Tien Chiu

  • Home
  • About
    • Honors, Awards, and Publications
  • Online Teaching
  • Gallery
  • Essays
  • Book
  • Blog
  • Dye samples
You are here: Home / All blog posts / New gig!
Previous post: Invoking the Muse
Next post: Sample warp

May 9, 2013 by Tien Chiu

New gig!

My Secret Project is complete! After three months of job-hunting, today I accepted an offer from Skybox Imaging, a startup in Mountain View. I’ll be coordinating five software teams as well as improving processes across the company – a perfect match for my professional interests.

As an additional bonus, Skybox is doing The Coolest Stuff Ever. At least, it’s doing the coolest stuff I’ve seen since I came to the Valley over a decade ago. They are doing high-resolution satellite imagery – which is only mildly interesting until you realize that they are building the satellites themselves!! They are making small satellites about the size of a dorm fridge, from off-the-shelf parts, and writing all the software to control the satellite, fly it, and download the data. This is so infinitely cool I can’t even begin to tell you how cool it is. So I am super excited about this position. So thrilled, in fact, that I can’t sleep and am writing blog posts instead. 🙂

I’ll be starting at Skybox on May 28. I can hardly wait!

Share this post!

  • Tweet
  • More
  • Email
  • Share on Tumblr
  • Print

Filed Under: All blog posts

Previous post: Invoking the Muse
Next post: Sample warp

Comments

  1. Louise Adams says

    May 9, 2013 at 12:52 am

    Congratulations!

  2. Lynne says

    May 9, 2013 at 6:28 am

    CongaRats

  3. Dawn Sare says

    May 9, 2013 at 6:48 am

    Tien, the new job sounds just wonderful! We should all have jobs that make us excited to go to work every day.

  4. Ruth says

    May 9, 2013 at 6:52 am

    Congrats!

  5. Hal Zina Bennett says

    May 9, 2013 at 7:35 am

    Refrigerators in the sky. It reminds me of the old favorite screen saver: toasters in the sky. Of course, I understand they’re much more than refrigerators. And congratulations. You’re rather an amazing person with all the things you do. I’m awed.

  6. terri says

    May 9, 2013 at 2:57 pm

    congratulations–enjoy the new job!

  7. Meg says

    May 9, 2013 at 6:49 pm

    Hope it’s everything you wish for 🙂

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Information resources

  • Dye samples
    • Procion MX fiber-reactive dye samples on cotton
    • How to "read" the dye sample sets
    • Dye sample strategy - the "Cube" method
  • How-Tos
    • Dyeing and surface design
    • Weaving
    • Designing handwoven cloth
    • Sewing

Blog posts

  • All blog posts
    • food
      • chocolate
    • musings
    • textiles
      • dyeing
      • knitting
      • sewing
      • surface design
      • weaving
    • writing

Archives

Photos from my travels

  • Dye samples
    • Procion MX fiber-reactive dye samples on cotton
    • How to "read" the dye sample sets
    • Dye sample strategy - the "Cube" method
  • Travels
    • Thailand
    • Cambodia
    • Vietnam
    • Laos
    • India
    • Ghana
    • China

Travel Blog

Entertaining miscellanies

© Copyright 2016 Tien Chiu · All Rights Reserved ·

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.