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Someone wrote an email at work
about me ....
   
...but they didn’t send it to me.
   
Someone else forwarded me the
email.
   
This is what it said...
I've had the opportunity and pleasure of
working with Mike Foley
for several years now in my role as JON
Program Manager and Mike's
corresponding role as JON QE lead. During
that time Mike's continued
initiative, creativity, diplomacy and leadership
have been evident.
   
Some quick examples:
-- Growing his team, and mentoring
individual's growth within that team.
He consistently gives his team members
"starring roles" in cross-team
efforts. He is diligient about giving credit
where due.
   
-- Growing infrastructure/automation and
sharing across teams. Mike oversaw
the procurement and deployment of a
bladecenter, architecting a Chef framework
for multiplatform testing, and shared this out
with other QE teams when opportunities
arose. He's also been very involved with
docker images for JON testing.
   
-- Excellent communication skills, as
evidenced by his weekly PM call
participation,
QE team reports, issue-oriented emails, etc.
I'd also refer to any of his Root Cause
Analysis (RCA) meetings as text book
examples of having meaningful, data-driven
discussions in a manner that does not put
anyone on the defensive.
   
--Cross-team encouragement: Working with
Dev to institute feature completeness
demonstrations. This has been a huge win for
JON, and would be a great practice
for other teams to emulate.-
   
-Cross-functional leadership: When I joined
the team years ago, Mike was leading the
bugzilla triage sessions, simply because it
needed to be done. In recent times he has
taken the initiative to schedule and lead
release retrospectives. In my experience,
neither of these are traditionally QE lead
responsibilities. He did a great job on all of
them.
   
--Cross product leaderhip: JON Plugins have
historically been a very tough domain wrt
cross-product testing and inter-release
coodination. Along with GSS lead Larry
O'Leary and productization engineer Simeon
Pinder, Mike was instrumental in setting up
training and enablement for the managed
product teams. He has also encouraged
plug-in testingautomation, and helped to
enable it where possible. In particular, the
JDG team has praised the support received
from Mike's team on this front.
   
--His inherent sense of priority is spot on. The
issues he highlights with the team do,
in fact, turn out to be the most important
issues at hand. He keeps them on the team
radar in a diplomatic but persistent fashion.
   
-I’ve been significantly impressed by Mike's
productivity, vision, diplomacy and
leadership!
Regards,
Mark

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Someone at work wrote an eamil about me, but didn't send it to me. I am glad someone else forwarded me the email.

  • 1.     Someone wrote an email at work about me ....
  • 2.     ...but they didn’t send it to me.
  • 3.     Someone else forwarded me the email.
  • 4.     This is what it said... I've had the opportunity and pleasure of working with Mike Foley for several years now in my role as JON Program Manager and Mike's corresponding role as JON QE lead. During that time Mike's continued initiative, creativity, diplomacy and leadership have been evident.
  • 5.     Some quick examples: -- Growing his team, and mentoring individual's growth within that team. He consistently gives his team members "starring roles" in cross-team efforts. He is diligient about giving credit where due.
  • 6.     -- Growing infrastructure/automation and sharing across teams. Mike oversaw the procurement and deployment of a bladecenter, architecting a Chef framework for multiplatform testing, and shared this out with other QE teams when opportunities arose. He's also been very involved with docker images for JON testing.
  • 7.     -- Excellent communication skills, as evidenced by his weekly PM call participation, QE team reports, issue-oriented emails, etc. I'd also refer to any of his Root Cause Analysis (RCA) meetings as text book examples of having meaningful, data-driven discussions in a manner that does not put anyone on the defensive.
  • 8.     --Cross-team encouragement: Working with Dev to institute feature completeness demonstrations. This has been a huge win for JON, and would be a great practice for other teams to emulate.-
  • 9.     -Cross-functional leadership: When I joined the team years ago, Mike was leading the bugzilla triage sessions, simply because it needed to be done. In recent times he has taken the initiative to schedule and lead release retrospectives. In my experience, neither of these are traditionally QE lead responsibilities. He did a great job on all of them.
  • 10.     --Cross product leaderhip: JON Plugins have historically been a very tough domain wrt cross-product testing and inter-release coodination. Along with GSS lead Larry O'Leary and productization engineer Simeon Pinder, Mike was instrumental in setting up training and enablement for the managed product teams. He has also encouraged plug-in testingautomation, and helped to enable it where possible. In particular, the JDG team has praised the support received from Mike's team on this front.
  • 11.     --His inherent sense of priority is spot on. The issues he highlights with the team do, in fact, turn out to be the most important issues at hand. He keeps them on the team radar in a diplomatic but persistent fashion.
  • 12.     -I’ve been significantly impressed by Mike's productivity, vision, diplomacy and leadership! Regards, Mark