Future, good news, bad news, a bit of everything really…

05Apr11

I currently find myself in an intriguing position, it is weird because this is one of the happiest/saddest posts I have ever made in my entire life in any of the blogs I wrote in. Let me explain to you why:

Reading over the past few blog entries, you will notice that I announced I had been offered a position as a Research demonstrator and a PhD at University of Bedfordshire, this was amazing, I know that it was an amazing offer and it also if you read my previous post I had never received an offer from a company that would tempt me into the enterprise world.

Well for the last couple of weeks, a set of personal life situations has put me in a position where I felt like re-thinking my work situation, these situations combined with an amazing possibility that presented it self in form of a job, I decided that it was indeed time for me to get an actual job, I have been to the interview and will be joining the application security team at Realex payments. What does this mean to me?

• This blog will be shut down, “why?” you might ask, because as part of my job requirements (and much to my pleasure and honor) I will be blogging at the securityninja website.
• I will be working with people that are well respected in the Infosec industry and have spoken in big conferences.
• I will be moving out of Luton, the job is based in Dublin, Ireland.
• I will at some point after I adapt to the new job, join a PhD at one of the Universities from Dublin.

To finalize this post, I would just like to say thanks to:

• My mother for the infinite support she has given me, may that be monetarily, and/or mental. I will never be able to repay all U’ve done for me.
• Elina I also thank you for all your support. you rock and I believe the Dublin times are gonna rock! *fingers crossed to you getting into Uni there*
• Prof. Carsten Maple, you have been and always were an amazing supervisor and a good friend of whom I will keep good memories and have a LOT to thank for, I don’t think I can ever thank you enough.
• Mr Geraint Williams, I really enjoyed learning about forensics from you, and how to deal  with the legal part of a pentest project, I hope that we  can work in some sort of project together in the future.
• Nabeel, you helped me out a LOT and I am really looking forward to your visit my friend. You are like a brother to me and I really thank you for everything you’ve done.

I am happy, because I know I will be joining an amazing team (I have to thank David Rook for the amazing support he has been giving me in the past month with all the changes and process I can see that you will be an amazing person to work with and learn from), and I will learn a lot and do a lot of interesting work, I am sad because once again I will have to leave friends and people that became very close to me in the past 2 years behind.  I will miss you all Luton lot but this is the path I have decided to follow…

Thank you and farewell

T.

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