Bryce Johnson is senior vice president and general counsel of Vignette, company that bought Micronets Corporation in apr. 2008, in other words: he’s one of my bosses from the US. Once in a while, bosses from Vignette are visiting us, and those times we usually go out to dinner together.

Mr Johnson was Chief Legal Counsel for Tivoli Systems Inc. and Associate General Counsel of IBM Corporation before working for Vignette. It was a pleasure meeting and talking with him. The dinner was a great opportunity to know him, and also to know more about my coworkers.

Bryce M. Johnson and me

Micronets Corporaton is still a small company with about 20 programmers, they were bought by world wide known Vignette company(with around 850 workers). Just yesterday I found out, that Micronets is extending, they want to hire 6-8 programmers :), so things are looking just better and better.

It is funny how things work out. One year ago, while still working for Spin Development, I had an interview at Micronets Corporation. It went well, but I turned off their offer. Bianca, one of my coworkers at Spin Development accepted their offer, and this year called me, asking if I would like to change my workpace.

I sad maybe , and started to negociate with Micronets Corporation again. Things have changed there in the last year and I accepted their offer. So, after working for 4 years at Spin Development(formerly called Virtualro Multimedia) on 29 aug 2008 I had my last workday at Spin Development and started to work on 01 sept 2008 at Micronets Corporation.

I started my work 3 weeks ago, I meet many great software developers there. I’m working on the Flash Developers team with Bianca (my ex coworker from Spin Development) and Anca. I hope, the Flash team will be extended soon, there is a lot of work to do .

The working conditions are great in the office, there is quiet, good management, profesionalism, great and challenging projects. I hope to work for them many many years from now on, there are things that were better at my previouse workplace (like the work hours, the possibility to grow, the technology used) but I will try to do my best here.

It is the place where all started. After graduating in 2004 the Faculty of Computer Science, “Babes - Bolyai” University, Cluj - Napoca, Spin Development(formerly called Virtualro Multimedia) was my first workplace.

It was a small company, less then 10 people, but they were great. I learned a lot there about Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Php, MySql, AmfPHP and many other great things.

After 4 years of developing Adobe Flash and Flex applications, I decided, that is time to move on, and I started to work for Micronets Corporation. Right now, it seams like a good decision.

LE. 6 months after I left from Spin Development they faced bankruptcy. The main cause is the world wide known recession. They are having a really good e-commerce solution to sell (check http://virtualro.com/) but it’s a difficult time to search for buyers.
Lets hope things will turn around and Spin Development will raise again with their shopping cart.

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