Dealing with Layoffs

1 min readEvent: April 4, 2023

About the Speaker

Daniel Pelfrey

Senior Network Engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Daniel Pelfrey is a Senior Network Engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Supercomputing Division. Daniel's Information Technology career began at an Internet startup company in 1995. He was there from customer number 0, and all the way up to 75,000, and from location #1 to over 35+ locations in three states. This eventually led to a nationwide ISP, and ultimately to ORNL where he is on the network team that takes care of the supercomputing network. Daniel's first round of formal educational experience was in electrical and computing engineering, and he has a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems at Strayer University. His hobbies include PC gaming-especially the game Factorio, retro gaming, electronics, science, anything space related and programming.

Presentation Resources

We hear about layoffs almost daily in the news feeds. This presentation is tips and tricks on how to avoid them, how to be better prepared in dealing with survivors guilt, and being prepared when you forced to change jobs. Murphy's law- if you have a plan, you won't need it.