Michael Parker
Michael Parker
dealing easy harder last makeup match success team transition work year
It hasn't been an easy transition from last year to this year, but we're dealing with it. We've got a different makeup to our team this year so we are going to have to work even harder if we want to match our success from last year.
living mentality peaceful
I like living out there. It's peaceful and quiet. Our mentality is such that if you have a weekend, you can really be away from your working world.
data feature included needs offering providing rather tape
It's not a company, it's not a product, it is a feature set that needs to be included in data protection. We don't see it so much as cannibalizing, but rather it will be complementary. Tape is not going away. This is just another offering providing complementary functionality.
blame everybody transcends
Everybody is to blame it transcends administration. It transcends party.
beat difficult hard hours quality team worked
Not to make any excuses, but after we worked so hard to beat Brown, it's very difficult to come back and play a team of the quality of Connecticut 36 to 40 hours later.
flooding less saying totally
I'm not saying it wouldn't still be flooded, but I do feel that if it had been totally funded, there would be less flooding than you have.
good time together
It's disappointing but we've put together what we think is a good schedule. Now it's time to go play.
created work
It's created a lot of work that no one was anticipating.
boxes corner few office orders post stop
When I started, I was in a little corner of a 400-square-foot office and I would stop at 3pm and go down to the Post Office with boxes for the few orders I had,
chances game ourselves regular time
We're disappointed. You'd have to say in the end we've only ourselves to blame. We had enough chances to put the game away in regular time and we didn't.
experience high none papers public school various
We all had various experience in our high school papers or with writing or in public relations, but none of us had ever started something like this from scratch.
book busy call involved phone three trunk weeks
Even making a phone call involved booking it ahead. It was a trunk call and at busy times, such as Christmas, you had to book three weeks in advance.
agreed finally leave time value
At that time Dow did not value MBAs. When I told them, they were pretty disappointed. But they finally agreed to give me two years' leave of absence.
coming continuous feature larger number protection viable
Continuous protection should be a feature of any viable data-protection solution. A number of these startups out there either, frankly, will go away or be acquired, because that kind of functionality will be coming to a larger data-protection solution.