Melissa GurneyThe life of an Enterprise Specialist SEI’ve been talking to a lot of people across the company while working special projects lately. I have spoken to people in the Enterprise…Dec 3, 2015Dec 3, 2015
Melissa GurneyBattle Stories: Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Solving Problems at ScaleThis happened a few years ago. We deployed a solution for a retail customer and had some unexpected results up front. This is our story.Nov 26, 2015Nov 26, 2015
Melissa GurneyStress Relief TacticsI use a bit of a multi-pronged approach for stress relief. While maintaining perspective is important, having the right perspective can…Nov 25, 2015Nov 25, 2015
Melissa GurneyWhen the Levee BreaksThis post is a reflection. It has little to do with work beyond a bit of context -we are all juggling quite a bit. I think that we tend to…Nov 25, 2015Nov 25, 2015
Melissa GurneyThe Pinnacle Award!Early last week, I won the SE Pinnacle award for giving back as part of leading the Big Data Community Outreach Program for the West…Nov 24, 2015Nov 24, 2015
Melissa GurneyWhat I learned at Splunk ConfThis one is a bit on delay. I wrote up something for our internal teams… and now a blog!Nov 6, 2015Nov 6, 2015
Melissa GurneyBattle Stories: My first big projectThis is a story from my days in delivery. I was a GSAP with about 6 months on the job. I had done several little projects up until that…Nov 4, 2015Nov 4, 2015
Melissa GurneySometimes being a little devious can come in handy in technologyToday, I was sitting with my team lead talking about my next crusade with the product teams and he says, “Melissa you are devious” in a bit…Nov 3, 2015Nov 3, 2015
Melissa GurneyThoughts on MentoringA while ago, one of our local leaders asked me who my top 3 mentors at EMC were. Without really qualifying what he wanted to know, I gave…Nov 2, 2015Nov 2, 2015
Melissa GurneyBig Data Community Outreach Adventure v2.0In Q2, Scott Peyser launched a program to send SEs back to school to talk to kids about big data. I went back to 6th grade and spent an…Oct 26, 2015Oct 26, 2015