1. Someone wrote an email at work about me ....

2. ...but they didnt send it to me. 3. Someone else forwarded me the email. 4. This is what it said... I've had the opportunity and pleasure of working with Mike Foley for several years now in my role as JON Program Manager and Mike's corresponding role as JON QE lead. During that time Mike's continued initiative, creativity, diplomacy and leadership have been evident. 5. Some quick examples: -- Growing his team, and mentoring individual's growth within that team. He consistently gives his team members "starring roles" in cross-team efforts. He is diligient about giving credit where due. 6. -- Growing infrastructure/automation and sharing across teams. Mike oversaw the procurement and deployment of a bladecenter, architecting a Chef framework for multiplatform testing, and shared this out with other QE teams when opportunities arose. He's also been very involved with docker images for JON testing. 7. -- Excellent communication skills, as evidenced by his weekly PM call participation, QE team reports, issue-oriented emails, etc. I'd also refer to any of his Root Cause Analysis (RCA) meetings as text book examples of having meaningful, data-driven discussions in a manner that does not put anyone on the defensive. 8. --Cross-team encouragement: Working with Dev to institute feature completeness demonstrations. This has been a huge win for JON, and would be a great practice for other teams to emulate.- 9. -Cross-functional leadership: When I joined the team years ago, Mike was leading the bugzilla triage sessions, simply because it needed to be done. In recent times he has taken the initiative to schedule and lead release retrospectives. In my experience, neither of these are traditionally QE lead responsibilities. He did a great job on all of them. 10. --Cross product leaderhip: JON Plugins have historically been a very tough domain wrt cross-product testing and inter-release coodination. Along with GSS lead Larry O'Leary and productization engineer Simeon Pinder, Mike was instrumental in setting up training and enablement for the managed product teams. He has also encouraged plug-in testingautomation, and helped to enable it where possible. In particular, the JDG team has praised the support received from Mike's team on this front. 11. --His inherent sense of priority is spot on. The issues he highlights with the team do, in fact, turn out to be the most important issues at hand. He keeps them on the team radar in a diplomatic but persistent fashion. 12. -Ive been significantly impressed by Mike's productivity, vision, diplomacy and leadership! Regards, Mark