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...
View ArticlePure 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...
View ArticleOvercoming 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...
View ArticleFrom 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...
View ArticleFun 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleMy 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...
View ArticleNeat 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...
View ArticleHappy 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...
View ArticleThe 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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