On the road again

Six weeks ago, it was with great joy and hopes that I joined GroupM, leav­ing behind the safety of a big bank for the more tumul­tuous waters of media and advertising.

At the time, how­ever, I did not expect things to turn as they just did: I’ve been laid off as I was told that a strate­gic deci­sion was made by GroupM to get rid of its project man­age­ment office. With no project man­age­ment office, there is no need for a project man­age­ment office direc­tor and so, I’m back on the job market.

The shock is still very fresh and I have to admit that I haven’t fully absorbed the blow. My boss was telling me that he was happy with the progress I was mak­ing. I was told my work was excel­lent; and then this.

It’s a sad fact that large cor­po­ra­tions do not look at the impact of their deci­sions on peo­ple and so I’m now faced with some­thing I’m not used to: an uncer­tain future, with unknown prospects.

So I’ve dusted up my resume and I’m start­ing to pass it around.I’ve also updated my Linkedin pro­file and sent a twit­ter mes­sage out to my “fol­low­ers”. I’m won­der­ing if there’s any other “social net­work” related things I ought to do.

I will enter­tain any oppor­tu­nity in the New York area (I do not plan to relo­cate) and, to sum them up, my skills encom­pass a wide vari­ety of areas from project man­age­ment (fol­low­ing some of the mod­els estab­lished by PMI and apply­ing them with a practitioner’s eye to what works and doesn’t, both on a local imple­men­ta­tion or on a global one), tech­nol­ogy (it appears, based on recent expe­ri­ence, that I have a deeper under­stand­ing of tech­nolo­gies relat­ing to the inter­net than a lot of my peers), and strat­egy (read­ers of my blog are famil­iar with some of my strate­gic positioning)

Based on this, I think that I could eas­ily fit into exec­u­tive roles in soft­ware devel­op­ment, pro­gram (or port­fo­lio) man­age­ment, and prod­uct management.

I hope you will all be able to help me in my search for a new posi­tion. If you hear any­thing, drop me a note and thanks in advance for your help.