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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 the... more
FAQs about Pivotal Moments with John Lam:How many episodes does Pivotal Moments with John Lam have?The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.
August 15, 2022Ep. 14 Defying Conventional Wisdom: Harris SyedHarris Syed defied conventional wisdom in his unlikely journey from Pakistan to the Partner band at Microsoft....more59minPlay
July 11, 2022Ep. 13 Rong Lu: from Engineer to PM to Manager, her 16+ year journey at MicrosoftRong is a PM Manager at Microsoft and a 16+ year veteran of Developer Division. This is the story of her journey from engineer to PM to PM Manager, and from China to the United States....more41minPlay
June 27, 2022Ep.12 Jill Jacobson: on UX Design at Microsoft, her circuitous journey to UX design from industrial design, and rediscovering joy from creative pursuitsJill shares with us her story of resilience and grit that leads to her current position as a Senior UX Designer at Microsoft. Jill turned the disappointment of being fired from her first job in industrial design into a successful career designing some of the most complex user interfaces at Microsoft....more50minPlay
June 20, 2022Ep.11 Tim Heuer: on changing from evangelism to product development, making changes to his health, and the characteristics of a great PMTim Heuer is a Principal PM Manager at Microsoft. A 17 year veteran of the company, Tim shares with us some pivotal moments in his life: getting healthier, transitioning from evangelism to product, moving and getting re-org'd at the company, becoming a people manager, and creating a healthy work-life balance....more44minPlay
June 13, 2022Ep.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 MistakesLooking back at the interviews with my first 9 guests through the lens of Change, Trying the Job on for Size, and Mistakes....more49minPlay
June 06, 2022Ep.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 companyLarry Osterman is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, and he's been here for over 37 years! In a career that starts with MS-DOS and continues today with Azure, Larry has seen it all and shares not only his stories, but the accumulated wisdom he has gained in his distinguished career....more1h 41minPlay
May 30, 2022Ep.8 Sid Unnithan: on changing jobs at Microsoft, preparing for informational interviews, imposter syndrome and autonomy in the PM roleSid Unnithan is an early in career Program Manager 2 on my team whose career spans both Windows and the Python team in DevDiv. We talk about the importance of having autonomy in your job. How product building is a team sport, how to deal with negativity from others and how to interview to move laterally within the company....more1h 8minPlay
May 23, 2022Ep.7 Dustin Campbell: on transitioning from PM to Dev mid-career, building .NET developer tools and escaping from a software sweatshop in Las VegasDustin Campbell is a Principal Software Development engineer at Microsoft who's been working on .NET developer tooling for the past 15 years. He's also a jazz guitarist, a reformed spam tools creator and an escapee from a software sweatshop in Las Vegas....more1h 22minPlay
May 16, 2022Ep.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 optimizationJeffrey is a graduate of the co-op program at the University of Waterloo. In his 3 years at Microsoft, he has shipped the Jupyter Notebooks in VS Code experience, partnered with Facebook on PyTorch tooling, and is building a brand new data wrangling experience in VS Code....more1h 15minPlay
May 09, 2022Ep.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 mediaSharon Xu is a Program Manager on the Python Team at Microsoft, holder of a degree in Engineering and Business from the University of Western Ontario in Canada, and a retired currency trader....more1h 13minPlay
FAQs about Pivotal Moments with John Lam:How many episodes does Pivotal Moments with John Lam have?The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.