Mel's Blog

How do you want your legacy to remember what you did for others now and years to come?

What do you want to remember from 2020? How do you want your legacy to remember what you did for...

Seven Days of My Favorite Inspirational Quotes

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Mentoring 101: The Art and Ultimate Guide to Resume Writing

Change the Way You Think About Your Resume The number one obstacle that job seekers think they have is their...

MR Tech Approved & Recommended Tools & Sites

Inspired by a recent LinkedIn post, I decided to revisit my old haunts of sharing tools, enjoy! ⬇ MRTech.com circa...

Mentoring 101: Advice if your looking to break into a new field (with little or no experience)

Given the current turmoil in the job market, I wanted to make sure that the advice I had been sharing...

Mentoring 101: Learning

Whether hard or soft skills, if you are not learning you are losing out on expanding your mind and your...

Mentoring 101: Giving

To advance the mentoring series, I wanted to focus on one of the most underrated and unrecognized topics: Giving. There’s...

Mentoring 101: The Connector’s Advantage

This will the first in a new series of posts that I’m creating to help folks at all stages of...

2020 Giving Back Kicked Off

Need help with your career? I’ve officially kicked-off my 2020 efforts to give back. Please read and share the LinkedIn...

Inspiration and Meditation

My Top Books to Expand Your Mind and Other Interests (and why)

I decided to dust off some of the books that I found would be a great baseline for folks to read to get a good grounding for various topics. I'm looking for suggestions and ideas to expand both my technical but also my introspective views. Looking forward to specific suggestions and ideas.

Powering Growth and Innovation for the Unbanked via Augmented Analytics

Banks and finance houses across the globe have been looking to technology for advantages that can give them a competitive...

Getting inspired by your children

Beautiful moments in life, YES, yesterday was one such day for me. As you look at your children you know that...

How to organize just about anything

A little background From my very early career days of hitting the shelves of the King’s Daughters Main Library as a...

Poor Man’s Project or Task Organizer

Have you ever been at a job with little or no project management tools, antiquated systems, or restrictive access to...