career
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Scribbles, Styluses, and Sanity: The Note-Taking Revolution No One Told Me About
I’ve always loved a good notebook — the feel of pen on paper, the satisfying rhythm of a well-organized Bullet Journal. But somewhere between hauling around a rainbow of pens and trying to keep up with multiple notebooks for different parts of life, I started wondering if there was a better way. Enter the unexpected… Continue reading
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How I Fell into my Dream Job (AGAIN): A journey from RIF to Renewal
Job Search Update So, for most of my life, when it came to work, I generally knew about jobs because of someone I knew. I mean, most people find jobs that way. On rare occasions, when friends and acquaintances don’t know of any new jobs and I had to “cold call” to find work, I… Continue reading
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Fear, Freedom, and Finding Yourself in the Workplace
My professional journey with VMware began in 2005. In 2007 I embarked on a journey to the US as a technical trainer with a specialized visa that recognized my expertise in virtual desktop management. As the global expert on what would eventually become Omnissa Horizon, I initially arrived in the United States through an L1-B… Continue reading
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Video Post: The Self-Interview Project: Raw, Unfiltered & Real
So I thought it’d be neat to do a self-interview as a way to promote myself in addition to the static resume. And then I thought, maybe do it as a mini-podcast-like thing. So if you’re interested, reach out to me here or on LinkedIn. Continue reading
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Career Curveballs: How I Accidentally became a Free Agent
Breaking News: Local Tech Storyteller Unexpectedly Promoted to “Professional Job Hunter” by Broadcom! After 19 years of marriage to VMware, we’ve decided to consciously uncouple. Translation: I got laid off, and now I’m back on the job market—a landscape so different from 1992 that my resume might as well be written in hieroglyphics. And as… Continue reading