) to make more of an effort to ink more words.
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