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Look, I think we can all agree that The Godfather III sucked, and was a black mark on an otherwise amazing trilogy. The one (and probably only) highlight of the movie was Pacino giving us the sound-bite, “Just when I thought I was out, The pull me back in!”. And so we welcome Dave Paroulek to the Function1 team.

As you may or may not know, the WCI professional services world isn’t all that big. Your options for finding quality consultants are pretty much either: Oracle (for an un-godly hourly tab), us, or a couple of other firms with WCI expertise. The small resource pool of qualified WCI consultants means that when we’re looking to bring new folks on board, we start by talking to people we’ve worked with in the past (usually at Plumtree/BEA/Oracle). These folks are a know quantity, and we know they’ll represent Function1 well and make our customers happy. Such is the case with Dave. Dave is another long-time Plumtree->BEA->Oracle guy who took a little different career path than the rest of the Plumtree alumni at Function1. He put his time in working for Plumtree Public Sector professional services, and then moved onto the BEA Services Engineering team. In this capacity, Dave was focused on designing, developing, and delivering WCI add-on software directly to customers. But his development experience doesn’t stop there. About a year and a half or so ago, Dave left the mothership and took a full-time gig doing software development (specifically, playing around with GWT).

And now he’s back in the fold. Absence makes the heart grow fonder I suppose, and when we talked to Dave about coming on board at Function1, he was all about it. Dave comes to Function1 helping us codify our software development practices and expertise, and continue on our quest to take over the world, err, provide world class services and software to customers everywhere. We’re tickled pink to have Dave with us: be on the lookout for more kick-ass blog posts on software development tips and best practices from him soon.