Navigating Changes and Embracing New Challenges with Sirinda Glasgow | Episode 001 Part 2

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Episode Summary: In the second part of the Career Downloads interview with Sirinda Glasgow, she delves deeper into her career journey, sharing pivotal moments and decisions that shaped her path. Sirinda discusses her return to MGM Resorts, the challenges of outsourcing, and how she navigated these transitions. She also touches on her move to Dell, transitioning from a hands-on technical role to a Sales Engineer position, and the new set of challenges and learning experiences that came with it.

Guest: Sirinda Glasgow

Key Topics:

– Transitioning back to a familiar environment. – Outsourcing Dynamics and the impact of outsourcing local operations. – Moving from a customer role to a sales and advisory position. – Family and Work-Life Balance: Managing a demanding career while raising three children. – The evolution of server technology and virtualization. – Career Advice and Insights: Adapting to new roles and responsibilities. – The importance of continuous learning and staying current with industry trends.

Memorable Quotes:

“I needed to make the decision whether I was going to stay and be part of this opening where a lot of things are changing or make my exit.”

“Whatever career you go into, at a certain point, you become responsible for that business. You’re on call whether you think you’re on call or not.”

Tune in to gain insights from Sirinda’s rich experience and learn how to navigate career changes, embrace new challenges, and find a balance between professional and personal life.

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Transcription

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Sirinda: As they got close to opening, coming out of bankruptcy, the folks that came in were going to make a lot of changes. And it’s about a year out from opening. Either I make a decision and they had me on a contract and the contract came up. So I needed to make the decision whether I was going to stay and be part of this opening where a lot of things are changing. It makes me a little nervous, right? And a whole new team. Or is this the time that I make my exit? Because everything’s changing, they don’t necessarily need me at this point, right? Like I’ve delivered all this way. And now if you’re not going to kind of implement what we’ve already done.

Manuel: If you’re not going to utilize me the way that I was brought out to do.

Sirinda: Do I need to stay? And MGM resorts asked me to come back. So I went back.

Manuel: And when the MGM, was it the same person, a different person?

Sirinda: Some, same. There are a lot of people that were there for a long time. And so I knew a lot of the people when I went back, it was kind of like going home.

Manuel: Right.

Sirinda: And the only bad thing is, is I get back. I’m super happy. System Engineering role. And they started outsourcing. [Laughter] So I got to be a part of like that whole outsource planning. Like what does that look like? What is a RACI? Who’s responsible?

Manuel: So when you say outsourcing, they were looking to outsource all the internal like everything or portions of it? Like what?

Sirinda: It was supposed to, so they had outsourced one portion previously and now they were going to outsource more. More of the like infrastructure pieces, right? So they brought in some different companies, evaluated about five, narrowed it down and then picked one outsource provider. And so once I turned over a lot of my stuff, so I worked a lot with the Linux/Unix guy, he was actually from Ireland. So they’re scattered. They’re a big global company, which the only problem and challenge there is you had all Las Vegas people, if you had to take down the casinos and multiple casinos running on a central system. Now, like over the years, we had come to a