Andrews Family

I figured I should post on this before it isn’t considered "new" anymore. About 2 months ago, I transitioned into a new position at work. I’m still working for National Instruments, I just moved into a new role. Previously, I was the Product Support Engineer (PSE) for LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW PDA. So what is a Product Support Engineer? Well, that was always kind of hard to explain, but basically I was the last guy in the chain of people to solve the problems our customers had with those products. I enjoyed it and it was always challenging (which also meant stressful). After 2 years as PSE, with 3 years before that in Applications Engineering, I was needing a change from working on support issues. Luckily, I was offered a Software Engineer position in the LabVIEW Real-Time group. It’s a lot easier job to explain - basically I’m a computer programmer. I primarily program in LabVIEW, aka "G" which stands for graphical since LabVIEW is a graphical programming language, but I also work some in C++. Being a mechanical engineer by education, I was a little worried about what I was getting myself into, but things have been going really well. My first project is something that I’m really excited about and I really enjoy actually "making" something. I don’t mean to imply that it isn’t stressful or challenging, though - we’ll see how much blogging I’m doing closer to the end of the release cycle!