Conversations with Interesting People - The Marion

Linda Curry -  Retired Software Executive, Gardener,  Breast Cancer Survivor, Wife , Mother, Grandmother and Friend - Episode 13 Marion Vermazen Podcast Creating this podcast has reminded me of what amazing and interesting friends I have. A few months ago I interviewed my friend Pat Black. Today's episode of the podcast is a conversation with my friend Linda Curry. Here is a picture of Linda, Pat and I at my wedding.   Linda and I have been friends for 35 years. Linda recently retired from a career as an executive in the high tech software industry. Most recently she was a Senior Manager for QuickBooks Quality Assurance at Intuit. Prior to working at Intuit Linda’s career included postions as VP of Engineering Services at WebGain, Director of Quality assurance at Remedy, Director of Database quality assurance at Borland, and Senior Manager of Mac System software at Apple. Last year she moved to Reno and lives right around the corner from me. She describes herself as Happily retired from the software world and enjoying relaxation with family, friends, books, gardening, remodeling and all the other things that we like to do in our free time. She is a wife, mother and grandmother and I am honored to call her my friend. To listen to the show you can click below. You can also subscribe to the show and listen to it in iTunes. MVP0013 Links Renown Institute for Cancer Army of Women National Cancer institute    

Lisa Louise Cooke - Creator and Host of the Genealogy Gems Podcast - Episode 12 - Marion Vermazen Podcast This podcast is available in the iTunes store. It would help me a lot if you would go to the store and write a review. To find the podcast just search the store for VermazenYou can listen to my interview with Lisa in iTunes or by clicking on the link below. MVP0012 Lisa Louise Cooke has been a genealogist since a very young age. She has a passion for genealogy. About three years ago she followed her passion into podcasting and started the Genealogy Gems Podcast. . Today that podcast is one of the most popular genealogy podcasts available. Lisa also does Genealogy training, speaks frequently at conferences nationwide, blogs, produces genealogy training videos, has written a book about genealogy and produces a podcast and writes for Family Tree Magazine. Here are links to some of the things we discussed in our conversation. The Genealogy Gems website Lisa's interview with Dr. Robert Leonard Ph.D. about Forensic Linguistics for Genealogy Lisa's Mastering Google Search class at Family Tree University Lisa's Family Tree Magazine Podcast

M.E. Harrigan - Author of 9800 Savage Road and 27 Year Veteran of the NSA - Episode 11 -  Marion Vermazen PodcastThe Marion Vermazen Podcast is now available in the iTunes store!! You can click here if you would like to see the podcast in the iTunes store. I don't have any reviews yet so you can help me out by going to the iTunes store and and reviewing the podcast. I recently read and reviewed 9800 Savage Road  by M.E. (Betsy) Harrigan. It is an exciting and engaging book.9800 Savage Road is the address of the National Security Agency, a super secret agency of the U.S. government that collects signals intelligence. NSA has been around for almost 60 years and Betsy is the first insider ever to publish a book about NSA. In this eleventh episode of the Marion Vermazen Podcast I sit down and talk to Betsy about her experiences writing her first book and working at the National Security Agency.You can also listen to my interview with Betsy Harrigan by clicking below.MVP0011 Here are links to some of the things we discussed: The National Security Agency 9800 Savage Road by M.E. Harrigan The Terror by Dan Simmons The Once and Future King by T.H. White The Week Magazine The Atlantic Magazine Betsy's website with information about her upcoming appearance in San Carlos, California

Pat Black -  We Talk About Tissue and Organ Donation, Family and Friendship - Episode 10 The Marion Vermazen PodcastTo listen to the show you can click below.MVP0010 When My friend Pat Black and I recently sat down to talk we discussed a wide ranging group of topics including her family's over 150 year history in California, her parents meeting in England during World War II, her work helping to promote organ and tissue donation and our more than 30 year friendship.If you would like to know more about organ and tissue donation Pat recommended that you check out the Donate Life web site.  

Eric Richert - Knowledge Work Infrastructure Consultant, Former VP of Sun Microsystems iWork and Open Work Programs, Hiker, and Director for Kirkwood Meadow Public Utility District - Episode 9 Marion Vermazen PodcastOne of the things that I did when I was working at Sun Microsystems was to help develop tools and systems to give Sun employees the best, most productive and effective work environment possible. The products that we developed included a work from home program, a flexible office program and change management and collaborations tools among other things. The program was called Open Work or iWork and I am very proud to have been a part of it. My guest on the podcast today is Eric Richert who was my boss  during my last few years at Sun. Eric was Vice President, of Open Work Solutions at Sun.  Eric also is an avid hiker and talks about his recent trip to the Dolomites in our conversation To listen to the podcast run your mouse over the bar below. You will see a play button that you can click on.MVP0009 You can find the article by Horst Rittel  which talks about wicked and tame problems here. There is also a Horst Rittle Melvin Webber article on the same subject here. The Wikipedia article about Wicked problems is available here. If you would like to know more about Sun's Open Work program the Sun web page about Open Work is here.