Opportunity Knocking - City of Dunwoody is Hiring

... a Community Development Director

Excerpted essential job duties from the official description linked above:

•Supervise the initiation, amendment, and implementation of ordinances and resolutions relevant to community development such as zoning, land division and development, and building;



•Assures that citizen complaints and inquiries relating to departmental activity are researched and resolved in a timely fashion;




•Communicates official plans, programs, policies and procedures to staff and the general public;

•Directs ongoing research into new technologies and trends, and recommends implementation of programs and equipment to help the Department achieve its objectives more efficiently;


•Coordinates, researches and evaluates projects and programs that will enhance and preserve the City’s economic base;
 


•Ability to identify the department’s future direction in response to changing community needs, and to develop, implement, and monitor appropriate plans, schedules, and action steps;


Can you say "Hot Potato"?  I knew you could.  :-)  Who will step up and put their hat in the ring for this one?

Remember in an earlier post (linked here) where I said you can learn a lot about an elected official by who they appoint or hire?  The Council has final say on City hires and policies to be implemented - but it's people in roles like that that tell them what direction to go in, policy-wise.

Let's pay attention to who applies and who gets hired.  That could put an awfully big spin on some referendums coming up, as well as elections.

Speaking of which, I'm still waiting to see if there will be any responses to my one-woman campaign forum.  IMHO, I'll know who's responsive to the average Dunwoody citizen, and who may not be, based on who bothers to answer and who doesn't.  But like everything else, that's just one opinion.  That ends up on this blog.

Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011

Everything we do on a computer today - streaming movies and animation, picking out a font in our email, to animated apps on our phone - is because of Steve Jobs and Apple Computer.  They're the reason I have a job today, and impacts every bit of my design and programming choices.

My family got its first computer - a Mac Plus - when I was 14.  I remember being fascinated by the "mouse" and how I had to sync an audio tape with the "Intro" program to follow the tutorial instructions.

My sophomore year in college, I was the only person on the dorm floor to have a computer - this time a Mac SE.  TWO floppy disk slots and an external hard drive.  I was hot sh*t in a champagne glass and I knew it.  The MacPaint program saved my life in the sterochemistry chapter of Organic Chemistry 204.  With my ImageWriter 2 printer I had the best documents in Warren Towers and the grades to show for it.

Today, whenever I create a website (especially the Dunwoody Chamber and a number of new projects coming up) a key question is "How is this going to look on an iPhone?"  "Do we need to make this mobile?"  The answer to that last one isn't always "yes" but it always has to be considered.

Rest in peace, Steve.  You did it - you changed the world.  I think for the better.

Straight Outta Dunwoody

BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I see wahy this was trending on Twitter after the DHA meeting last night!