My life is once again in transition. For those that don't want to read this entire post, I'm shifting my work-life to focus more on freelance. So, with some regrets (but also excitement) I'm leaving pingVision, the Drupal shop based in Boulder Colorado for new adventures. In this new role as projects wrap up I'll write about what I've experienced and learned.

My goal is to leverage my experiences as a technologist and nonprofit professional to continue to affect positive change.

What a great 2.5 years this has been! I started at pingVision in the summer of 2007 with expectations of working on great projects and with fabulous people. I was not disappointed. I've worked, in one fashion or another, on about thirty sites in that time. The highlights include:

• Spectrum Magazine
• Popular Science Magazine
• Bikes Belong
• Red Blue America
• two sites for Stanford University
• Classic Graphics | Opus
• Earthday.net
• Paul Taylor Dance
• Firehouse.com
• SportingNews

The richness of working on such a diversity of projects ranging from the arts, to universities, to nonprofits, to political, to activism has been wonderful. I want to take a moment to thank Katherine Lawrence and Laura Scott for asking me to join pingVision. I've enjoyed working with an amazing group of Drupal professionals.

Over the last week I've been in a bit of transition from being an employee of pingVision to becoming a freelancer. I've been wrapping up the last details of a cool Drupal project that will launch soon. From time to time I may work on projects with the pingVision team but I'm available for freelance work. If you have interest in my experience as a project manager, Linkedin is a good place to start. You can also follow my tweetstream on twitter by following @creech. You can call me at (720) 254-1546 if you have a project in mind.

I have been setting up my Personal Gallery and a setup that allows me to easily share the site system with other artists.

I'll continue to work on my labour of love, TraumaAdoption.org, a site which supports families in the fostering and adoptive communities navigate through the challenges of a different kind of parenting.

I've also been working on another collective project with quite a few other Drupal pros out there in the community. Over the coming weeks I'll write about what we're up to and who's involved. I think it will prove to be pretty exciting.

What is the thread through all of this? Opensource and Drupal.

So here is a shout out to some of the staff who I've worked with during this time at pingVision (sorry if I have forgotten anybody):

• Kevin Bridges
• Radovan "Rad" Anzulovic
• Greg Hines
• Al Steffen
• Andy Lasda
• Greg Knaddison
• Ezra Gildesgame
• Andy Kirkham
• Ben Jeavons
• Elizabeth House
• Karyn Cassio
• Mike Trim
• John Fiala
• Matt Tucker
• Zach Meyer
• Jen Schultes
• Claudia Peck-Kiousis
• Stacey Harrison
• Don Hajicek
• Kandee DeGraw
• Kevin Lapalme
• Laurie Olson
• Montana Henke
• Simone Haug
• Yvonne Yancey
• Ian Shorrock
• Amber Schlueter
• Amy Tremper

I've learned something from everybody that I worked with over this period. You've all enriched my life - so thanks.

photo credit - TW Collins on Flickr