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Hi, I'm Rob, the latest addition to the team here at hedgehog lab. I started here last Monday, and I've been given a rather large task with a equally large and looming deadline.

I am the Product Manager for solomon, and I will be leading all aspects of this project, including all of the development. I am eager to launch a beta release in early May, so I will be spending April solely working on Solomon. You can sign up for beta preview to help us squish any bugs and get an early look at what we are doing. I am looking forward to running this project, and if you have any queries or feature requests you can get in touch with me on our Get Satisfaction forums and I'll be more than happy to help.

I've been spending my first week analysing the requirements and design for Solomon and familiarising myself with the environment and the technologies that it uses. The atmosphere here at "the lab" is great, it's a fairly small office with five of us working in close proximity. The discussions we have about projects or problems usually involves scooting a chair over to desk-share or drawing everything up on the whiteboard, which give us a very flexible and productive environment.

I joined the lab straight from University, where I attained a MSc in Computer Security and Resilience. Being given this much responsibility immediately is a welcome challenge, It should give me plenty of project management experience, and I must admit I enjoy being given the snazzy title of "Product Manager" at the age of 22!
Outside of work and education, I spend a lot of time exploring new technologies; I recently learned Flex and Adobe AIR, and I have a feeling there might be some fancy new applications in the pipeline using the Fixx and Solomon APIs.

My life isn't all computers and coffee though: I am heavily involved in the South Shields volunteer lifeguard club; I teach lifesaving, give safety talks in schools and during the summer I spend as many days lifeguarding on the beach as possible.

For those of you interested in what Solomon will look like, here is a preview of the contacts feature:

I intend to follow Damian's trend of blogging snippets of product insights periodically, so as soon as the beta of Solomon is out you can expect to be hearing a lot more from me. Goodbye for now, there's code calling...

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