So as you may have guessed by the title I am moving on from EVGA.  Sounds weird saying that, as September would have been 9 years.  I was here for the launch of the X58s, the early days of Natemans CNC projects (I am still concerned that your basement will lead to machines building machines, and eventually skynet), and Hallowens earlier adventures in Phase change.  I have watched the tech industry grow and change, while at some level all staying the same.  EVGA was never a place I intended to land at, but when the economy imploded in 2008 I, along with 30% of the company I was at was laid off in one day, and after some temp jobs EVGA gave a home to a wayward IT guy.

In my time here I trained tons of new techs, learned a lot, and found a community I have really enjoyed being a part of.  I have thoroughly enjoyed these forums, and I hope my posts have been helpful over the years, or at least amusing, granted text doesn't always do justice to dry/dead pan humor.  I just tried to add some help from things I have experienced, tried to help fix some stuff, and add some more humor to the boards, and somehow along the way my word seemed to start carrying some real weight behind it.  Was never my intention, especially as someone who generally tries to keep a low profile, but I am pleasantly surprised, and even being out of customer service for a few years, I seem to be the go to guy in house as well.
I will be around on the forums some, I will have to make a new account and whatnot, just realized I won't hit my 5k milestone, well crap, not getting it now.  EVGA was an experience I wouldn't trade, made some lifelong friends here, and unfortunately buried a couple too, and took my hardware knowledge up several notches, not just for my own uses, but also learned from helping others, and learned from training the other techs as well, you learn a lot breaking things down to teach it more effectively, and I feel I am a better tech with a deeper understanding from learning to teach it.  Heck, the current Customer Service Manager for the US side is a guy I trained, and I believe they are in good hands, as are you all as customers.
Looking forward to more time talking about stuff I never thought someone would build in their basement (Nateman), the car talk (Zophar and Hallowen), and so much other general stuff from music, to weight training, to failing in the I LOLd so hard thread.  It will be strange, not hearing EVGATech_LeeM's baaaaad puns all day, or the several here like Rob (EVGARobB), Jaeson (EVGATech_JaesonW), and some others with our love of cooking SPICEY food, Jacobs really left field jokes, Jacob never trusting my food judgement again after I got him to try a Moruga Scorpion (I tried it first), and all the gushing about various scifi franchises and cars too.

So farewell all, and I will be around as I can with a new screen name.  Take care all, it has been a heck of a ride and one I will not forget.

 
Cheers Dave - sorry to see you go, I bet that 9 years went way faster than you thought possible, time flies when you're having fun! Can we ask where your next adventure is leading you to? Onward and upward I hope, wherever it may be! Hope you stick around the forums.
 
Take care, and hopefully EVGA can keep your forum account and just remove you from the tech/moderator groups.
 
Cheers!
 
p.s. props for the Douglas Adams thread title reference.
 
 

Good luck and thanks for all your help over the years.
 

Thanks Dave for helping EVGA become what it is today --> a great community and even better hardware
 
I would think the webmaster could just change your user name and credentials ---> as far as the 5k milestone goes ?
 
Enjoy your next adventure

Wow, 9 years is a lot of time to leave and start something new, especially at a job that you seemed to really like. Wherever your going I hope it ends up just as fun, interesting, and personally gratifying as this one was. Good luck to you Dave and hopefully youll be able to make just as much time to hang here with us still.

Don't be a stranger here on the forum.  

Hopefully you are moving on to something rewarding for you and your family and good to hear you plan to stick around the forums. I always like to hear when people leave a job and still like the company they worked for.

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Don't leave us Dave.
 
In all seriousness I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors. You've definitely been a LOT of help with some off the wall questions I've had. Also it's always fun to see someone else with interests in cars and computers and I hope that we still have many conversations to come about the two subjects .

Thank you!

Quick, someone at EVGA grab his towel!  He can't leave without a towel!

zophar
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Don't leave us Dave.
 
In all seriousness I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors. You've definitely been a LOT of help with some off the wall questions I've had. Also it's always fun to see someone else with interests in cars and computers and I hope that we still have many conversations to come about the two subjects .

Thanks for the warm wishes, I have had some off the wall problems, so I can do off the wall questions :)  And most definitely yes, we share those interests, and there will be more conversations!
 
@Quadlatte
Yeah, pretty much.  I think this is the best move for me right now.
 
@Randolla
You are welcome!
 
@NotFordMan
Glad to have been here4, and I will definitely visit.
 
 
It is really great getting this feedback form the community, thanks a lot guys.

Well, I don't want to carp on your parade, so instead I'll say that if there is a manual you've liked from EVGA, Dave probably worked on it.  Despite often being thrawn against tight deadlines, he's done his best to fill manuals with as much technical information as possible.  You also have him to thank for one of the best RAID guides in a motherboard manual, as well as the dustiest RAID FAQ ever written.
 
This community is fortunate to have many people who recognize the difficulty of both providing accurate technical information and the sometimes thankless side of it when things change at the last minute without an opportunity to correct it.  If nothing else, for everyone who's run into an issue or two with an EVGA product over the years, you've probably avoided thousands of them because of Dave's work behind the scenes over the years.  And even then, you've probably had those issues resolved because Dave's had a hand in training CS reps over the years and resolving bizarre issues, like when certain SLI bridges are installed upside-down.
 
Best of luck, Dave.  You will be missed, but not forgotten.

Love the title of the thread, great job in supporting we users. I'm sure you are a legend among your peers and those you have supported over the years. Thanks!
 

I still can't believe what I am reading!?  You are moving on?!  I walk away from the forums ONE day to finally mess with some D2 steel, and I come back this morning and see EVGA is loosing another great one.  I am so sad, yet so happy for you.  It takes a lot to finally move on.  I am sure there are so many things that go on behind the closed doors of EVGA that we as the common folks that have no idea, and i am sure it was stressful.  Yet you still rise to the occasion each and every time.  I truly wish you the best in what may come in the future.
 
Don't worry, my machines will keep building machines (how do you think the forge got built?  All my machines are self replicating!), and X ray will still spam the LOL thread.  You may even find it easier to hit that 5000 post milestone at your new job.  Milestones, and $5.00 will get you a happymeal.  Thats a bad joke meaning that milestones here mean nothing - its the content of the posts, not the post count of the character)... and wow do we have some characters here.  Myself included :)  But in all seriousness I consider this forum a second family for me.  My online home away from home.  My CNC still has, & will always has its own DAVE folder, for solid 1" thick delrin tops.  Seriously, who on earth but dave would want a 1" thick delrin topped waterblock!?
 
Dave, you will be missed.  Just dont be a stranger!  my email/txt/smoke signals/skynet apparatus  will always be here for you!  

Good luck on your next adventure Dave!