🎙️ Lisa at the Edge is back with another inspiring conversation!
In this episode, I sit down with Aimie to hear about her unique path into tech. From considering art and design to becoming the first woman in her apprenticeship role, her story is all about embracing change and making the most of unexpected opportunities.
Aimie Coole is a Field CTO in the EMEA Technology Office at Dell Technologies, specializing in cybersecurity strategies that protect applications and data across on-prem, cloud, and edge environments. With over a decade of hands-on experience, she helps organizations navigate cyber threats, ensure compliance, and foster innovation. Aimie is a trusted advisor, providing practical guidance on mitigating vulnerabilities and strengthening security postures.
🔥 We chat about:
✅ Finding your way into tech, even without a traditional background
✅ Navigating challenges and building confidence in the industry
✅ The value of mentorship, learning, and personal growth
Aimie has some great insights for anyone exploring a career in tech—don’t miss it!
📌 Connect with Aimie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aimie-coole-7a380840/💬
Have you taken an unexpected career path? Let’s chat in the comments!
#WomenInTech #CareerGrowth #TechIndustry
🎙️ Welcome to Lisa at the Edge! In this episode, I sit down with Sofia to dive into her unique journey into the tech industry—from studying Music and Musical Theatre to thriving in pre-sales at Dell Technologies!🔥 We talk about:✅ How soft skills can set you apart in tech✅ Overcoming impostor syndrome & building confidence✅ The power of mentorship and career visibility✅ Why the tech industry has a place for EVERYONESofia’s story is proof that your background doesn’t define your potential—your passion, skills, and drive do! If you’re thinking about a career in tech or looking for inspiration to grow, this episode is for you.💬 Drop a comment and let’s chat! Why do you love the Tech Indusrty?#WomenInTech #PreSales #CareerGrowth #TechIndustry 🚀
🎙️ Lisa at the Edge is back, and I’m beyond excited to kick off this series spotlighting Women in Presales and Tech at Dell Technologies!In this episode, I sit down with Maria Mohr, Global Presales Sustainability Lead at Dell, to dive into her unexpected journey into tech. From what she originally envisioned for her career to how embracing non-traditional backgrounds can open doors, Maria’s story is packed with insights and inspiration.🔥 We talk about:✅ Breaking into tech without a typical technical background✅ How self-awareness fuels career growth✅ The power of mentorship, coaching & development programsMaria shares some amazing resources that helped her along the way—check them out below! ⬇️📌 Connect with Maria on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/maria-mohr-1b5b8623📌 Discover your strengths: VIA Character Survey – https://www.viacharacter.org/📌 Mettacool Development Program: http://peptalkher.com/📌 BetterUp Coaching Platform: https://www.betterup.com/💬 What’s YOUR biggest career breakthrough moment? Let’s chat in the comments!#WomenInTech #PreSales #CareerGrowth #TechIndustry 🚀
Welcome back to another episode of Lisa at the Edge. In this episode I am joined by the inspiring Jonah Andersson. Jonah is an Azure Microsoft MVP and a Software Engineer who lives in Sweden. Jonah is passionate about community and is the founder of Azure User Group Sweden. Jonah's story of how she got in to tech is one of determination and grit.
💬 Key Conversation Points 💬
Did you always want to be in tech?
How experience outside of coding influenced journey in to software development
Following your dreams, finding a job that speaks to you as a person and your passions
Why myself and Jonah are in our own ways 'Open Books'
Another Technical Interview horror story!
The importance of a supportive work environment & our experiences
Questioning the validity of your feelings as a Women in Tech
Community & Mentorship
Inspiration for writing a Book about Learning Azure
The Technical and Non-Technical divide
How do you balance professional, personal and community?
LINKS 🔗
Early book preview: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-microsoft-azure/9781098113315/
CONNECT🙌
Twitter: @cjkodare
Website: https://jonahandersson.tech/
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Welcome back to another episode of Lisa at the Edge. In this episode I am joined by my teammate Jaromir Kaspar. Jaromir walks us through his career in tech journey, spoiler alert, he knew he wanted to be in tech from the age of 6. Jaromir worked for Microsoft where he travelled the world as a Customer Engineer. He also created MSLab on GitHub. MSLab enables you to deploy and test Windows Server and Azure Stack HCI scenarios quickly and repeatably for testing, learning or deploying.
