As 2020 was finishing, I looked back at my initial New Year resolutions: Obviously, my first two ‘eco-conscious’ resolutions became quickly irrelevant as COVID disrupted our lives, grounded flights and lockdowns prevented us to drive anywhere. Anyway, I did switch to an electric vehicle (I’d highly recommend it if you can handle the restrictions that […]
Read More Reflections on 2020 and goals for 2021I recently recorded two career sessions for VMware User Groups – you can find below the recording of the one I co-recorded with Katherine Lightner. As I mentioned on Twitter, Katherine and I have been promoted or have had successful internal job transfers 8 times in the past 3 years. That’s not including all the […]
Read More How To Take Ownership of Your Career in 10 Easy Steps – VMUG sessionI’ve recently been fortunate to participate in a Virtual Reality meeting pilot kickstarted by our IT department at VMware. This post will walk through my experience as an early adopter. When lockdown started here in the UK, I didn’t expect that I would go 6 months (and counting…) without a face-to-face meeting with a customer […]
Read More Virtual Reality Meeting – the future of remote meetings?Published on the VMware Office of the CTO Blog on 25th June 2020: https://octo.vmware.com/nonprofit-connect/ The post was co-written with the amazing Michelle and walks through some of the work we’ve done at VMware with a number of non-profit organizations. If you work with such organization and want to hear more, please contact us on the […]
Read More OCTO Initiative: Nonprofit Connect – Amplifying Impact with VMware’s Nonprofit CustomersThe day I started my career back in February 2005, my first and new boss introduced me to a colleague (who himself had only been there for 6 months) and said: “He’s going to be your mentor and show you the ropes.” I followed my mentor around for a couple of months, pestered him with […]
Read More Mentoring, Coaching and Sponsoring – why you need to get some and give someAs I entered the lift, the little girl stepped behind her mum. “Why are you scared, honey?” asked the mother. The terrified little girl pointed her finger at me and said: “Because the man is black.” “What can I do?” That’s probably the question I’ve heard the most over the past few weeks as we […]
Read More Being a Black ManI’ve recently had the opportunity to shadow the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a large UK company and he had the kindness to let me sit into a variety of meetings and interview him and some of his reporting staff. I took off my “VMware hat” for a few days and was a fly on […]
Read More What does a CIO actually do? Observations from a week shadowing a CIOIf you want to help fight against coronavirus but don’t know how to contribute…well, read on. It turns out we all can do something (beyond staying at home and washing our hands!): we can give away our computer processing power to research to understand coronavirus better and design therapeutics to address it. Now, I’m not […]
Read More Folding at Home and how to make a (tiny) contribution to coronavirus therapeutics researchI recently had the opportunity to work on a project with British Heart Foundation to reduce heart and lungs diseases through technology. The team I worked with focused on air quality. It has no obvious link with my day job at VMware but it has been a great experience so far and it has finally […]
Read More How to monitor Air Quality with a Raspberry PiOn a very different topic… and with a huge amount of focus on remote work with the coronavirus outbreak, we thought it would be relevant to share our manifesto and guidelines on making remote meetings inclusive and effective. The article was co-written with Katherine Lightner and published on her blog: How to be Inclusive When […]
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