Author Archives: SCCMentor

Microsoft’s Holly Lehman joins Just a Couple of Jerks for the 14th episode. We chat about the juggling process of bringing up and family and working from home during the COVID lockdown. Not an easy task. She tells us about how great Microsoft was with their employees when lockdown was instigated. Holly chats to usContinue reading “Episode #14 – Holly Lehman”

Jan Ketil Skanke joins the Just Jerks podcast this week. Jan talks about his IT career and how he’s helped set up the successful Cloudw.ay company in Norway. We discuss getting the correct Teams headset for your conference calls and how to pronounce his last name. We chat about getting jetting around the world forContinue reading “Episode #13 – Jan Ketil Skanke”

Panu is one of the longest serving Enterprise Mobility MVPs. We chat about his homeland, Finland. I learn a little about a country I know hardly anything about. Inevitably, discussions turn to the Finish winter and snow and how Panu gets from home to office. We learn about where Panu’s last name comes from and,Continue reading “Episode #12 – Panu Saukko”

Aaron Czechowski has been working with the MEM product group for a while now, but it wasn’t always that way. We chat about how he and his family made the move across America to settle down in the Redmond area, making a move he didn’t think was available to him, as an option, at thatContinue reading “Episode #11 – Aaron Czechowski”

Chris Roberts works for a company which manages over 100k devices. That’s some pretty mean feat and he joins the podcast this week to talk about how manages this. Chris has a real passion for what he does and this comes through in abundance in this episode. We chat about his real passions, Liverpool FC,Continue reading “Episode #10 – Chris Roberts”

Les Pounder, legend of the Raspberry Pi community, joins the JaCoJ podcast this week. Les has been involved with Raspberry Pi since 2013 and he has a real passion for them We chat about the achievement of making even the simple things work and how being put under the spot can help you learn more.Continue reading “Episode #9 – Les Pounder”

This week it’s Kim Oppalfens, the quiet shy guy who joins the podcast. Kim has been a MVP for a long time and we chat about how he got on board the programme We talk about how he takes his eldest child to see his favourite football team, KAA Gent, throwing a 50 mile eachContinue reading “Episode #8 – Kim Oppalfens”

This week’s episode features 2Pint co-founder, Phil Wilcock. Phil has been in the IT game for quite a while now, but he’s dabbled with other interests along the way. We chatted about his time learning to become a sound engineer and how he gave it a go as a bassist, taking moody pictures and livingContinue reading “Episode #7 – Phil Wilcock”

Maurice Daly joins the podcast for this episode. Maurice has been a Enterprise Mobility MVP since 2017, and he talks about meeting the ‘rockstars’ of the community for the first time in the MVP summit. We chat about how he got his infamous cockney accent and how he was amazed at the software title thatContinue reading “Episode #6 – Maurice Daly”

Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi, joins the Just a Couple of Jerks podcast this week. Sam takes us through the humble beginnings of creating the application for the Raspberry Pi and how he was thrown in at the deep end by being given three months to produce something that could work as an application.Continue reading “Episode #5 – Sam Aaron”