Reference Letters

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For each reference, where feasible, additional information is available for download.  Phone references can be scheduled by contacting me directly. (Please send the request using the contact me page) Other vendor and client references available upon request. Client / Employer References Steve Cohen CEO / Owner - LMS Consulting Services Steve Cohen Mohan Sankararaman SVP/Deputy CIO, Small Business and Middle Market - ...

Princess

Dedicated to the Memory of My Puppy – “Princess”. She was the most amazing dog I ever owned. She had a way making everything seem okay – even if the world was falling in around me. Just looking in those big blue eyes, feeling the unconditional love that only a dog can give, made all things work out somehow. Sometimes, …

Saying Goodbye to a Best Friend

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Today we lost our family pet, Princess "Puppy". She was a 12 year old Harlequin Great Dane with the most amazing, gentle and fun-loving personality. You know, you never really know how much they are a part of your life until they are gone. Yesterday, she was playing in the yard like a puppy - it was nuts, then late ...

Applying EA Frameworks

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Lately, I have been in several meetings surrounding the future state of Enterprise Architecture, therefore I wanted to take a moment and re-group and discuss the basics around tackling "Strategic Thinking".   In my view, to be successful when planning for a "future state" of any mission-critical application it is essential to consider the long-term implications of the overall objectives ...

LinkedIn Top 10% – Really?

Rick LapennaMy World 5 Comments

I recently received an email from LinkedIn that my profile was in the top 10% most viewed for 2012. I thought to myself, nice – look at me and how special I am – (right?), but what does this really mean? Am I really that special? Seriously? Then that skeptical side of myself surfaced, thinking what are they after, is …

Missing RSS Feeds in OSX? What?

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One thing you won’t find in Mountain Lion’s Mail app—at least as it stands today—is the RSS feature. Whereas in Lion you can subscribe to an RSS feed in Mail in order to be alerted to, and to read, newly published articles from your favorite websites, that feature appears to be gone from Mail in Mountain Lion. Mail’s preferences window …

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App Monitors on Steroids!

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In August of this year I attended VMWare's SpringOne 2GX conference. It was good, but I was more interested in looking for "operational" advancements in support of cloud-centric applications - like those running virtualized in cloud-fabric like EC2 and the like. While there I stopped by a booth called "AppDynamics". These guys were exiles from CA for the most part ...