At 22 years with Autodesk, many consider me an “old timer”, but I’m really not compared to others at Autodesk. Internally back in the day Autodesk employees referred to themselves as “deskers”, and “old timers” was a term of respect for those with a 20 year gold badge or more.
Last week at the One Team Conference, we celebrated 35 years for Simon Jones of GCD (Autodesk Global Consulting Delivery). Simon has accomplished so much for AEC at Autodesk and consulting in those years. Its hard to fathom and also keep in mind Autodesk is only 38 years old, so when Simon joined it was a 3 year old start up and Simon was what, 16 years old?
Congratulations Simon! Hopefully for the 40 year recognition you will show up on stage. I know, you were busy working on a project.
We had a fun activity where all Autodesk employees in the room lined up by years at the company with Simon at one end and then a new hire clear over on the other side of the room.
Also Simon, taking in well deserved…