Hello.  My name is Jerry Duggan, and I am starting a new phase of my professional life, and I would like to share it with you.

I am a professional Software Engineer.  I had been working for the past twenty-four years at Hewlett-Packard in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.  During this time at HP, I’ve done a lot of cool things, met a lot of great people, and traveled to a lot of exciting destinations.  I’ve spent most of my time in Research and Development doing product development, with brief stints in Marketing here and there.  Most recently (well, for the past decade or so), I have been working software to manage IT systems, specifically storage networks.  In addition to product development on HP’s Storage Essentials, I spent a lot of time working with the Storage Networking Industry Alliance working on SMI-S, a standard model for storage management.

That was then…  I have recently decided to move on and try something new.  It turns out that Northern Colorado is a hotbed of Alternative Energy research.  One particular area that is of interest to me is the Smart Grid, where the electric power infrastructure is being modernized to accommodate renewable energy and distributed electricity generation.  I figure a lot of the problems that need to be addressed in the Smart Grid are similar to problems that have been addressed by IT management systems.  So I should be able to take my background and leverage it to the Smart Grid.

Another new area for me is that I am starting my own business, providing my expertise in software development for hire.  This is turning out to be quite an adventure in itself, starting a new business from scratch.

My plan is to blog about all of this — software development topics, Alternative Energy / Smart Grid topics, and starting a new business in Northern Colorado topics.  If any of this is of interest to you, stay tuned and I will share my learnings with you.  Or, if you have some insights on any of these topics, share them with me.  I’m always interested in learning something new.

jpd