Dear friends,

After ten years working as a software developer in optical storage, I have decided to change career paths.  It has been an outstanding ten years, and I relish the fact that I was able to work with some of the smartest minds in many areas of the industry: optics experts, media specialists, firmware engineers, hardware engineers, software engineers, and of course the business folks.

I will continue to work at Microsoft, with the goal of becoming a patent agent (and later, a patent lawyer).  I have been looking for the particular job opening for approximately 18 months, and jumped at the chance when it appeared.  It was nevertheless a difficult decision, as I greatly enjoyed working with and interacting with each of you, and valued the friendships which have grown from our mutual interests.

As you know, I have already been increasing my reliance on my teammates for Fuji/MMC issues.  For those who have not already met these folks, please allow me to introduce David Burg (daviburg@microsoft.com) and David Walp (David.Walp@microsoft.com).  David Burg is the Lead who is managing the CDROM.SYS and IMAPIv2 development here in the Windows division.  He is technically astute, and has been kept up-to-date on the various goings on over the last few months.  David Walp is the Program Manager, whom many of you may already know from the MMC and Mt. Fuji meetings.  I have full confidence in their ability to engage in discussions and fill the role I had previously taken.

Thank you again for the honor and responsibility of taking part in these standards bodies, and all you have taught me. J

Henry Gabryjelski

Senior Software Development Engineer

US - Windows Device Experience

Microsoft Corporation