Oh, seems like another good time for a pause for station identification. I do these periodically to let folks know what this (as of late, slow) blog is all about.
Me
Hello, folks. My name is Charlie Schick. I am a Director on the Big Data sales team at IBM. I am a sales consultant with industry expertise in Healthcare and Life Sciences (I have a PhD, by the way). I thoroughly enjoy this job, as it allows me to talk science and healthcare and cavort with care providers and research scientists, all while working for an amazing tech leader.
Prior to that I was at Children’s Hospital Boston (as fundraiser and as scientist and faculty – though roles separated by a decade) and Nokia (in marketing and product management). If you’re interested in knowing more of my tenure at those two places, feel free to invite me to lunch or beer.
Practical microbiology (and then some)
Throughout my life, I have dabbled in many things – building things from bio-molecules to web publications to communities. I am always happy to get deep into the tech (bio or otherwise) and get my hands dirty and tinker. In the past few years, I’ve returned to my first love – biology – and have been studying the practical uses of microbiology, such as probiotics, functional foods, physiology, and the like (just see the things I’ve been posting and commenting on here on this site and on Twitter).
Thinking rather than doing
Alas, I have a wide range of interests (see my About page) and I have a very active family, so I’m more of a thinker than a doer. I suppose one day I’ll pair with the right doer for my thinking and we’ll have a blast. Until then, I’ll keep writing and fermenting foods.
As I said before, if you want to learn more, I’m in the Boston area and always welcome a free beer.
And of course, my standard disclaimer (riffing off of Cringley)
Everything I write here on this site is an expression of my own opinions, NOT of my employer, IBM. If these were the opinions of IBM, the site would be called ‘IBM something’ and, for sure, the writing and design would be much more professional. Likewise, I am an intensely trained professional writer :-P, so don’t expect to find any confidential secret corporate mumbo-jumbo being revealed here. Everything I write here is public info or readily found via any decent search engine or easily deduced by someone who has an understanding of the industry.
On the flip side, this is my personal site. Please don’t flood me with ideas that you think IBM might be interested in. There are other channels for such biz dev, and this site is not part of them.
