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Hey everyone,

We took about 2 weeks to sort of work behind the scenes on a number of things. Those include me personally going through hundreds of hiring applications (took quite a while), working on SOP writing for our testing processes, smoothing-out our project tracking software, and other internal stuff. Basically, a couple times a year, I like to have a period where I can (as the saying goes) "work on the business" instead of "working in the business."

I still need a few days to nail-down some test processes in a way that others can pick-up the testing so that I can move on to engineering some new testing methods for other hardware, but we made a lot of progress recently and are back to somewhat normal production.

Growing a team is an interesting challenge. We can't sustain output without a team, but without the right project tracking tools and the right documentation in place for testing, I also can't keep up with the team we have. I think we've fixed most of that in the past 2 weeks, and more will be improved this weekend. I'm excited about the work we've been doing lately.

Anyway, this video is Mike and Andrew cleaning up the sound chamber. It was absolutely smothered in dust!

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Cleaning the Sound Chamber & Behind-the-Scenes

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Brooks Andersen

Oh man... If you're anything like me, going through and optimizing processes, documentation, and tracking is pretty fun and rewarding. I love that stuff! Although, having a brain which operates in that sort of, "optimize and increase efficiency" domain, working at former day jobs stressed me out and made me constantly frustrated. My last day job was working for a newish gig economy company which had so much potential, so much room for growth, but also recently acquired by a huge insurance claims handling corporation. An ancient company that was still using Lotus Notes! Nothing was done quickly or efficiently. I proposed a small change one of our devs could make to our internal tool which would take an afternoon to implement, which would have saved us like $34,000 a year in labor alone. After months of showing leadership my documentation and proposal, with no one able to make the decision to just make it happen I gave up attempting to even care about the company, which was sad. I really did like it there and wanted them to be successful. (Maybe I should have sent in a resume after all, haha!) Sorry... wow, that was a ramble.... I'm sleep deprived and loopy. Anyways- looking forward to all the awesome new stuff coming out from you guys! :)

Anonymous

Really looking forward to seeing how the audio testing suite takes shape!

SP Rupert

We love getting new or new-to-us testing equipment at work. What was it design for? What can it do? What can we use it for in our particular testing? What sort of procedures should we write up? What spare parts do we need to purchase? Lots of R&amp;D fun. I look forward to watching the results!

Anonymous

When you cleaned the top of that booth, it just reminded me of all the old walk in type ones that Ive had to crawl on to disassemble in the past. Human skin is gross.

Leviathanprym

neat, looks like the new space is coming together well

sub ari

Good to know they're still other companies rocking lotus notes! It has an IBM logo on it, and it's written in Java, much better than any "cloud" things, right? /Sarcasm Jokes aside, it's fascinating how much large companies don't care about those things. Oh, did I tell you that some companies are still disabling windows update? BTW, that includes security updates and browser updates. Looks like I'm rambling too...

Sparky Trent

Not really sure about the pallets over there in the US, but the ones here in Australia are usually made from treated pine, so you're talking about the usual pesticides and anti-fungal etc. so generally they don't like to throw them right into the ground at the local dump like they would with normal un-treated yard 'green' waste. If they're not treated then it's usually from the nails/ screws that are in them so they can't go into the local dumps mulchers without causing them some type of damage.