Melbourne Rockstar's

About Melbourne Rockstar's

A podcast focused on the achievements. We interview successful people to understand mantra of their success and how technology has helped them in their accomplishments.

Publisher

Sam

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Aug 2020

Latest episode

12 Jan 2021

Latest episodes

7 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Jan 2021

   Journey from a CIO to establish own company With Alan Kramer

   In this episode, Baljeet is joined by Alan Kramer. Alan's international experience brought him to Australia where he is both a founding partner and leads the ICT Services at DGS Global. Alan was previously CIO for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Director at the Gartner Group in Washington DC. At PwC, Alan created the first unified IT strategy for PwC’s Global Tax business and delivered a portfolio of global business processes and software solutions across PwC’s 150 geographies and is an expert is global business transformation programs and technology, delivering solutions in over 150 countries to over 40,000 users. At Gartner, Alan specialised in ERP, Financial, and Supply Chain consulting solutions. Alan Kramer has specialties in Information Technology Strategy, Enterprise IT Program Rescue, Business Transformation & Change Management, Business Process Reengineering, BPO and Shared Services, Interim/CIOaaS, Not for Profit organizations. Check the podcast to know more about Alan Kramer. [0:00]- Introduction to the guest [0:46]- Guest Experience in the corporate world [2:04]- CIO role and its importance 2:54]- Entrepreneur journey and motivation to open own company [6:16]- What are your efforts to make your business successful? 8:50]- Directions to grow our business 10:30]- Hiring senior roles and senior program managers, senior client relationship managers 13:28]- How to separate the technological problems from the people? 17:24]- 20 of 80% of your income or your business will come from 20% of your good customers 19:44]- Successes is doing a job that you enjoy 20:06]- Financial system upgrade QUOTES:- "I still seek out people who are these days younger and wiser than I am, but it doesn't really matter what their age is. But who can cause me to really think about to change my paradigm and not get, not just thinking about things in the same way all the time" Connect with Baljeet: Cloud Solution IT (Australia) E:Baljeet.Singh@cloudsolutionit.com.au (mailto:Baljeet.Singh@cloudsolutionit.com.au) W:www.cloudsolutionit.com.au (http://www.cloudsolutionit.com.au/) Connect with Alan Kramer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanckramer/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanckramer/)

2. 

   1 Nov 2020

   Learn From Your Mistakes and Rise Again With Robin Sands

   In this episode, Baljeet is joined by Robin Sands. Robin has 17 years’ B2B Sales and Marketing experience with medium and large global software companies. He is a result ­ focused Senior Executive who combines entrepreneurial vision with strong business acumen and well­honed global marketing skills. With his skills and experience, Robin is well-positioned to be responsible for the client acquisition activities of the business, including Sales and Marketing plans as well as the operational management of Link4 Australia. Check the podcast to know more about Robin's Entrepreneurial journey. [00:30]: Outline of Robin's career [01:06]: What made him turn into an entrepreneur? [04:33]: What are the best resources that have helped him? [06:48]: Recommending books for our audience. [08:31]: Things to know before the beginning of your career. [09:42]: What is the definition of success? [11:27]: What did he learn from failure? [13:54]: Giving advice to someone for starting a similar career. [15:18]: Talking about an important person and happiest moment in his life. QUOTES: "You learn from your mistakes and you learn more from other's mistakes." Connect with Baljeet: Cloud Solution IT (Australia) E:Baljeet.Singh@cloudsolutionit.com.au (mailto:Baljeet.Singh@cloudsolutionit.com.au) W:www.cloudsolutionit.com.au (http://www.cloudsolutionit.com.au/) Connect with Robin Sands LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinsands2/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinsands2/) Link4 Cloud LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/link-4/ (https://www.linkedin.com/company/link-4/) Website: https://link4.co/au/ (https://link4.co/au/) Resources & Links mention in the episode: PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/ (https://www.paypal.com/) Audible: https://www.audible.com.au/

3. 

   17 Oct 2020

   Motivating Yourself to Achieve Goals With Faizul Zakaria

   In this episode, Baljeet is joined by Faizul Zakaria. Faizul is a Technology Addict and director of ICT at Haileybury. He has specialties in Server Architecture, Disaster Recovery planning, Designing Systems Infrastructure, PCI, Backup and Recovery, Systems Security, Virtual Infrastructure. Have you guys ever wondered how we can enjoy our workloads and can do things in a creative way? Faizul is sharing with you all about his experience in business and entrepreneurship. Check out our podcast to know more about personal success stories. [0:00]- Introduction to guest [1:54]- What do you mean by a technician? [5:31]- Explanation about the experience in business and entrepreneurship [9:17]- What are the formulas to be a successful person? [12:10]- Motivating yourself to achieve goals [16:42]- What was your biggest failure and what, what did you learn from it? [19:47]- How would you describe your perfect day? QUOTES:” Success usually comes to those who are too busy for finding it” "Success is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration" Resources & Links mention in the episode: Haileybury: https://www.haileybury.com.au/ Audible: https://www.audible.com.au/ Microsoft Certifications: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/ Connect with Baljeet: Cloud Solution IT (Australia) E:Baljeet.Singh@cloudsolutionit.com.au (mailto:Baljeet.Singh@cloudsolutionit.com.au) W:www.cloudsolutionit.com.au (http://www.cloudsolutionit.com.au/)

4. 