📝Full Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3Kawl1z
LINKS 🔗
https://geos.to/AzSLabs
https://geos.to/mslab
www.engineeringtechnologists.com
CONNECT🙌
Twitter: @jaromirkaspar
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Welcome back to Lisa at the Edge. In this episode I am joined by Dave Kurth, we hear about his career journey to landing his dream role as a Senior PM in Microsoft for Azure Stack Hub focussing on Security.
📝Full Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3JxGCo6
💬 Key Conversation Points 💬
00:22 - Introductions - 'How did you get in to Tech'
13:00 - Setting up a personalised Snowboard company
20:00 - How did you land your first role at Microsoft
21:36 - How did you land your role which involved moving to Redmond
25:37 - Moving to Corp - the need to prove yourself & giving yourself grace
30:00 - Setting Goals
32:45 - What will you miss most about Marketing? What are you looking forward to in Eningeering?
37:29 - Lets talk about our favourite topic - Hybrid Cloud
45:00 - Of course we had to cover Multi-Cloud
52:19 - IT teams looked at as a cost and not an investment
CONNECT🙌
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDaveKurth
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DaveKurth
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thedavekurth
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Welcome back to another Lisa at the Edge Episode.
I am joined by the awesome Anaïs Urlichs. Anaïs begins a new role this week as Developer Advocate at Aqua Security, she is a CNCF Ambassador and a GitHub Star! Anaïs has had an interesting career journey so far. So of course I asked her to share that with us. We hear how technology was not the first profession which Anaïs dreamed about, can you guess what she wanted to be when she was young? Listen to find out!
📝Full Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3IWkWC2
💬 Key Conversation Points 💬
0:22 Introductions
03:45 Early career aspirations
08:36 Applying for roles & dealing with rejection
10:37 Any experience is good experience
12:40 Technical Writing - Lessons Learned
13:40 Importance of feedback for growth
16:29 What happened next - the need to build
18:01 Developer Advocate opportunity in Blockchain
21:59 Value of Community and Developer Advocacy
25:30 What happened next - Community Management
28:00 A recruiter message which stood out
29:22 Using Kubernetes for the first time during an interview process
31:45 Starting YouTube & Content Creation
37:54 Insight from my Yoga Teacher :)
39:09 What happened next - need to be challenged
43:40 Back to Developer Advocacy
48:15 Opportunistic Career Development
50:57 Importance of Employers supporting and valuing their Employees
CONNECT🙌
Twitter https://twitter.com/urlichsanais [twitter.com]
Newsletter https://devops.anaisurl.com/ [devops.anaisurl.com]
YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/AnaisUrlichs/ [youtube.com]
100DaysOfKubernetes 100daysofkubernetes.io/ [100daysofkubernetes.io]
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Welcome back to Lisa at the Edge. After a break I am easing back in slowly to the world of social media and kicking off the podcast again. I'm definitely a little rusty and I think it shows in this episode but hopefully I'll be back to myself after a few more episodes.
In this episode I am joined by some of my team mates to discuss the Azure Stack HCI and Azure Arc announcements from Microsoft Ignite November 2021. I was in Paris during Ignite so missed the live content but I have been catching up via the blogs and video content and my team mates were on hand to bring me up to speed.
📝Full Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3xmrLrL
🙌CONNECT🙌
Jayanth @YkJayanth
Kenny @KennyLowe
Jaromir @jaromirkaspar
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In this episode I am joined by the inspiring Mᥲყ Aᥣhᥲjrι also known as Agent 008. May is a computer engineer at Schlumberger in Saudi Arabia who transformed her career by joining the #PowerAddict Community and falling in love with Power Platform.
We hear how Agent 008 got her name and about the power of the tech community.
May shares how she finally felt like she found herself with the Power Platform because it took her from her day to day grey activities to a world of colour and creativity.
📝Full Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3jVEu0a
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In this episode I am joined by thee AMAZING Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza. Gwyn shot to Twitter and YouTube stardom during 2020 and became an Azure MVP. She has recently secured her dream role as a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. Gwyn has a super inspiring story and I really love her authenticity when it comes to sharing her stories.
