Work
Posts about my work as a product manager.
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Monarch Global Search
view post →: Monarch Global SearchLaunching today in the web app. You can now use cmd-K or the new search icon in the top left corner to search across all of Monarch. It searches your data or can be used like a command line to jump to a specific page in the app! 🚀🚀🚀 Originally posted to Twitter
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Monarch Inspiration
view post →: Monarch InspirationThe best way to use a personal finance app (PFM) is to have it help you understand what you should do next. Not just track what you’ve already done. That’s what we’re focused on with building Monarch. Originally posted to Twitter
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Product Manager for Veritas Backup Reporter
view post →: Product Manager for Veritas Backup ReporterI got a new job! The interview process went through most of September and I’m really excited to start in the new role the first week of November. I’m going to be a “Product Manager” with a new emerging product at Symantec that was released at the beginning of this year called “Veritas Backup Reporter”.…
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Switching Web Hosts
view post →: Switching Web HostsDave finally put the nail in the coffin when he told me that iJFP.com wasn’t working this morning. I’m making the switch from Powweb to GoDaddy over the next couple of days so iJFP may be up and down. I also host nowlikephotographs.com on Powweb and haven’t heard any complaints with that so I’m guessing…
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NetBackup Box
view post →: NetBackup BoxPretty cool. They gave everyone who worked on the new NetBackup 6.5 release an official box with the DVD’s. I’m pretty sure most people just download the ISO from our servers but having a physical copy of it is really neat.
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HP Work Trip
view post →: HP Work TripI spent the last week in Houston visiting HP for work. Two other engineers and my manager came down early Tuesday morning on a flight that carried U.S. Senator Norm Coleman no less. I was even surprised to see Norm flies coach, not first class! My manager, Lynn, could only stay for a day but…
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Japanese Electronics
view post →: Japanese ElectronicsYesterday at work we had two engineers from NEC fly over from Japan to install a new storage product for testing with NetBackup. I’ve worked with NEC in the past through email but this was my first direct interaction with them in person. They were super nice and got everything up and running in no…
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Beta Testing Time
view post →: Beta Testing TimeThis past Friday marked a big milestone at work in our upcoming NetBackup 6.5 release as we posted a Beta version for customers to start using. A few weeks ago I volunteered to help our program management team with the Beta program which has been a really good experience. I’ve enjoyed working directly with some…
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Data Center Power Outage Snow Day
view post →: Data Center Power Outage Snow DayThis morning I was happily churning along at work when one of our numerous power outages happened. We probably lose power twice a year, once it even caused a small fire. For a building with 10 labs and a couple hundred servers it’s a big deal when the power goes out. It stayed out for…
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NetBackup OpenStorage API
view post →: NetBackup OpenStorage APIYesterday we announced a new API for NetBackup which is the product I work on. It’s being called “OpenStorage” and was known internally as the STS plugin for a while. For friends and family reading this that don’t know anything about NetBackup, it’s basically a backup app for data centers that takes data from lots…
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Foosball at Work
view post →: Foosball at WorkWe’re trying to be like all those other cool dot com startups at work and now have a Foosball table. The group I work in – Data Center Management is having a tournament next year where the winners from each office will be flown out to California to compete. When I read the email I…
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Symantec Friends & Family Coupons
view post →: Symantec Friends & Family CouponsI received 3 coupons at work today for 50% off any Symantec product until the end of the year. It’s part of our promotion to get friends & family running our latest versions of software. If you are interested in getting one of these coupon codes let me know. Dave already got the hookup on…
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Another Day in LA with Symantec
view post →: Another Day in LA with SymantecAnother full day at Cutting Edge today. I met and learned a lot about the other side of the company, or what they sometimes call legacy Symantec. Mainly security, consumer products, and small business solutions. I never thought about how large of a company we’ve become but it’s cool to meet some of the other…
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Symantec Engineering Conference in LA
view post →: Symantec Engineering Conference in LASo this week I’m out in Los Angeles for Symantec’s “Cutting Edge” engineering conference. I flew in yesterday with our team lead, Dean. We took a taxi over to the Hyatt where we’re staying. The rooms are pretty nice and we seem to be in a nice part of Beverly Hills (queue Weezer). I’m hoping…
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64-bit NetBackup
view post →: 64-bit NetBackupWork has been crazy-busy since we are working on a project to port NetBackup from 32-bit to 64-bit so it can run better on x86-64 architecture with the new 64-bit version of Windows Server. Testing should be done next week so I will hopefully have more time to write blog posts over lunch.
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New Monitor at Work
view post →: New Monitor at WorkThe high point of my week was getting a new monitor at work. The trusty 19″ CRT on my desk started flickering so our system admin’s brought me a 20″ Dell LCD as a replacement. The text is so much better but the color really sucks on it. I think it’s just my particular monitor…
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Veritas embraces 64-bit Windows/Linux on Opteron
view post →: Veritas embraces 64-bit Windows/Linux on OpteronI’m in the news! I did all the testing on x64 architectures over the last 6 months for NetBackup. We’ve had support for this for over a month (The Register is slow for once) but it’s cool to read about us in the news. The thing they fail to mention is our binaries are still…
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Hello, Real World
view post →: Hello, Real WorldOn Monday I took a full-time position with Veritas. I start next Monday (the 18th). I’m really excited to finally have a job and it’s even before I graduate. They pushed my hire through so that I don’t get lost in the paperwork shuffle of the Veritas-Symantec merger which will be finishing in May when…