It’s official. Amy has accepted a job as the head of research for a new center for Autism in Phoenix, Arizona. She will be employed by the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) which is one of the largest organizations in the world for the treatment of Autism. It’s a great opportunity for her and one we couldn’t pass up.

She will graduate with her PhD in May and start work in June. This means we are moving during the last week of May/first week of June.

I will stay on with Twelve Horses in business development. Being in Phoenix will gives me an opportunity to open a new office for Twelve Horse. The Phoenix metro area – which includes cities like Scottsdale, Tucson, Glendale, and many others – has a population of around 3.8 million. With close to 10 times the population of the Reno area, my plan is to grow business hand over fist. I will also be even closer to Las Vegas allowing me to better help grow business there.

We are still in the process of selling our house which could be a sticky point. It won’t affect us leaving but could severely affect our cash flow.

We are all very excited.

You are an Attentive Leader.

Your solid grounding in the practicalities of life, along with your self-assuredness and your willingness to appreciate new things make you a LEADER.

You’re in touch with what is going on around you and adept at remaining down-to-earth and logical.

Although you’re detail-oriented, this doesn’t mean that you lose the big picture.

You tend to find beauty in form and efficiency, as opposed to finding it in broad-based, abstract concepts.

Never one to pass on an adventure, you’re consistently seeking and finding new things, even in your immediate surroundings.

Because of this eagerness to pursue new experiences, you’ve learned a lot; your attention to detail means that you gain a great deal from your adventures.

The intellectual curiosity that drives you leads you to seek out causes of and reasons behind things.

Your confidence gives you the potential to take your general awareness and channel it into leadership.

You’re not set on one way of doing things, and you often have the skills and persistence to find innovative ways of facing challenges.

You are well-attuned to your talents, and can deal with most problems that you face.

You’re not afraid to let your emotions guide you, and you’re generally considerate of others’ feelings as well.

You prefer to have time to plan for things, feeling better with a schedule than with keeping plans up in the air until the last minute.

Generally, you believe that you control your life, and that external forces only play a limited role in determining what happens to you.

If you want to be different:
There’s more to life than the practical – take some time to daydream and explore the aesthetic sides of things.

Strength

I think my biggest strength is the ability to go in as business development and win over the techies. Whether they are hard code system analysts or network engineers, I can speak their speak and gain their trust. It’s easy to articulate to marketers but it’s a skill to articulate to geeks.

Weakness

I am a natural pessimist. This isn’t by choice and I’m not sure where it comes from, but it’s there. I can get very excited by new technologies and very passionate about things I’m interested in, but I’ve noticed my first reaction to most new ideas is pessimism.

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