The Die is Cast

In my case the Rubicon was the duty free bottle shop right before immigration at Sydney Airport. Only Australians could put an upmarket booze outlet as the first sight a foreign visitor sees.

So for those that might have missed the news: I’m back in Australia (for the next few years at least). I still harbour an archetypical colonial desire to live, for a time, in the mother country. To live a near-legendary life in a small English village: with a pub, a second hand book shop and a vicar. For now I have made my home again in the Leviathan.

I’ve been back now for almost a month and it’s been one of the more interesting experiences of my life: immigrating to the city of my birth.

For living we’ve settled on the Bilgola Plateau. We bought the house over the internet (with invaluable assistance from kind relatives). I’m really happy with what we have – it’s not perfect – but no house is. But it’s a really great fit for us.

For career I’m now the Lead Architect (CRM) for Asia Pacific at Avanade. It’s been two weeks now in my new job and I am loving the return to the CRM space. I enjoyed my sojourn working the cloud at Microsoft and I learned a great deal from some top technical talent there. But my passion is line of business systems and this role is a great opportunity to indulge it.

For the next few posts I’ll focus a little on my social re-integration experiences. I’ll likely also begin to cover some CRM stuff. I have to figure out the style/rules of my new employer and whether I should be giving away my advice (after all my employer sells my advice). But “a rising tide floats all boats” so here’s a free one: Don’t use this feature. It’s really bad and bad things will happen to you, your CRM system and your family. It was removed from CRM 4.0 for a good reason (trust me – I was there – it’s really bad).

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