The Big Move and New Position at Kitware

Posted by Marcus D. Hanwell on

On Monday 21 September we packed the majority of our belongings into the back of a Penske truck and made the 500 mile drive (in convoy - Louise, William, Dax and myself) from Pittsburgh, PA to Clifton Park, NY. Since then we have been unloading the truck, unpacking our things into our new home and doing all those things you have to do when you move house, and several things necessary when moving between states and jobs.

Me in the Penske truck before returning it

This is certainly the most rural house I have lived in since I was very young. We found a nice duplex on the outskirts of Clifton Park, it uses well water and I am the proud owner of the contents of two full propane tanks (no natural gas lines run out to the house). We also have a really nice wood fire in the living room, and I snagged the family room and am using it as a large home office! Thankfully they were able to hook up a cable Internet connection on Tuesday last week, and so I was not offline for too long.

Tomorrow is my first day with Kitware, I will be attending a training course being run by Kitware for the remainder of the week and so won't have my first day in the office until next Monday. I will be working in the scientific visualization group on projects such as ParaView, and have had lots of ideas for future Avogadro development over the last few weeks. I am very much looking forward to working in some new areas, but also to enhancing the previous research and development I have done in the area of visualization in chemistry. I am also looking forward to working on CMake.

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Benoit Jacob on :

Benoit JacobVery glad to see that you found a nice place to live.

You're now mentioned here, http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page#Credits
Can you make sure that the information is accurate, otherwise edit it :-)

Mark Kretschmann on :

Mark KretschmannCongratulations on your new job, Marcus. Kitware is a really good company, I'm a big CMake fan :-)

Florian D. on :

Florian D.have fun in your new job and thank you very much for your contributions to gentoo so far!
now, perhaps we get the chance to get ebuilds for ITK (Insight Toolkit) and Insight Applications into the tree...? that would be great..

Marcus D. Hanwell on :

Marcus D. HanwellI will have to see what I can do about the ITK stuff as and when I get the chance. I will actually be working more on the VTK and ParaView side of things, with a little CMake thrown in for good measure possibly.

Looking forward to next week, but currently my free time is reduced and so Avogadro/Gentoo may suffer a little...

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