\nWhile I was a bit caught off guard, the response from the community has been beyond humbling. I never imagined so many people that directly knew, as well as even more I didn’t directly know, would reach out to me with as much support and potential opportunity.<\/p>\n
I had a great time at VMware. I met tons of people, and got to contribute to the best HCI product on the market as part of a wonderful team. I was pretty amazed when suggestions I had made, made it into shipping ESXi\/vSAN code, as well as how some of the guidance I provided, helped some of VMware’s largest vSAN and even vSphere customers accomplish their goals.<\/p>\n
While the role was one of the best I’ve had, it did miss something. Something that I hadn’t had in a while. It was much harder to see the direct impact I made on customers, as the role was somewhat removed. Sure I was often part of customer calls, presented at VMworld & VMUGs from time to time, but I didn’t have that direct customer involvement.<\/p>\n
The RIF<\/strong> It wasn’t that I was unhappy with the vSAN TM team, but quite the contrary. I had a great time on the vSAN team. I loved working with all the folks there. I wish them much success and happiness personally & professionally.<\/p>\n This was the first time I was included in part of a Reduction in Force. Good or bad, it is part of business. I am very thankful to how generous VMware has been with taking care of me and my family during this hectic time.<\/p>\n I got several calls\/emails\/texts from folks far and wide with interest for me coming to work with them. The roles, responsibilities, and descriptions were all over the place. Which would I choose?<\/p>\n The choices<\/strong> One company, boss, and team stood out though. That company was Pure Storage<\/a>.\u00a0 I couldn’t be more excited to join Pure Storage, and I can’t wait to get started.<\/p>\n Thank you<\/strong> God bless!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was part of the 2020 VMware Reduction in Force (RIF). My time at VMware While I was a bit caught off guard, the response … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-storage-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3932,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions\/3932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnyone who looks at my LinkedIn<\/a> or has seen a copy of my resume, can put a pattern together. I spend about 5 years, give or take 6 months, in any role I’ve been in. In fact I had been looking non-chalantly for the past year for something else that I might enjoy doing.<\/p>\n
\nSome of the companies seemed interested, while others didn’t seem overly concerned or interested. “Yeah, you might be a good fit.” or “We could maybe use you doing this\/that.” I also had some interest from some companies that appeared to only be concerned with my security clearance, and not particularly me.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/purestorage.png\")
<\/a>I’ve got a lot of respect for quite a few colleagues at Pure, like Jon Owings<\/a> – (named the SE GSD of 2019<\/a>), Cody Hosterman<\/a>, \u00a0Andrew Miller <\/a>(named the Principal SE of the Year 2019<\/a>), and countless others. I’m going to be VMware focused (well mostly) Field Solutions Architect on the same team as my former-VMware best bud David Stamen<\/a> who also announced<\/a> that he’s joining Pure.<\/p>\n
\nI’d also like to reiterate my thanks to all those that reached out to me after the RIF. Whether it was a “Really enjoyed working with you”, a “I don’t know of anything open, but I’ll keep my eyes open for ya!”, or a “Let me get your r\u00e9sum\u00e9 to submit for XYZ role.” type reach out, I tremendously appreciate it. I wish each and every one of you the best success. I’ll also say, do not hesitate to reach out to me if you find yourself in the same situation.<\/p>\n