Career

Sudo Show 30 with Dashaun Carter on loving your work.

We finally pulled off our first live event for the show. Episode 8 of the Sudo Show is the recap of our first ever AMA, where folks hopped on a video call and threw questions at Brandon and me for…

Back in 2020, Brandon and I sat down for Sudo Show episode 4, where we wrapped up our ‘getting started’ arc with a conversation about education, certifications, and how to actually grow a career in…

I have some very exciting news to share with you all!

I spent over seven years in IT before I really started to understand the breadth of the industry. Technology gets a bad rap for being such a deep field but not necessarily a broad one. In fact, when…

I had the pleasure of speaking at the Kansas City DevOps Meetup in downtown Kansas City! It was kind of like a coming home party. KC DevOps Days is where I got my start at GitLab and set me on a path…

This talk defined the voice of the IT Guy for me. This was the moment when the Sudo Show got its wings, when I realized that I was on the right track towards re-inventing my career. I had people in…

South East Linux Fest 2019 was an amazing test of the IT Guy…not as a brand but as the person I wanted to be in my career. I gave 3 talks in 3 days and spent a lot of time chatting with different…

Getting started in my career, I never imagined I would work in sales or go speak at conferences! I was very nervous and I think that showed. What was worse is I had the first breakout after lunch and…

A guest appearance on Ask Noah Show 110 about carving out a career in free and open source software.

The conference now seems like SO long ago! It was 4 crazy-packed days (plus 2 on the road) but it would not be overstating anything to say it has forever changed the course of my career.

Kansas City, Missouri to Denver Colorado, 1 Interstate, 609 miles, 8 hours of podcasts… Nothing but rain! However, the nice thing about this road trip was it gave me time to consider a few things…