Sales engineers are a self-admitted strange breed. They’re technical, yet they make their living working with people. What makes them tick? Is this a job for you? This week we talk with Dom Delfino, VP of Worldwide Systems Engineering for Networking and Security at VMware. The SE is the conscience…
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Your Geek Whisperers are joined by the proud propellerhead, Robert Peglar. He has the pleasure of being the VP of Advanced Storage at Micron and previously CTO of Americas for Isilon. He’s in his 26th year of work, in hexadecimal, and has a great deal of wisdom to share: From hardcore engineering chops…
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This week we talk about listening to your customers and using that to figure out what your job should be. Three years into her job as Director of Technical Publications, Rachel Perkins,gave a full year’s notice that she was going to quit. Now, almost eight years in at the same company,…
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Your Geek Whisperers have the pleasure of welcoming Steve Herrod to the show, former CTO of VMware, who now drinks tons of coffee as a VC for General Catalyst. We have the opportunity to demystify what a venture capitalist does in a day and we capture a number career tips in the…
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What do you do when you know something is important for your company, but your management doesn’t agree? For our guest Jeffrey Snover, building PowerShell was so important he took a demotion at Microsoft to do it. Now PowerShell is arguably one of the most powerful and effective tools to empower…
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The Geek Whisperers have the pleasure to talk a little tech with Andy Warfield, co-founder and CTO of Coho Data. He has a story of academics, startups, open source, enterprise IT and work/life balance. What path is right for you? How is your career effected by academic pursuits? We have more open conversation than…
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How do you end up as a VP and Security CTO at Juniper? Chris Hoff doesn’t know, but there he is. This week we talk with @Beaker about hackers, faking an aneurysm, building compelling presentations, and finding what you’re passionate about. “Hey, hey, hey, hey-now. Don’t be mean; we don’t have…
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In this round of Geek Whispering, we invite Leo Leung, VP of Marketing (yes, Marketing) at Scality to discuss his nerd cred. He helps us digest the job titles of 2015 and we rip through all kinds of storytelling at scale. We bring up: How career path are weird Past guest…
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