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Starting A New Chapter

After nearly 10 years of pushing the bleeding edge of infrastructure at ExponentHR, I am turning a new page in the career playbook. On January 18th, I begin my new journey through the vendor landscape...

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Pure Rubrik Goodness

As Pure//Accelerate approaches, one of my favorite aspects of winning solutions comes to mind. It’s a virtue that transforms products into MVPs, rather than the drama generators so common on the court...

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Overcoming Challenges with SuperMicro BIOS Updates

After far, far too long, I finally stood up my home lab to run vSphere 6 and an upcoming assortment of servers and tools. SolarWinds, Rubrik, and many others will shortly be churning away. First things...

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From The Other Side

It’s been far too long since I’ve posted content of significant substance, but it isn’t for lack of experiences. At a week out from 6 months on the vendor side and start-up life, in particular, I’ve...

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Fun Serving Customers

Two weeks ago I transitioned from a “Field Engineer” role at Rubrik to that of a “Sales Engineer” (sometimes called “Systems Engineer”). I had been double-dipping in the positions for a while, but...

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How to Migrate WordPress from AWS EC2 to cPanel-based Shared Hosting

Sometime in 2016, I moved my blog (this one) to an AWS EC2 instance (t2.micro) running Amazon Linux. It seemed like a good idea at the time, since my prior hosting (Gandi.net) was shutting down their...

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My Fave-5 Rubrik Features of 2017

It’s snowing here on New Year’s Eve 2017 as I sit here in Northern Virginia, reflecting on the multitude of things that crammed themselves into the past 364 days. Turning the lens to Rubrik, I thought...

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Neat Tools for Learning Languages in 2018

Technically, I cheated. I used the holiday “break” to get a jump start on fresh learning in 2018, but it’s a streak I’ve kept up for about two weeks now, so I’ll give the new year credit for...

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Happy Birthday, Rubrik!

Four years ago today, an amazing company was born at the hands of four incredible co-founders who still lead our rocketship today. I am pleased and honored to have worked with this incredible team for...

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The Player-to-Coach Transition Is Hard

Are you a first-line manager (or higher)? Or maybe an aspiring individual contributor with eyes on a management role? If so, please take five minutes and see if this could apply to your team or even...

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