This is a theoretically quarterly update on what I’m doing where— although I think I’ve missed a few quarters.

You’re reading Ross Notes, which is my personal blog. It’s been around in various forms since 2003. Lately (although not so much at the moment) I’ve had aspirations of doing actual journalism here, hence the serious sounding tagline of "A journal of technology, media, and culture in and around DC". I haven’t totally given up on that yet, but I can’t say I’m trying very hard either. Most of my current readership comes from DC Tech Events Weekly, a calendar and weekly newsletter local tech events.

I’m the IT Manager at Strat@comm, a 60-ish person Public Relations firm with offices in DC and Detroit. My pre-strat career arc has basically been a series of increasingly fancier names for "tech support", and Strat@comm was the first company to realize I can do quite a bit more. Of course, being IT Manager at a small company does include a fair bit of end-user support, but I’m extraordinarily glad to be out of the product-support world. Strat@comm is a fun place, and I get to work on interesting projects.

I’m on Facebook about daily, have an ongoing love-hate relationship with Twitter (swinging back towards hate today, but that’ll likely change tomorrow), and really only log in to LinkedIn to approve new connections. I’m pretty active in sharing links with Google Reader and Delicious, especially now that I’ve integrated them with this blog in a way I like. My activity on those services and more are also aggregated on my FriendFeed page.

Offline and outside of work, I’m trying to learn to DJ— although I’ve often found myself just listening to stuff on records lately instead of actually practicing anything ;)