Technically Religious

S1E38: End of Season Wrap-Up


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In our last episode of the season Josh and Leon look back at the stories that most stood out and the data that shows how we performed; and then look ahead to what next year will bring. Stick with us as we highlight some of the greatest moments of season one, and chart a course into season 2. Listen or read the transcript below.
Josh: 00:00 Welcome to our podcast where we talk about the interesting, frustrating and inspiring experiences we have as people with strongly held religious views working in corporate IT. We're not here to preach or teach you our religion. We're here to explore ways we make our career as IT professionals mesh - or at least not conflict - with our religious life. This is Technically Religious.Leon: 00:23 It's our last episode of the year. And so we're going to do what every major Hollywood production does.Josh: 00:27 Take a vacation to Hawaii and bring the film crew so we can expense it?Leon: 00:31 Uh, no.Josh: 00:32 And then do a retrospective episode so that we don't have to actually create that much!Leon: 00:36 Okay, so you're half right. Actually, maybe a third, right? Because we're still going to do a full episode.Josh: 00:40 And no Hawaii?Leon: 00:42 No Hawaii. So let's dive right in. I'm Leon Adato.Josh: 00:47 And I'm Josh Biggley. And while we normally start the show with a shameless self promotion today we're going to do an end of the year economy size version. Like we shopped at Costco,Leon: 00:57 Right, exactly. For all this stuff that we need for the end of year, all our parties and everything like that. Right. So instead of introducing just the two of us, we're going to introduce everyone who's been on the podcast this year. So here we go! Um, Josh, kick it off.Josh: 01:11 All right, so, uh, Josh Biggley, Tech Ops Strategy Consultant. Now with New Relic. You can find me on the Twitters @jbiggley. I am officially as of this last week officially. ex-Mormon.Leon: 01:20 Do I say congratulations?Josh: 01:22 I think so. Maybe there's a hallmark card for it. I don't know, but yeah, no, we officially resigned this week. It came through a Thursday, Wednesday. I don't remember. Uh, yeah, so that's it. We're done.Leon: 01:33 Okay. All right. And, uh, I'm Leon Adato. I'm a Head Geek at SolarWinds. You can find me on the Twitters @LeonAdato. I also pontificate on technical and religious things at https://www.Adatosystems.com. I am still Orthodox Jewish. I am not ex anything. Uh, and in the show notes, just so you know, we're going to list out everybody that we talk about in the next few minutes along with all of their social media connections and the episodes they appear in so you can look them up. We're just going to go back and forth on this one. So I'm going to kick it off. Doug Johnson was on our show. He's the CTO of WaveRFID.Josh: 02:08 Destiny Bertucci is the product manager at SolarWinds... uh, "A" product manager. They have lots of them. You can find her on the Twitters @Dez_sayz,Leon: 02:17 And also a program manager at Solarwinds, Kate Asaff.Josh: 02:21 All right. And Roddie Hasan, Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco.Leon: 02:25 Al Rasheed, who's contractor and virtualization admin. Extra-ordinaire.Josh: 02:28 Indeed. Xtrordinair, a Mike Wise president of blockchain wisdom. I see. I see what he did there.Leon: 02:35 Yeah, yeah. Blockchain wisdom, Wise-dom, right, whatever. Okay. Keith Townsend, who is CEO of CTO AdvisorJosh: 02:43 Yechiel Kalmenson is a software engineer at Pivotal. Yay.Leon: 02:47 Yay. I'm so glad that you got to say his name again. Cory Adler, who's lead developer at park place.Josh: 02:53 Rabbi. Ben Greenberg is developer advocate at Vonage.Leon: 02:57 Steven Hunt or "Phteven" as we like to call him, Steven Hunt, who is senior director of product management at DataCore software.Josh: 03:04 All right. Leon, you're going to have to help me here because I know I'm going to mis-pronounce this name.Leon: 03:08 Go for it. It's a hard "H". It's a hard H.Josh: 03:11
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