Category Archives: Career

Wrapping up a Layoff Job Hunt

Now that I’ve come to the end of my post-layoff job hunt, I wanted to provide some statistics about my job hunt. First, a quick summary of the search. I didn’t have much of May left when I got “the call” and I spent most of the remainder of the month talking to people and …

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Concluding My Job Search

It’s been a long road since getting laid off in May 2023, but I’m excited to finally talk about the end of this journey. As of December 18, 2023, I am starting the next phase of my career at Rubrik as a Technical Marketing Architect. This was honestly not the position I imagined taking at …

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Helping Those Who Have Been Laid Off

I posted the other day a few suggestions for people who have found themselves in a layoff situation. But I’ve also been collecting thoughts about what is truly helpful to those people. I have always felt really bad for people who get laid off, but often didn’t know what to do to help those people. …

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Lessons Learned from a Layoff

There’s been a lot written about layoffs lately, which is no surprise given all the VMware employees have been enduring. Here are a few of the experiences I’ve had with being laid off for just over 5 months (as of this writing). I hope this helps someone with their layoff situation. Looking for work is …

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An Update on the Job Search

Well, it’s been 3 months of unemployment. It’s a weird job market out there. Some companies don’t seem to know what they want, while others post jobs with no hurry to fill them. And with more layoffs happening all the time, the competition is only increasing for the real ones. I think I had one …

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A Forced Changed

tl;dr: I was laid off two weeks ago and am now on the hunt for the next page in my career. It sucks, but I am well and secure. I’m excited to move forward, there are several exciting opportunities I’m working towards, I have a new appreciation for what I want to do, and I …

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My New Toys at iland

I’m now a month in at iland (and yes, it’s spelled all lowercase, not “Apple case”). I’ve spent most of this time meeting the new team, learning the ropes of the new company, learning the underlying technologies, and getting to know the products iland has developed. It’s your typical firehose situation. Often when starting a …

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Looking forward to a new iland

Nope, the title is not a typo. Trust me, it’s punny. A job change is always a big deal. The frequency we change jobs in the IT field confounds people who are in other career fields, but I don’t think that makes it any easier. Even working remotely, strong bonds of friendship and respect are …

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Looking back at SimpliVity

Here we go once again with another job change post.  Seems to be a rash of these lately. Four years ago, I decided to embark on a new career adventure. At that time I had been working at a VAR as a presales architect.  I did a lot of things in that job that I …

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Making the Leap to SimpliVity

My latest story starts with a simple DM to Matt Vogt about a month and a half ago, who at that time had recently moved over to SimpliVity: This message came from two movements in my life: Lamenting the good old days of Vital Support Systems when the company had less than 100 people and …

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