The Geek Whisperers work every day with enterprise IT professionals. In Season 2 of the show, the grew centers on talking about careers: particularly about the career success of high tech leaders who have navigated the nonlinear career path. Listen, enjoy and please be sure to share. Join John Troyer, Amy Lewis, and Matthew Brender as they share their experiences, stories, and what's worked for them as they do their daily jobs as Geek Whisperers.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 17 hours 11 minutes
From Photographer to Developer w/Ashley McNamara – Ep 90
This week we’re joined by another Developer Advocate in the wild. Ashley McNamara, community unicorn herder at ObjectRocket, leads us downs the path toward her title. Her and Matt caught up at Velocity Conf and exchanged the secret handshake that they ...
The CTO in the field with Michael Letschin – Ep 89
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,
How To Recognize Your Career Options – Ep 88 w/Aneel Lakhani
This week’s Geek Whisperers is 50% in person. Matt is in the same room as Aneel Lakhani (blog at Aneelism / Twitter @aneel) thanks to GlueCon and we dig into career paths in an entirely new light. Aneel is in Marketing (at SignalFx) yet has more tha...
The social media is implied: what’s up with the Geek Whisperers – Ep 87
This week it’s all about us as the Geek Whisperers do a status check on their own careers. One thing that stuck out is that we are all doing more face-to-face events these days. Social media, which is where we all got our start, is still there,
DevOps and a Career Inflection Point with the Goat Whisperer: Episode 86
Goats, Unicorns and Whisperers walk into a podcast. The results were phenomenal. Michael Ducy, better known as The Goat Whisperer, joins us to discuss career growth with a DevOps-y twist. He started his career as a sysadmin,
Be Great Right Now with Dom Delfino – Ep 85
Sales engineers are a self-admitted strange breed. They’re technical, yet they make their living working with people. What makes them tick? Is this a job for you? This week we talk with Dom Delfino, VP of Worldwide Systems Engineering for Networking an...
Propellerhead Props and avoiding the Snark Side with Rob Peglar – Ep 84
Your Geek Whisperers are joined by the proud propellerhead, Robert Peglar. He has the pleasure of being the VP of Advanced Storage at Micron and previously CTO of Americas for Isilon. He’s in his 26th year of work, in hexadecimal,
Succeeding by knowing your customers with Rachel Perkins – Ep 83
This week we talk about listening to your customers and using that to figure out what your job should be. Three years into her job as Director of Technical Publications, Rachel Perkins,gave a full year’s notice that she was going to quit. Now,
A Technologist with Capital: From CTO to VC with Steve Herrod – Ep 82
Your Geek Whisperers have the pleasure of welcoming Steve Herrod to the show, former CTO of VMware, who now drinks tons of coffee as a VC for General Catalyst. We have the opportunity to demystify what a venture capitalist does in a day and we capture ...
Making a Powerful Impact with Jeffrey Snover – Ep 81
What do you do when you know something is important for your company, but your management doesn’t agree? For our guest Jeffrey Snover, building PowerShell was so important he took a demotion at Microsoft to do it.