Lessons from my book: Chapter 19 – Testing the Limits

In chapter 19 of my book Get Back Up  I am now the Test Manager of Microsoft Publisher. In six short years I’ve progressed from configuring hardware in a lab to testing product software, then I became a test lead and now I was a test manager. Not bad for a guy without a college [...]

2020-06-26T14:46:03-07:00June 26th, 2020|Blog|Comments Off on Lessons from my book: Chapter 19 – Testing the Limits

Lessons from my book: Chapter 18 – The Word is Change

In chapter 18 of my book Get Back Up  Suzie and I have left San Jose for Redmond, Washington, where I would be starting a new role as a test lead on Word, Microsoft’s word processing product. I had done all I could in the PowerPoint group to move up in the organization, but since [...]

2020-02-21T16:32:50-08:00February 21st, 2020|Blog|Comments Off on Lessons from my book: Chapter 18 – The Word is Change

Lessons from my book: Chapter 17 – Presenting Myself

In chapter 17 of my book Get Back Up  I am now working at Microsoft. I started about as low in the company as I could, working in their test lab, where one of my jobs was to keep the lab clean. As I’ve said before, it doesn’t matter where you start as long as [...]

2019-12-23T10:41:44-08:00December 23rd, 2019|Blog|Comments Off on Lessons from my book: Chapter 17 – Presenting Myself

Lessons from my book: Chapter 16 – Microsoft’s Arrogance Versus Mine

In chapter 16 of my book Get Back Up  I find myself unemployed again, but this time with two children. I couldn’t afford to screw around and had to find a job fast. During my last couple of weeks at Ashton-Tate I had already started sending out my résumé and I already had a couple [...]

2019-10-18T13:58:00-07:00October 18th, 2019|Blog|Comments Off on Lessons from my book: Chapter 16 – Microsoft’s Arrogance Versus Mine

Lessons from my book: Chapter 7 – Carving Out a Death

We’re now in the seventh chapter of my book, Get Back Up, I could no longer work in the fast food industry due to the injuries I 'd suffered in a car accident, and so I was about to begin a new career as a life insurance salesman. I would learn that sales can be a [...]

2018-07-14T11:34:44-07:00July 14th, 2018|Blog|Comments Off on Lessons from my book: Chapter 7 – Carving Out a Death

You Have Prostate Cancer. Now What?

I’m still not over the shock of hearing I have prostate cancer. My urologist told me I had three options: watchful waiting or active surveillance, radiation, or surgery. I realized I had to educate myself. The surgery is something they call a radical prostatectomy. The watchful waiting was my preferred option, but the urologist reminded me [...]

2018-07-08T11:11:15-07:00July 8th, 2018|Author News|Comments Off on You Have Prostate Cancer. Now What?

Lessons from my book: Chapter 6 – Quality Over Speed

In the sixth chapter of my book Get Back Up, I have been released from the army with a service-connected disability. Thanks to the disabled veterans bill I’d be able to pay for college, but because it would be a few months until the next quarter began, I decided to get a job. I ended up working [...]

2018-06-21T10:35:08-07:00June 21st, 2018|Blog|Comments Off on Lessons from my book: Chapter 6 – Quality Over Speed

How A College Dropout From The Fast Food Industry Rose To Management At A Leading Tech Company

Get Back Up: From The Streets To The Microsoft Suites, is the career autobiography of George Santino, co-written by MJ Beaufrand, and spanning Santino’s decades-long career journey from his difficult childhood through making partner at Microsoft. Santino documents his ups and downs in careful detail, including how he talked his way into his first tech [...]

2017-10-02T14:26:29-07:00October 2nd, 2017|Author News|Comments Off on How A College Dropout From The Fast Food Industry Rose To Management At A Leading Tech Company

How to Deal with An Underperforming Employee

If you’re in a management role at your company, hiring and terminating employees is an integral part of the job. Clearly one of these tasks is more enjoyable than the other, but as a manager, dealing with underperforming employees is very likely a problem you’ve had to face. An employee who was doing a good [...]

2018-05-23T14:24:59-07:00September 5th, 2017|Author News|Comments Off on How to Deal with An Underperforming Employee

A Remarkable Rags to Riches Story

How often do you interrupt yourself? We share how to get far more done by interrupting yourself a lot less. And could you easily be replaced?  Entrepreneur and author Seth Godin explains how to make yourself indispensable and “fireproof”. Then, the rags to riches story of George A. Santino (http://amzn.to/2v3XMF7) who rose from the projects [...]

2017-08-23T12:34:54-07:00August 23rd, 2017|Author News|Comments Off on A Remarkable Rags to Riches Story
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