{"id":1098,"date":"2015-06-11T14:47:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T18:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2015-06-11T14:47:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T18:47:11","slug":"the-cto-in-the-field-with-michael-letschin-ep-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/2015\/06\/the-cto-in-the-field-with-michael-letschin-ep-89\/","title":{"rendered":"The CTO in the field with Michael Letschin &#8211; Ep 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Field CTO is a title that we see more often these days, but what does a CTO actually do? Michael Letschin, Field CTO at Nexenta Systems, tells us what the role entails.<\/p>\n<p>Mike was the Director of Product Management at Nexenta, so he had the product knowledge already. But he had also been a consultant and sales engineer in the past, so he has the field chops as well. Becoming Field CTO has let Mike blend the two sides &#8211; bringing product knowledge and a senior technical perspective to his field teams and to customers, and bringing the voice of the customer back into the product organization.<\/p>\n<p>Other topics we cover include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mike&#8217;s gig\u00a0as a cheerleader for the Baltimore Ravens<\/li>\n<li>The Goldilocks Time to arrive an an airport<\/li>\n<li>Scheduling over somebody else&#8217;s calendar<\/li>\n<li>Taking care of yourself\u00a0on the road<\/li>\n<li>What does &#8220;being technical&#8221; mean?<\/li>\n<li>Bringing passion to what you do<\/li>\n<li>Going back to get an MBA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Always be good\u00a0at your job + one other thing<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>When you need to get out to eat on the road, use Food Network recommendations (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/restaurants\/nc\/charlotte\/jakes-good-eats-restaurant.html\">Jake&#8217;s Good Eats<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mletschin\">@mletschin<\/a><br \/>\nBlog: <a href=\"http:\/\/thesolutionsarchitect.net\">The Solutions Architect<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4185\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1098-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Geek-Whisperers-Mike-Letschin-Ep-89.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Geek-Whisperers-Mike-Letschin-Ep-89.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Geek-Whisperers-Mike-Letschin-Ep-89.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Geek-Whisperers-Mike-Letschin-Ep-89.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1098-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Geek-Whisperers-Mike-Letschin-Ep-89.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Geek-Whisperers-Mike-Letschin-Ep-89.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Field CTO is a title that we see more often these days, but what does a CTO actually do? Michael Letschin, Field CTO at Nexenta Systems, tells us what the role entails. Mike was the Director of Product Management at Nexenta, so he had the product knowledge already. But&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/2015\/06\/the-cto-in-the-field-with-michael-letschin-ep-89\/\">Read All Show Notes<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The CTO in the field with Michael Letschin &#8211; Ep 89<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4186\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1098-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Geek-Whisperers-Mike-Letschin-Ep-89.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Geek-Whisperers-Mike-Letschin-Ep-89.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Geek-Whisperers-Mike-Letschin-Ep-89.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Geek-Whisperers-Mike-Letschin-Ep-89.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1098-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Geek-Whisperers-Mike-Letschin-Ep-89.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Geek-Whisperers-Mike-Letschin-Ep-89.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}