Pivotal Moments with John Lam
By John Lam
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Episodes: 14
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Achieve your career and life goals sooner by learning from the pivotal moments of my guests. Each Monday a new guest, mostly working in tech and Microsoft, will share with you pivotal stories from their careers and lives and the lessons they learned. Hosted by John Lam.
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Ep. 14 Defying Conventional Wisdom: Harris Syed
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Ep. 13 Rong Lu: from Engineer to PM to Manager, her 16+ year journey at Microsoft
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Ep.12 Jill Jacobson: on UX Design at Microsoft, her circuitous journey to UX design from industrial design, and rediscovering joy from creative pursuits
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Ep.11 Tim Heuer: on changing from evangelism to product development, making changes to his health, and the characteristics of a great PM
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Ep.10 The Wisdom of my guests: looking at my conversations with my first 9 guests through the lens of Change, Trying on the Job for Size, and Mistakes
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Ep.9 Larry Osterman: on working at Microsoft for over 37 years from MS-DOS to Azure and advice on how to have a long and productive career at the company
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Ep.8 Sid Unnithan: on changing jobs at Microsoft, preparing for informational interviews, imposter syndrome and autonomy in the PM role
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May 30, 2022 |
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Ep.7 Dustin Campbell: on transitioning from PM to Dev mid-career, building .NET developer tools and escaping from a software sweatshop in Las Vegas
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May 23, 2022 |
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Ep.6 Jeffrey Mew: on experiences at Microsoft as an early-in-career PM, the Waterloo co-op experience and the impact that has had on him, and his love of optimization
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May 16, 2022 |
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Ep.5 Sharon Xu: on changing careers from finance to tech, how a joint degree in business and engineering made it possible and her experiments with art and social media
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May 09, 2022 |
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Ep.4 Leo Yao: on his immigrant journey from China to Microsoft, what it was like going to college and interning at Microsoft during COVID, and his first impressions of life as a PM
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May 02, 2022 |
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Ep.3 Ryan Bouchard: on using data science to grow products, managing a team of data scientists, and moving from the Army Rangers to a career at Microsoft
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Ep.2 Joe Binder: on what Program Managers really do, learning from his mistakes in his 18+ year career, and the balance he gets from kayaking on Puget Sound
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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Ep.1 Austin Henley: on moving from a professorship at Tennessee to Microsoft, open problems in developer tools research, and bouldering to strengthen the mind and body
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Apr 09, 2022 |