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My job as a manager

4 Comments Posted by on November 13, 2011

When you think about it, management is really a necessary evil.  Oh, sure, I happen to weirdly like it and have been accused of having a talent for it, but it’s really unfortunate that we need as much management as we do. Just think about it.  When your team or company is small enough, you [...]

about, general leadership, leading geeks

Moving to Seattle!

14 Comments Posted by on July 14, 2011

What?  You’re moving to Seattle?  When?  What happened? Yes; my husband and I are moving to Seattle.  We’re flying out late on the 26th of July.  Amazon made him an offer we couldn’t refuse. What’s happening to you?  Your job? I’ll be looking for a job in Seattle.  And friends. Where will you be living? [...]

about, leading geeks

My completely nitpicky pet peeves (humor)

5 Comments Posted by on June 6, 2011

Dear fellow geeks, geek leaders, and other random people who read this blog: This is not a useful post.  This post, in fact, will show you how the inside of my brain works.  It can be a scary, scary place sometimes.  Also?  This isn’t a rant.  This is just nitpicky.  Also probably brought on by [...]

about, leading geeks, The Grammar Geek

Customer Service vs. Accuracy

3 Comments Posted by on November 30, 2010

I recently had two customer service experiences with a company that sent me a defective DVD and then sent me the wrong disk as replacement.  The discussions were nearly identical (both took place via online chat), but they left me feeling very different.  During the first discussion, I was confident that I had done everything [...]

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Post-Traumatic IT Stress Disorder

2 Comments Posted by on July 13, 2010

My last job was a circus of IT disasters.  I arrived at the company just in time to have system after system crash and various others need to be replaced (having the windows open RIGHT BEHIND the blade servers was just FUN during blizzards, I tell you…).  It seemed that nothing had been configured according [...]

about, care and feeding, leading geeks

The Learning Curve

1 Comment Posted by on June 14, 2010

As a geek I’m often asked, “How do you know this stuff?” Well, there’s no magic bullet, we (geeks) do not have inherent knowledge of technology. We didn’t simply wake up one morning and build a network, or repair a server. A good system engineer will need to be an excellent troubleshooter, this skill, like [...]

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On Self-Assessment & Celebration

2 Comments Posted by on June 7, 2010

Recently, I had to complete a self-assessment.  I hate self-assessments.  I always discover that I have this weird brain dichotomy, where I somehow think that I’m pretty awesome and yet completely suck at the same time.  So I have to wonder if my self-assessment reads as somewhat schizophrenic to the folks that read it. In [...]

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Introduction: John Guidroz

Leave a Comment Posted by on June 4, 2010

John Guidroz is a naturally born salesman that has used the application of IT to support a very successful career in both the Telecom and Healthcare Industries. When he was a kid his dad got a Apple computer in 1986, the Apple IIGS, and he was hooked. Over the next 20 years, he had a [...]

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Introduction: Kate Fontanella

1 Comment Posted by on June 1, 2010

Kate Fontanella has a passion for training and facilitating adults to gain the skills they need to grow professionally. She is currently looking for a position as training professional.  She has most recently worked developing a training program for EMC for an Oracle Reporting tool called OBIEE.  For this project she developed an online training [...]

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Introduction: Mark Wingrove

1 Comment Posted by on May 27, 2010

Editor’s note: Mark is our “true geek”, who will largely be blogging about actual geeky stuff. He has had the (mis?)fortune of working for Jenn at a previous job. Accomplished IT professional with a 10-year track record of successful technology management, and administration within various industries. I found my way into the IT world by [...]

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