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Comment on Introducing ProSphere by Managing Block Storage At Scale: Introducing EMC ProSphere | Download VDI Solutions

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:00:29 +0000

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Comment on Introducing ProSphere by Chuck Staples

Chuck Staples — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:59:38 +0000

Speaking as a member of both the ControlCenter and ProSphere teams… and remembering the pains and effort required in delivering both products. After a few years on ControlCenter, I found there were times when we delivered a specific feature that make me think to myself, “This will make customers happy.” Alas, those moments were not always as plentiful as we hoped they’d be.

With ProSphere, it honestly can be said that we have had those moments already, and more often. It’s been both fulfilling and enlightening. Granted, we have far to go, and more to see… but I think our customers will be pleased.

Comment on Introducing ProSphere by Storagezilla

Storagezilla — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:03:50 +0000

Good job team.

Comment on Cool job opportunity at EMC by Len Devanna

Len Devanna — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:58:05 +0000

You make it sound menacing!

Thanks for spreading the word, Dave!!!

Comment on Management as a practice by Michelle Lavoie

Michelle Lavoie — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:26:37 +0000

Dave, you’re so right. Although I have generally found management to be simply an exercise in courtesy and common sense, it is a discipline like many other. We all can use lifelong learning to develop new knowledge and skills. For Managers, those who have been managers and those who wish to be…take the time to learn from those with experience (and talk to Dave!)

Comment on Becoming a manager – fear of politics by Becoming a manager – fear of politics | Forge network

Becoming a manager – fear of politics | Forge network — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:27:24 +0000

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Comment on Casual Friday: Presenting Perils by Dave

Dave — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:12:20 +0000

And of course I forgot the rogue IM scenario. “Hey man ‘sup?” “Not much, just presenting in front of my whole team, say hi to my boss.”

Comment on Casual Friday: Presenting Perils by Dave

Dave — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:11:35 +0000

From @CharlesHood on twitter, there’s the peril of forgetting you have your desktop shared, and after the meeting ends you go about your business. Ten minutes later, you see you’re still sharing, and begin the furious backtrack….

Comment on Reviewing resumes by Natalie Corridan-Gregg

Natalie Corridan-Gregg — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:32:19 +0000

Dave,

I can empathize! I have filled 3 positions this year and have more in my future. I agonized over some of the same topics. For example, I wanted to see a TwitterID and LinkedIn but did not feel right about eliminating a candidate because of a lack of those things.
My co-worker has an entry level position open and the sorting through the resumes is really tough. It is hard to determine potential without relevant experience. However, if they had experience they would not be right for the entry level position. Quite a puzzle.

As always, enjoyed your perspective!

Comment on Reviewing resumes by Dave

Dave — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:19:11 +0000

Thanks for the comment Matthew — and you make some great points. I was trying to decide whether to keep the post light-hearted or serious, and kind of walked the line a bit between serious advice and a couple chuckles.

It’s incredible difficult to turn your entire life into a single page of paper. You’re asking people who have no business experience to take on the difficult task of writing a concise yet attractive piece of business writing. Asking people with no industry experience to second-guess what someone in the industry wants to see.

For people who have been reading resumes for a decade, it’s easy to overlook those facts. But I think we’ve all interviewed superstars with lackluster resumes, and vice-versa.

The question of your business and personal identities, and how to merge them and/or keep them separate, is not trivial. I think it’s getting interesting, and is only going to get more interesting, as we keep moving forward. It’s definitely a topic I’ll revisit on the blog. I’ve written a few times about it, but not recently, and my own behaviors have definitely shifted in the past year or so….

As for the opportunity — I’m actually not looking in the Navisphere space — I haven’t been on that team in going on a decade now . If you want to see the formal job description just head into the EMC job database and search for position 55805BR. I apologize for the awful formatting (unforgivable when I complain about resume proofreading, right?); it looked great when I wrote it up but somewhere in the translation it got a bit mangled….