Two weeks on the job

My blog has gone silent while I kept busy with a short break in between jobs on the East Coast, hosting my parents, camping for Memorial Day weekend and, of course, starting at McAfee.

The first two weeks on the job have been intense. A new environment and a new role for me, but also for the company. This means that not only do I have to get used to the new surroundings and responsibilities, but so do the people I work with. So far, I feel, this has gone very well. (This picture was taken at my desk at McAfee in Santa Clara, CA.)



For now my goal is to meet key people within the organization and come up with ways we can improve public relations at McAfee, become more open, transparent and raise the company's profile. It is a nice challenge that is already bearing some fruit. I can't say much about it publicly though. (That's another big change, my job as a reporter obviously used to be all about telling things publicly.)

My blog will be a personal journal, primarily meant for friends and family to get a peek at my life in the U.S. I don't expect to be writing much about work.