   1 Oct 2020

   How to Start a Successful Startup With Christian Martinez

   In this episode, Our host Baljeet interviewing Christian Martinez. Christian Martinez is originally from Mexico and after working for 2 years in Mexico and Switzerland he decided to come to Australia in 2015 to advance his career, pursue a Master of Finance at Monash Business School and be part of the Australian startup ecosystem. This gave him the push needed to start his own startup called The Financial Fox that helps students and recent graduates to navigate the careers ecosystem and get their first professional opportunity in Australia. Check out our podcast to know more about achievement and technology. [0:00]- Introduction to guest [1:43]- What is a multinational company? [2:47]: How one can decide to become an entrepreneur [07:17]: Talking about machine learning [12:52]: Why update with all of the new technologies is important [4:57]- Defining entrepreneurship. [9:32]- Why a positive mindset is important? [15:08]- Anyone formula to get success in career [20:53]- How do you maintain success? [25:54]- What do you want with clarity? QUOTES: "Only the paranoid survive." Resources & link mentioned in the episode: VBA: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/library-reference/concepts/getting-started-with-vba-in-office (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/library-reference/concepts/getting-started-with-vba-in-office) Audible: https://www.audible.com.au/?ipRedirectOverride=true (https://www.audible.com.au/?ipRedirectOverride=true) Mysql: https://www.mysql.com/ (https://www.mysql.com/) Python Programming: https://www.python.org/ (https://www.python.org/) Connect with Baljeet: Cloud Solution IT (Australia) E:Baljeet.Singh@cloudsolutionit.com.au (mailto:Baljeet.Singh@cloudsolutionit.com.au) W:www.cloudsolutionit.com.au (http://www.cloudsolutionit.com.au/) Connect with Christian Martin https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmartinezthefinancialfox/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmartinezthefinancialfox/)

5. 

   20 Sept 2020

   Journey from a software developer to a successful Entrepreneur With Ray Keefe

   In this episode, Ray Caffee the founder of a growing electronic design in an embedded software development company called and diverse Private Limited shares his journey of business and how his career really started. Besides, he talks about how executive summaries can help everyone to grow in life. Check out this episode for insights that you can apply in your life. [0:17]: Introduction to the Guest. [0:49]: Outline of Ray’s careers and university experience. [6:42]: Talking about how Bill Gates founded the first software development company. [8:32]: How one can make the decision to become an entrepreneur. [10:02]: Things one should know Before starting a career. [14:16]: Best book recommendation to the audience. [20:41]: Explaining about executive summaries. [24:31]: Why a positive mindset is important. [26:05]: How success can be defined. [29:55]: Why understanding and fixing the problem is essential. [34:40]: How the evolution of technology has made it easy to set up IT services. Quotes: “When you know why and what you're studying for, then you can really learn and you pour yourself into it.” “You need a really good reason for why you're doing what you're doing a really good purpose for it.” “Be good enough for yourself to play your part and a good enough driving reason to make it happen.” “Get yourself in good forums with people around you that you can learn from, you can aspire to be like and you will lift.” Connect with Baljeet: Cloud Solution IT (Australia) E:Baljeet.Singh@cloudsolutionit.com.au (mailto:Baljeet.Singh@cloudsolutionit.com.au) W:www.cloudsolutionit.com.au (http://www.cloudsolutionit.com.au/)

6. 

   6 Sept 2020

   Don't let perfect enemy of good

   In this episode, Baljeet is interviewing Harsh who came from a very humble background to running a very successful business. He's a founder of a growing marketing company. Check out this episode to understand personal success stories. [0:43] Introduction to the guest (Harsh) [6:45] How he establishes the ability to not have to own something to enjoy it. [6:56] Working with a couple of companies in the space of timeshare models for different expensive items. [8:49] Found a lot of software providers that purely deliver the software. [9:13] How someone feels like the role of the CEO in the company. [10:42] Best employees should be hired in the company to run well. [11:45] Try something new that attracts new people towards your business. [12:30] Gather all the real feedbacks and start improving the pain point. [12:52] What simplicity really means? why is it important? [15:26] Utilize the money in a proper way. [16:03] Quality matters than quantity. [16:37] Structure out what is making your business go in a bad way. [17:59] Sheer hard work and sacrifice make success. [19:18] Start making the greatest product ever. [20:21] Explaining about Microsoft. [21:17] Defining technology and its importance [22:18] Have good finance. [23:35] Leadership is what matters more in today’s world. [25:12] Positive mindset is important. [26:18 ]Failure makes you learn many things. [28:09] 30-40 will be the best age to start your business. [29:10 ]Don't expect instant results if you want to succeed in anything QUOTES: "Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning." Connect with Baljeet: Cloud Solution IT (Australia) E:Baljeet.Singh@cloudsolutionit.com.au (mailto:Baljeet.Singh@cloudsolutionit.com.au) W:www.cloudsolutionit.com.au (http://www.cloudsolutionit.com.au/)

7. 

   2 Aug 2020

   Episode 001: Introduction

   This podcast is about personal success stories from successful entrepreneurs. The main goal of this podcast is to understand the journey of achievement and technology as well as to know the difference between success and failure. Besides, it also explains how learning from successful people can benefit us in our life. Baljeet Singh is an IT consultant and Microsoft Azure cloud architect who have 12 years experience in IT and designed lots of solution for some biggest corporate in education and finance.

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