Gerette has hit the nail on the head

Thank you both John and Chris for your thoughtfulness.
Hopefully, as the hours and days go by, you will all continue to feel better about this “Brave New World” and come to embrace it ever further.

URID will, of course, continue to live among the ongoing collaboration of all of us that Erika will be coordinating—and URID.org will be an essential part of that.
And, Chris is exactly right that each of you will continue to be usability professionals, and you will not only be able to, you are expected to, make a greater impact by working from a position that gives you greater control over the product development lifecycle.

It has been—and I expect it to continue to be—a source of great personal joy and pride to work with all of you, individually and collectively. I’m very proud of each of your professional development, professional accomplishment, and contribution to Fannie Mae’s success, and I anticipate continuing to have reason to feel that way far into the future.

Thanks,

Bill