Peter Wooley's Blog

As you have no doubt heard, Tyler Sticka has announced that he will be leaving McAfee. Many of you know that Tyler and I attended the Art Institute of Portland together and, since then, we formed the first Interaction Design team at US Digital (along with Erik Jung), taught at the Art Institute of Portland, and were working closely on Enterprise software at McAfee.

Designing and developing with Tyler is an exhilarating experience. He’s quick, thoughtful, and engaging—and I know he’ll continue to go further as he takes his next step.

With our history, I imagine some might think I’ll be leaving to join Tyler in the near future. I want to say that, while working with Tyler is a ton of fun, I have no plans to leave McAfee. My current role has been, and is, an exciting challenge. With just over a month and a half under my belt, I’m enjoying both the people and code I get to develop with. The five day work weeks have been a little tough to get used to, along with the commute, but free soda and fast-paced, testable, continuously-integrated web development is awesome.

While we may not be working under the same roof, do not fret; professionally we are not done.

I’m excited to announce that I’ve accepted a UI Development position at McAfee.

This June 1st, I’ll join an amazing group of people developing the best software in the industry. In addition, I’ll be working with an old friend who recently made a similar transition.

With this great opportunity, I must bid farewell to the wonderful people of US Digital. The experience and guidance I’ve received over the past two years will be indispensable as I move forward. I will forever remember the dynamic and collaborative team, along with the many challenges overcome, problems solved, and triumphs shared.

(Apologies to Tyler Sticka for the image and, subsequently, Alex Ross for the illustration.)

I finished my homework as best I could for my class in the morning. I must say it is not my best work. It is a marketing class and I chose a product to analyze and market by the name of Firefox. While a great and mighty product, the fact that it is open source and free has made it really, really difficult. Any time we discuss price or cost, my mind gets confused, as Firefox is mostly free, save for the download time and install. I just have to get through the class.

This is certainly not me giving up, but if given the chance, I’d take a “pass” if I could just duck out. Not even that. If I could just go and learn without having to do the homework, that’d be great! Alas, life is not so sweet and I must be up in a few hours.

I’m sitting in my comfy chair in my comfy fleece in my comfy room. Here it is that I lay down my first permanent post to this so-called blog. I’m not a huge fan of that word, as I am sure you know (or will find out), but I must face the truth – they are here to stay.

Today was a good day. I had the pleasure of spending 7 hours at work, most of which was spent working on an ongoing project I am attempting to wrap up. I had a delightful time doing it. I learned a few things and thought through a lot more. Not to mention, I put some of the finishing touches on the back-end of this site, so I could sit comfortably here and write this out. I have to admit it is nice knowing I have somewhere I can write and give other people the ability to see what’s going on in my head or life.I am currently on the brink of Homework Valley. If I’m lucky, I’ll fall slowly and gently to the bottom, but I have a feeling it will be more of a thud. On that note, I should probably say farewell and get to work. So, Farewell!