Lauren Surman

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Welcome!

There's always something happening over here so let me break it down for you 👇

𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 - Retained & Contingent [𝘸𝘸𝘸.𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘯.𝘤𝘰]

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𝐉𝐨𝐛 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 - Find Your Next Role in 90 Days [𝘸𝘸𝘸.𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘯.𝘤𝘰]
 
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 - Each Week at 3pm Eastern [𝘸𝘸𝘸.𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘯.𝘤𝘰𝘮/𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺/𝘵𝘩𝘦-𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘺-𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦-𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩-𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘯-𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸]

I don't respond to every LinkedIn DM, so if you need me email me at Lauren@Lessonswithlauren.co and yes it's .co not .com 

If you are a job seeker and want me to put your email in my database to scan when I get open roles please email your resume in a .doc format to lauren@lessonswithlauren.co with the subject line New Candidate Resume. Please do not DM me your resume or ask me to keep you in mind for upcoming opportunities. Instead please email your resume or apply for one of the open roles I have posted. 

My background spans from hospitality to construction then sales, I've started multiple companies and am currently loving growing my own recruiting and consulting agency, LWL Consulting. I love to go to local networking events and want to keep growing my local network. 

I work in Boca Raton Florida at a wonderful space with tons of co-working space - if you are ever in South Florida and looking for a great place to work reach out to me. 

Cheers and thanks for being here 🙌

Recruiter

I'm a server and infrastructure guy with a penchant for the big picture and a lifelong love of technology.

I'm not looking for new opportunities at this time.

Ask me about my homelab, and ignore the huge backlog of projects. I've redone my home networks for the end of my Meraki licenses, then switched back. I've worked in networking and storage although it's been a little while. I have never been a developer. I've never waited tables (even database tables) but respect those who do. I admit what I don't know and learn quickly. 

Today I'm an engineering product manager for UCS networking in the compute business at Cisco. 

From 2022-2023 I was product line manager for software management products at Supermicro. 

From 2018-2020 I focused on channel partner enablement, partner sales engineering, solutions engineering at Cisco. 

From 2014-2018 I played storyteller/matchmaker between big data ISVs, Cisco channel partners and internal sales teams, and occasionally a customer or 100. I've been doing big data since late 2003/early 2004 (really) and Hadoop since probably 2008 (CDH1). I presented at partner events and public conferences including Strata+Hadoop World (2x) and Cisco Live (4x, Distinguished Speaker). 

On the first day at Cisco (right after lunch), I pushed a half million dollar deal over the edge with my personal experience outweighing a competitor's positioning. From then on, I brought context and proportion to challenging situations, helping our customers succeed and our sales teams make money. I believe those two should not be mutually exclusive, and I consider it my mission to bring them together wherever I work. 

Before Cisco, I was a senior level Silicon Valley systems operations professional with nearly 20 years (different years, even) of production UNIX system administration in multiple varieties of UNIX (Solaris, Linux, BSD) as well as experience in other desktop and server platforms. I built a proven history of delivering enterprise class scalable server, network, and DR/BC environments within stringent budget and time restraints.

I blog at rsts11.com and rsts11travel.com. 

Specialties: Big data platforms, hardware, and education; system administration, hardware planning and management (even clouds need hardware), Hadoop, written English (documentation is our friend), UNIX-based email systems, coffee preparation & procurement, operations team building and sustaining. 

I'm not a developer or coder although I can read or tweak some code. I don't have an MBA or a PhD. 

I'm not looking for new opportunities at this time.

Robert Novak

I just posted a cluster deployment walk-through on the Cisco Community site, rolling out Proxmox VE 9.1 from Proxmox Server Solutions on the Cisco UCS X210c M7 modular servers. 

It was a fun and productive effort, having not touched Intersight for the larger part of the last decade. Next up in the time machine recovery, I'll be writing up Ceph deployment on VE 9.1 after about 13 years away from Ceph (I last used it on Cisco UCS C220 M3S at Disney Interactive in 2013 or so, trying to deal with Tanenbaum's Law and a datacenter migration). 

Are you running Proxmox VE on Cisco UCS? Tell me what's going on in the comments.

🚝Robert Novak

Open article: Proxmox Virtual Environment for Cisco UCS Servers by community.cisco.com

Proxmox Virtual Environment for Cisco UCS Servers

If you are using AI to write/edit for you, you are destroying your authenticity as a person, damaging your credibility and ensuring that your relationships stay transactional. Maybe you are in an industry  where the speed of the transaction is all that matters.

They also tend to be the lowest margin businesses. Just understand what drives your growth and revenue.

Here is what AI did to this post. Maybe someone would read this and think it's better but it's not me. I wouldn't use prioritize, articulate, or self-expression. I want to be more direct.

If you aren't capable of expressing yourself well, take a writing course. Who cares if there is the occassional typo or incorrect grammar. It's real.

I can't trust anyone who isn't capable of putting a sentence together without being coached by AI. (Ignoring language and ther barriers.)

There. I said it.

In case you were wondering, you can make an AI service generate a typo. So just as em dashes don't prove AI involvement, typos (or as Dan Quayle might say, typoes) don't disprove it. 

#themoreyouknow

And for what it's worth, every one of the 919,648 words I've written on my fiction projects since January 1, 2024, were written (or dictated) organically. 

And in case you want to contribute to my caffeine fund, there's a referral link for Four Sigmatic in the comments. I get $10, you get 20% off. If you don't, that's fine. I still go through several pounds of it a month whether it's subsidized by friendly readers or not.

Who wouldn't want to go through a new account process for every application in the same platform, manually entering your resume after uploading it, realizing no human will ever look at more than 5 words of it? 

Been there, done that.

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