LogSeq/pages/SelfAssessment.md

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• Bold goals - Describe the goals you achieved and the contributions and impact you delivered. Please include 2-3 examples.
  • [Complete intial deployments of @Equinix hardware , Ensure GA of PCE@Equinix program, Engage with customer opportunities to ensure successful deployments of PCE@Equinix] My primary focus for FY24 was delivering on the Private Cloud at Equinix and PCE at Equinix programs by completing the initial hardware deployments (for both the network infrastructure and the PCE pre-deployments), bringing the PCE at Equinix offer to GA, while also supporting the parallel PCBE and PCAI programs. Alongside these program efforts I have fielded and supported multiple sales enquiries with the aim of landing our first PC@Equinix deal. These items were all achieved and given the headwinds we faced going into FY24 I am particularly proud of this outcome.
  • [Foster new innovations] As a secondary focus, I looked to foster and encourage innovation in HPE and was very happy to be invited to be a reviewer for the TechCon summit again this year. This is always a very rewarding process and allows me an opportunity to use my technical background to provide guidance and feedback to our up and coming engineers.
• HPE Beliefs - Describe how you demonstrated the (Obsess over the Customer, Demonstrate We Before I, and Exercise Healthy Impatience). Please include 2-3 examples.
  • Healthy Impatience - It's very easy, especially with internal customers, to not push as aggressively for internal goals as you do when external clients are driving the timeline. I strive to bring the timeliness and forward drive that I learned in my years as an consultant to external clients, and aim to deliver the same urgency and quality metrics to my internal clients. A good example of this was the ordering/build/deployment of the PCE Pre-Deployment units as part of the PCE@Equinix program - with no hard deadlines to work to, I maintained a healthily impatience driving the team to get the systems deployed as soon as possible.
  • Obsess over the Customer - I think this belief is tightly interlinked with Healthy Impatience, and forms part of providing a positive experience for both internal and external customers. One of the key lessons I learned from consulting is that to be able to apply this belief you truly need to understand the goals, motivations and external drivers of your clients and I always try to keep these external factors in mind when both advising and driving delivery for those clients (and partners). For example, one of the PC@Equinix marketables (M1617) required balancing our contractual obligations to Equinix, Equinix's desire to see a return on their investment and our internal engineering capacity - keeping all of these in mind helped me drive engineering progress whilst maintaining good standing with our partner Equinix.
• My top 1-2 areas of strength are:
  • Strong technical background - numerous times over the course of the PC@Equnix and PCE@Equinix programs I've been able to leverage my technical background to better guide and 'sanity check' our engineering resources to drive the delivery of a better quality product. This skillset has also been very helpful when assisting our Equinix Product Management peers, who may not have the technical background/experience, to understand the technical answers (and reasoning) coming from out engineering teams. Finally, my background in the various hyperscaler offerings has be crucial is working through the internal compliance to resell Equinix Digital services to our end customers.
  • Balancing priorities - As part of my current role (and previous ones) there has been a strong need to balance often competing priorities (and external pressures) while ensuring that both high and low priority tasks get completed on time. This often requires thoughtful delegation, or leveraging technologies and systems to accelerate work where needed.
• My top 1-2 development opportunities are:
  • I would like to find more opportunities to a) leverage my skillset to communicate technical concepts to less technical resources and be that bridge for communication, and b) find was to mentor junior resources
• Include additional information about your contributions, progress against your Leadership Capability & Development Bold Goal, and your professional growth throughout the year.
  • I strongly believe that my ability to 'stay the course' regardless of the headwinds, distractions, competing priorities, road blocks and organizational shift has allowed my programs to achieve some measure of success in somewhat uncertain times.
• BOLD GOALS

  • Complete intial deployments of @Equinix hardware

  • Ensure GA of PCE@Equinix program

  • Engage with customer opportunities to ensure successful deployments of PCE@Equinix

  • Foster new innovations

  • Attain TCP DT status

  • Return to a manager role