supertom@yahoo.com
June 8th, 2007 by Mark
Today is Tom Melendez‘s last day at work. I remember the time before he started here pretty well. John Palmieri, who had been working here for a few years, had just taken a position with Red Hat, so we were looking to hire someone. I already knew Tom as I had been attending LIPHP for a while before this. When I overheard that some guy named ‘Tom’ would be coming in for an interview I immediately began to wonder if it was Tom Melendez or not. I was very psyched when I saw him sitting in the conference room for his interview.
Working with Tom these past few years has been a great experience and I wouldn’t have picked anyone else to work with. I learned a lot by working with Tom. The things that I learned weren’t limited to just technical things. I learned more about real estate, taxes, time management, setting priorities and all kinds of general life management things from Tom. I tried to spend a lot of spare time with him just to pick his brain and absorb as much of this stuff as possible.
It’s going to be weird at work with him not being here. I’m pretty confident that we’re going to continue to do great work, but I’m also pretty sure that it is going to be a little less fun for a while.
I wanted to wish Tom good luck at Yahoo!, and what better place to do that than on my blog. I’m sure he’s going to do great things with Yahoo! News and then go on to great things throughout Yahoo! and whatever company is lucky enough to have him next. Make us proud, Tom!
