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Mosso

Why I Love What I Do

June 16, 2009

First, it’s all about the people.  From the Rackspace Chairman (Graham Weston), who I met long before I started working here, to the Racker I met in a fast food joint at lunch – there is an immediate sense of “family”.  We are Rackers.  We speak the same language.  What specific JOB we do isn’t [...]

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In these times, being proud of where you work seems unusual

April 5, 2009

Unless you are just really, really lucky.
I am.
About ten months or so ago I took a position at Rackspace, in their Cloud Computing Division.  A LOT has changed in that division in that amount of time.  It has grown like crazy – both in the customer base and the headcount.  We’ve brought on some new [...]

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A change at work

December 3, 2008

I recently changed positions at work.  Instead of managing developers and QA I will be “managing” thousands of customers.  My new title is, “Director of Customer Development”.
While I will miss directly mentoring people, this does seem to be a role I have spent years preparing for.  From my years running a public dial-up BBS years [...]

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The Rackspace Cloud Event

October 20, 2008

I’ll be in Austin, TX for the next couple of days.  I am going to the Rackspace Cloud Event.  It should be fun, and we’ve all been working really hard on making it a reality.
I’ll write more about it after I’m allowed to talk more about it
But I encourage you to watch the [...]

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A Day Away with Team Mosso

October 4, 2008

We had a team outing yesterday, on the Guadelupe River in New Braunfels (about 30 minutes from our offices).
Our host was none other than the Rackspace Chairman, Graham Weston, whom I have been lucky enough to know for about 6 months or so.
Graham fed us, we drank some of his beer (just a LITTLE [...]

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