Think and Grow Rich

I just completed this book.
In the last few weeks I have also read, The Richest Man in Babylon and Rich Dad Poor Dad.
This book was different in terms of style. It's basically about 13 concepts of self preparation that should lead to financial success. The best way to describe it as a cross between and self help/motivational book combined with personal finance. The concepts discussed are faith, desire, motivation, effort, etc etc. The combination of all of these aspects will lead you to financial success. Basically the book gets the reader to make a financial plan, and provides counterpoints for any doubts as to why the plan will not work. Pretty Solid book and worth the time if you ask me.

The Black Boilerplate treatment

The media covered the Sean Taylor tragedy horrendously.



Honestly, if the redskins contigent (Gibbs, Snyder, Cerratto, Williams) would not have spoke so highly of him, the media would be insulting him instead of saying he was unknown.

Academic Anabolics

It seems like the a the intellectual community is vulnerable to the same virus infecting Major League Baseball. Athletes and academics alike have been taking performance enhancing substances. ADD medication seams to bring the mind to some unforeseen level of focus and precision like steroids and HGD does for athletes.

The True Martyr

My definition of a martyr is one who gives up their life because of belief in their cause. Those that take their lives for a cause is a coward. The term is appropriate because anyone who choses not to live through obstacles of life deserves no accolades.
This is the difference between Benazir Bhutto and the coward suicide bomber that took her life. True martyrs die in battle as Ms. Bhutto did. She chose to come back to Pakistan after exile despite the threat to her person. She chose not to flee even after the first assassination attempt in October. She was a true warrior and may she rest in peace. Now the terrorist based nuclear Pakistan's chances for a democracy have been severely mitigated.

And then it hit me

A snippet from a great OurW post!

"When my sister said not to buy her anything, it really hit me. I failed to provide this Christmas. I can only imagine the devastation my unborn would feel if I couldn't provide on the biggest Holiday of the year. I will never let this happen again, I promise that. I will not allow myself to be in such a vulnerable state ever again. A setback is a setup for a comeback and mine will be greater than anything Elway ever did I kid you not."

Implausible Deniability

It looks like our President is playing the game of deniability.
We all know that he was aware of what happened to the tapes.
The key is that his knowledge is not official, and therefore we cannot place any official blame on him. So does that mean the President does not have control of his staff? That is what looks like.

Snoop's new song

• MTV
• Music Videos
• MTV Shows
• Entertainment News

Snoop's new song sounds similar to a T-pain type track.
The song is very catchy and should do well. What's more intriguing
is how long Snoop is waiting to release the album. Four months from single to album is a long time. I think this will allow him to release more songs for the album than previously.

Transition Training

I spent a greater part of today in job transition training. It was a service paid for by my previous employer. The class was quite helpful actually. It was provided by DB Associates. They spent the first part doing introductions and then got down to work. Basically we determined what our skills were from a list and how much we enjoyed doing that skill. This would help determine what job are most suitable. We also created a list of accomplishments to be transferred into resume aspects. They had a lists of jobs and functions to choose from. I always wondered where the professional resume writers got their words from. All of these will help craft a fine resume. The final thing I learned today is that there are several resume styles. The most popular is the self explanatory chronological type. Another kind, which I may quickly adopt, is a functional type. This resume style lists job functions and highlights diverse backgrounds.

Great $10 Wine

If you are looking for a nice cheap sub $10 white wine, then look no further than Geyser Peak's 2006 Sauvignon Blanc. It tastes good and will impress the snobs.

Stage 1, The Opening Chapter

Due to a cruel twist of fate, I got laid off. I didn't know what to feel besides anger and frustration. I was mad that I got fired, straight up. I also wanted to blame myself for the situation. I later found out that lay offs are usually business based and not performance dictated. A former colleague later informed me that the company dismantled our whole group and decided to terminate my position. My former manager said he is willing to write me a letter of recommendation so I apparently was meeting expectations. Their SG&A was too high and they needed to make some changes and meet earnings. I am now beginning the quest for a new career. I am very qualified and capable to do many a role at many types of companies. I'm an Electrical Engineer by degree and I've had roles in sales, marketing, management, product management, and engineering. Many companies have leadership engagement programs where they rotate employees to multiple organizations for specific durations. I created my own rotation and stayed in each role for a about to years in most cases. I hope the companies I am looking can see the benefits of my diverse resume. I created a solid career plan designed to give me the appropriate experience to run a company. I will continue to grow but I've seen every part of a company save operations. I'm still not sure how much there is to gain by taking on that type of rule, but experience is always the best way to get credibility.

The beginning and my resume

JONATHAN D. TROTTER




SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Highly motivated and results-oriented engineering professional possessing experience in Sales, Management and Marketing of cutting edge technology solutions. A consummate professional with a superior track record of applying analysis skills that successfully resolve complex technical issues. An independent thinker, with outstanding communications and interpersonal skills having extensive experience working with diverse groups.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


ALTERA– San Jose, California 2006 – Present
Product Marketing Manager August 2006 – Present
Responsible for driving the right sales and marketing tools and demand generation needs of Altera’s Worldwide IP Partner community.

 Managed infrastructure of complex Partner Solution’s program
 Executed marketing campaigns designed to position solutions, promote their value propositions, and instill confidence to the sales force
 Partnered with Planning, Sales, Business Units to identify gaps or opportunities for new partner products
XILINX – San Jose, California 1998 – 2006
Program Manager 2004 – 2006
Understood business process and policy dependencies to deliver new products and facilitated discussions to assess critical customer requirements.
 Conducted personnel training for 800-member sales force on opportunity recognition and positioning
 Facilitated Contract Negotiation, PO collection, and invoicing growing business revenue over a $1,000,000
 Created and launched 3 innovative Global Services design to increase product’s available market

Customer Applications Manager 2002 – 2004
Advanced to lead operation of Customer Applications Team in supporting technical requests from customers, distributors and field application engineers
 Successfully managed 10-member engineering team, facilitated team meetings between three global locations, created training initiatives, conducted performance evaluations and wrote productivity progress reports that expedited personnel advancements
 Recognized for exceptional team goal development and consistently ranked as leading engineering team with highest level of customer satisfaction and productivity

Field Applications Engineer 2000 – 2002
Aggressively pursued, uncovered and targeted new business opportunities that generated increased corporate revenue through product sales, account retention and territory expansion.
 Worked seamlessly within channel partner’s corporate structure during sales rotation
 Provided technical expertise to programmable logic account management team
 Earned Design Wins at accounts such as Alcatel CATC, Netscreen, and Northrup Grumman

Customer Applications Engineer 1998 – 2000
Brought on to provide technical troubleshooting on software, hardware and design issues on offered products.

EDUCATION

CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN LUIS OBISPO– San Luis Obispo, California 1998
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Accomplishments-Captain and MVP of 1996 Football Team


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