It can be for as short a period as a weeklong vacation or as long as four years in college. Whatever the time span may be, the home you come backto always feels different. Matthew J. Ferrucci, 26, recently returned to Connecticut after spending four years in Boston. The North Branford native has taken his place as the new marketing director at Amenta/Emma Architects in Hartford.
“I’ve been here for a little over a month,” Ferrucci said. “It’s a great creative and energetic atmosphere and the owners have helped the company put itself in a position to grow.”
Ferrucci now resides in North Branford and has experienced the eye-opening awareness of coming home.
“It was a bit of a culture shock,” said Ferrucci. “Boston is so much bigger than Hartford, the work is different and just walking around the city is different. I’ve been here for a month and I’m starting to remember why Hartford is great.”
He graduated in 2003 with degrees in journalism and communications from UConn and continued at ESPN where he had worked throughout college. Ferrucci got into marketing while working at Prometheus Research in New Haven.
“They needed someone who could write but then needed the marketing,” Ferrucci said. “It was something I stumbled upon, but it was a good field for everything that I had studied.” Work at Carol R. Johnson Associates, a landscape architectural firm, proved to be a worthwhile experience for Ferrucci.
“It was a fun company to work for,” he said. “We had projects all over the country and even the Middle East. Work just came to me because of the company’s reputation.”
The move back to Connecticut cam out of the desire to raise a family here. Ferrucci considered Boston expensive and crowded for that kind of life.
“I like the fact that in Connecticut you can work in the city but 20 minutes away you can be in a very small town.”on what I find.”
Emily Boisvert is a Hartford Business Journal staff writer.
