References
References for my work and my character are available upon request. Out of courtesy, I do not post the addresses here where they can be harvested. However, if you are familiar with LinkedIn.com, you can view my endorsements there. Periodically, I will update them on this page for those without LinkedIn accounts.
Endorsements from Colleagues at WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
Jamie Gordon
Worked indirectly with Karen Toast as a Manager of Quality Assurance at WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
Karen is an excellent manager with superior leadership and team building skills. She is smart, energetic, and passionate. I'm very pleased to have had the experience of working with her. She is simply top-notch.
Sigmund Fidyke
Worked with Karen Toast as a Product Manager at WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
Karen is an amazing team builder/leader and business person who earns respect and loyalty from her co-workers. Combining intelligence, competence and ethics with a solid understanding of what makes a company successful and profitable, she would be a asset to any company. I would definitely hire, work for, or work with her again in any capacity.
Kirk Rehn
Worked with Karen Toast as a Customer Care Representative at WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
An amazing, energetic, spirited and supportive manager. Karen Toast provides high quality and constructive feedback to better her employees, and expects the same from her staff. Karen Toast is the best of the bunch, and I am proud and honored to have worked with her.
Julie Cornell
Worked with Karen Toast as a Program Manager at WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
Karen is one of those rare individuals who can succeed at nearly every endeavor. She is a natural leader and onhe of the most respected (by her employees) manager I have ever run across. Her talent for understanding, organizing and teaching complex topics is exceptional. I would work with her again in a second.
Endorsements from Colleagues at KTC Consulting
Keet Leibowitz
Reported to Karen Toast as a Technical Writer at KTC Consulting
Working for KTC Consulting was my first real job out of college 10 years ago. Karen Toast was my employer as well as my mentor and I credit her influence as the driving factor in the early (and continued) success of my career. I am now writing for and training professionals among various Fortune 500 companies across 3 continents and still use her principles and guidelines.
