Sept. 9: Bryan speaking, here… I wanted to share a piece of exciting news: I’m going to be starting a new job next week. For some time I’ve known that my job at Widen hadn’t been the most fulfilling thing I could have been doing with my career and that I’d like to be doing something a little more meaningful to me. I was very pleased to find a job opening that appealed to me and even more pleased that they called me back and, after a couple of interviews, decided that I would be a good person to join their team.
The new company is called OpGen, which is a small, startup bio-tech company located on Madison’s west side. I’m very excited about this opportunity for many reasons. First, the company is looking to create a diagnostic devices and software that could be used to make significant improvements in the detection of diseases in patients, This is precisely the “more meaningful” type of work that I’ve been looking for. Second, I will get to be a part of a small, core team that helps
build this company. Currently there are approximately 8 people in the company and I will be the second person in the Software Development group. Finally, I get to be invested in the company through some stock options.
In summary, I’m going to start working as a core member
of a new project, developing biomedical software that will improve peoples lives and, if successful, stand to make some good money out of it too. In all, this is about the ideal situation for a software developer. I’m very excited about the potential that I see in this new job and I hope that it pans out to be as good as I hope will be.