Reality... New Beginnings

Yes I know! Another period of being MIA on this blog. I've been busy shaking the boat at corporate and walking away on not so good terms. Now I work at a small company that's considered a start-up. I've never been so away from engineering . I manage our projects and see them come to life. It's nice because my hands are open in what needs to happen, I make a change in the world and I'm learning every single day. At the end of the day, the industry is not my passion and I work for someone else.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm just a dreamer. A girl who dreams big and is so naive to believe. Believe in humanity, believe in making a change, believe.. believe that she was put on this planet by a higher being to resolve problems and make an impact. Change... those 5 letters excite me. As you may have read in my posts, I've been talking about being an entrepreneur for a long time. I am full of ideas with a great lack of execution. Recently I really started being more involved. I want to make this happen. Sometimes I wonder, maybe I should just quit my work and focus on my ideas 100% of the time. Well, that won't be very logical now will it ? : - )
My partner and I got involved at PeopleSpace. They have tons of great advice, which really was like a reality slap to the face. We chose one of our many many many ideas and are making mock ups for it. Right now I'm working on the survey questions for it. I will be documenting our progress in here:
Jan 2012 :
Idea Generation
Jan 2013:
Idea Pivot
We stayed up till morning few nights out of our eureka moment = )
December 2013:
LLC - CSpeed Solution was formed
Jan 2014 and March 2014:
Lots of talk with a lack of action
Lots of $$$ spent to go to seminars
April 2014:
Bad corporate expereince, left without having a job, so started focusing on this again..
Elevator / taxi cab speeches were done
Started putting requirements and business deck together
June 2014:
Started looking for developers. Learned a lot:

• Don't go to India unless you are BIG
• Stay LOCAL so you can meet and greet
• Have your requirements ready

July 2014:
We tried to do the mockups ourselves. We are not really artsy, as we are engineers and know little about design. The tools out there for mockups were horrible! So we are now paying for a designer to design them for us.

Life as it is..

It's been awhile since I've written here. In fact over a year!
A lot changed in life, I thought a lot about what matters to me the most and why. I had to have a one on one with myself to come up with the answer. I went snowboarding, just me,myself, and I. I didn't want to talk about idealism and what I think matters to me, or what looks good to matte to me. I wanted to be able to say I've done x, y, and z; therefore, a matter to me the most . I dug really had into my past : growing up in Iran, coming to America, what I did as a child, what I didn't do as a teen, what I tried to accomplish as an adult.. and in the heart of it all lies the answer : Change! I wanted to be the agency of the change for the better. I've done that my whole life. I continued to do that, regardless of the limitations that wearing hijab brought upon me while in high school , and I do that till this day.. every single day..
I also got a new job. Leaving the company I was with, Raytheon, was very difficult. I had mixed feeling. I could not believe how sad I was , rather than happy, to say goodbye. To leave behind years of great work, to leave behind, colleagues who had became friends, and to start from scratch. Having to prove myself as a female engineer, who is more than just a bubble head. Change is good.. it's scary, but necessary. If we don' challenge ourselves, we'll never improve. All are cliches, but in reality, once you get used to change, it's not so bad. The thought of change, the idea behind it.. once we get agility, it is not at all so bad.

My new job is different... the culture is very very different. I'm still learning. Love my supervisor. I've been so "blessed" I've never worked for someone I don't like or someone who likes to micromanage me. Recently, I became a certified Scrum Master. Exciting things.. and just when I thought there's no way I can incorporate much of that at work, the opportunity presented itself for me to do just that. We are still in the pre- preliminary stages,but it's exciting.. to be the change agent , to foster a culture of collaboration, to make individuals act as a team, and to make products that are extra ordinary.

Innovations and I go way back.. I've been working with couple of people in my new company, trying to put together an innovation team, trying to empower engineers, trying to make dreamers dreams come to reality and make ideas into business opportunities.

My business partner and I mixed our passions for engineering and fitness and created StayFit. We are working very hard to make sure it comes to life. I love fitness, I love changing lives.. I love making people realize how CAPABLE they are and how much they can do. I love making people believe in the simple reality that mind is over body...

I can't lie.. I'm thankful.. for all I have..
"I own a loaf of bread, a bit of intelligence, a tiny amount of taste!
I possess a mother better than the leaf
Friends, better than the running brook
And a God who is nearby
Within these gillyflowers, at the foot of yonder lofty oak,
On the stream's awareness, on the plant's law "