The 411

With a resume, a hiring team gets to the know the technical aspects of a persons career, but not necessary the driving attitudes or philiosphies. Hopefully below, you'll get a bit more of a glimpse into what I am about.

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Management Style - Nuturing
The way I see it, the people who work under me, don't work for me. They work with me. I take a bit more of a peer approach to managing people. I realize their value to the team, and although a team may have star players, it's the team that drives initiatives to success and not any one person. Everyone on the team can learn from me, and I can from them.

Project Management
We're all grown-ups when we go to work. I get the work, figure out who's best at it, and hand it off. I won't micro-manage anyone. A micro-managing boss says by their actions that they don't trust their team to do the job right. I've found that if I set the expectations, the timeframes and deadlines, check-in points, and who's eyeballs see the end product - the job gets done. When it doesn't, then we sit down and talk to make sure, it doesn't happen again.

Stress
I don't get stressed and freak out. I lay out a plan and run with the ball. Sometimes things happen. I sit down, reassess, and get running again. I don't berate people, or yell, or scream.

Getting My Hands Dirty
If I can do some of work, I will. The sleeves get rolled up, the midnight oil gets burned. I don't ask people to stay overnight if I wouldn't do it myself. Even if I have to be up at 2am to proof it, I'll be up.

Lunch and Loyalty
One thing I'm really good at is building loyalty into my team and networks. Loyalty in the workplace is pretty rare but it allows people to do that little bit more to be sure the job is done right. There's too much of this heiarchy mentality in the workplace. Managers associating only with managers, engineers with engineers, etc.

I've found lunch to be an incredibly powerful tool in building workplace relationships. People tend to be open about their opinions over lunch, and unlike afterwork events, it doesn't encroach on their personal time. And if the manager pays the bill out of their pocket, and not expense it, it says volumes about what they are willing to invest in their team.