In this Gwyn shares how she got in to tech and we discuss the importance of being authentic. We're share our reasons for blogging, vlogging and being part of the community. We also have a pretty open and frank discussion around topics like imposter syndrome and feeling proud of our achievements. We discuss Twitter and the different ways in which you can be supportive and interactive in the community as well as how not to approach community and social activity.
📝Full Show Notes https://bit.ly/3xMphCb
🙌CONNECT🙌
Twitter: @madebygps
GPS YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/madebygps
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Lisa at the Edge is Back!
In this episode I am joined by my colleagues Mike Derrberry and Michael Wells who are both part of my team (Global Engineering Outreach Specialists aka GEOS) and cover the AMERICAS!
In this episode we cover the reasons why you should choose Dell Technologies when it comes to Azure Stack HCI
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The Scottish Azure Stack team is back in action. It was good to have Kenny and Darren on the podcast again, we always have great discussions. In this episode we spend a bit of time catching up when we realise we haven't done an episode for quite some time. We talk about the work/life/lockdown balance and how we are getting on and then we dive in to the Azure Stack family and talk about some Microsoft Ignite updates. Azure Stack HCI is the current star of the show, we're all extremely busy working with customers and partners who want to adopt Azure Stack HCI as their on premises consistent Azure Hybrid solution.
LINKS:
ABOUT
If you have any questions for future episodes, let us know here: https://bit.ly/3o5Lru3
Darren is a Hybrid Technical Specialist at Microsoft and Kenny the Senior Manage for Partner Aligned HCI Engineering Technologists at Dell Technologies.
You can connect with them both at the below Twitter handles and Links:
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Welcome back to Lisa at the Edge. In this episode I'm joined by Dwayne Natwick, also known as Captain Hyperscaler! Keep listening to find out how Dwayne got the name! We hear how Dwayne got in to technology, his career development and many roles he's had to lead him to his current dream role of teaching as part of Opsgility. We discuss being part of the community, shout out to Gregor Suttie and Richard Hooper for being awesome community peeps!
Dwayne shares how he worked towards his MVP status and we discuss comparing Cloud platforms using a fruit analogy.
Connect with Dwayne:
Twitter: @DwayneNcloud
www.captainhyperscaler.com
www.opsgility.com
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PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lisaattheedge
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Happy New Year! Welcome back to the first episode of 2021.
In this episode I am joined by the awesome human being that is Michael Levan. Michael shares his story of how he got in to tech, we both have a laugh and reminisce about World of Warcraft and then we take an unexpected turn.
We talk about career development, finding your passion and then have a really honest conversation about mental health and how 2020 affected us. This episode was an absolute joy to record and I am sure that you'll find a lot of value in our discussion.
Connect with Michael:
Twitter: @TheNJDevOpsGuy
GitHub - AdminTurnedDevOps (Mike Levan)
Email - michael.levan@clouddev.engineering
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PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lisaattheedge
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Welcome to Episode 25 and the last episode of 2020 - can you believe it?
In this episode I am joined by an awesome friend and colleague Mike Lamia. Mike shares with us his career story. A born technologist there is nothing else that Mike could imagine himself doing. Although one role and terribly managed server room almost made him consider it. But VMware and virtualisation saved the day and he stayed with the industry.
Mike now works in Technical Marketing at Dell Technologies focused on Azure Stack products and loves to 'make tech real' for our customers. We also discuss setting some goals for 2021 and I get a special commitment from Mike! Have you thought about your 2021 goals yet? Let us know in the comments below!
Check out some of the awesome content which Mike has produced:
Connect with Mike on Twitter @Evolving_Techie
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In this episode I am joined by the wonderful Holly Lehman. Holly is a Program Manager at Microsoft for the Azure CxP Partner Team and absolute Community Queen! In this episode we hear about Holly's career path from opening hotels in Las Vegas to Program Manager at Microsoft. We talk about why non-techies are needed in tech, our passion for people and community and why you shouldn't fear hearing NO. Holly also shares with us the reality of working and schooling from home and how supportive Microsoft have been during this pandemic. We also get to hear about how Head in the Cloud, Heart in the Community was born and a true friendship gained.
Connect with Holly on Twitter @Lehman__Holly
Subscribe to Head in the Cloud, Heart in the Community: Head in the Cloud, Heart in the Community - YouTube
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This is the third episode of a mini Azure Stack Family series with Darren Small and Kenny Lowe. We get stuck in to the Azure Stack portfolio and hybrid cloud and answer your questions.
