Author: jgm

  • What is a Solutions Architect?

    I’m not that interested in job titles. What a title implies always varies from organization to organization and rarely, if ever, tells the full story what a person does in their role. I’ve had more than one person ask me what I do for work and what a solutions architect is. This is my attempt…

  • Smart Notes

    If you are interested in writing better, then you need to take better notes. “How to Take Smart Notes” by Sönke Ahrens is an excellent read on keeping track of everything you read and processing your thoughts rather than just taking notes that have little to no context, and provide no real value after you’ve…

  • VoiceMaxxCE Tools

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    a.k.a. “vomaceto” Tools for managing and monitoring VoiceMaxxCE clusters. VoiceMaxxCE was a hosted collaboration solution based on Cisco’s HCS platform. A standard deployment included: Deployments could be larger based on the number of end users and their locations. I initially wrote the core of this tool to relieve my team of having to spend weekends…