In this episode we discuss the imminent launch of Azure Stack HCI. We talk about use cases with a focus on AKS. Kenny delivers a great explanation of how to differentiate between Azure Stack Hub and Azure Stack HCI. We clarify licensing and commercials for Azure Stack HCI as well as clarify what disconnected and connected mean when applying those terms to Azure Stack HCI and Hub. Kenny shares his set up for testing Hub with ASDK and HCI with WS labs. Azure Arc of course takes up some of our discussion and we talk about the Microsoft & Dell Technologies Centre of Excellence in partnership with Bordonaro IT in Germany.
If you have any questions for future episodes, let us know here: https://bit.ly/3o5Lru3
Darren is a Hybrid Technical Specialist at Microsoft and Kenny the Senior Manage for Open HCI Engineering Technologists at Dell Technologies.
You can connect with them both at the below Twitter handles and Links:
Twitter: @KennyLowe
Blog: http://www.azurestack.tips
Twitter: @DarrenMSFT
EPISODE LINKS:
CoE - Microsoft Azure Stack Center of Excellence powered by Dell Technologies (azurestack-coe.com)
WSLab: https://github.com/microsoft/wslab
Jaromir Kaspar (created WSLab): https://twitter.com/jaromirkaspar
PREVIOUS EPISODES:
The first episode is EP2 where we discuss how to make the perfect chip at home, the Azure Stack Family of products, how the portfolio and messaging has evolved as well as why Scotland is such a hub for technology: https://bit.ly/3iKUYoh
And the second episode is EP7 where we discuss why Azure Stack Edge is a perfect sidekick for Azure Stack Hub, the benefits of a disconnected Hub, what it means to run an appliance in your datacentre, AKS Engine and answer some questions. We also talk a bit about the barriers to innovation and why a culture shift and deep understanding of customer issues is required to reach the potential of this new edge capability: https://bit.ly/340Ax0q
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In this Episode I am joined by Ed Baker. Ed runs his own training and services company, is an MVP, MCT and all round awesome guy. In this episode Ed shares his journey from Police Officer to running his own business teaching Azure. We discuss the value of certifications, our feelings on maths, school and apprenticeships and Ed has finally come round to the naming of Azure Stack HCI.
Twitter: @edbaker1965
Blog: www.ed-baker.com
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Thomas is a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft focused on Azure and Hybrid and former MVP. Thomas runs a very successful blog jam packed with useful content on Azure Certification Guides, Windows Server, Azure IaaS and more. He is a successful speaker and I was extremely lucky to have him on the podcast.
In this episode we talk about Thomas's career path from apprentice to landing a dream role at Microsoft. We also discuss Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud terminology and then get stuck in to hot topic of the moment: Azure Arc.
Hopefully you enjoy this episode as much as I did.
Twitter: @ThomasMaurer
Blog: www.thomasmaurer.ch
At Microsoft Inspire in July there were some pretty big announcements regarding Azure Stack HCI. This resulted in a lot of excitement and a lot of questions. To help get some of those questions answered I pulled together some experts from the community and Microsoft to discuss the announcements and answer your questions.
From Microsoft I am joined by Darren Small, John Marlin and Thomas Maurer and we also have MVPs Kenny Low and Jan-Tore Pedersen.
I will publish a blog in the next week or so with a summary of our conversation and all of the questions and answers. In the mean time I have included some important links below so check them out!
For asking questions or reporting issues, you should go to https://aka.ms/hci-qa. Think of this as the old MSDN forums. When you ask a question, please ensure “azure-stack-hci” is the tag as this is what the Microsoft Product Group is searching on.
For suggesting new features or improvements, you can go to https://aka.ms/hci-uservoice.
For more information about Azure Stack HCI, you can visit our Azure Stack HCI page (https://azure.com/hci) or read through the various documentation (planning, deploying, etc) that is available at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-stack/hci/?branch=release-hci.
For the support billing options and pricing, you should be able to get it at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/plans/. The Premier/Unified Support option is not listed as this is not a specific Azure support offering, however, it does cover Azure Stack HCI. For opening up a support ticket, you can either call in or use the open a ticket through Azure.