Meet Richard Panman: Values Champion

Last year, I wrote about our Values Champions program: a peer-nominated, peer-selected program designed to celebrate employees who holistically live up to Sonatype’s Core Values.

Today, I am excited to share one of our winners’ stories with you. Watch Richard Panman’s reveal video below:

Richard was named a Values Champion as a new hire, having been with the company 4 months at the time of his nomination. We discussed his experience at Sonatype thus far, digging into his experience with the Values Champion program and how he integrates the core values into his day to day at Sonatype. It was interesting to learn how he views the values in his nomination differently from his nominator. Check it out below!

Why don’t we start with a quick intro of your role at Sonatype and how long you’ve been with the company?

I’m Richard Panman and I am part of the Customer Success team. I’m a Customer Outcomes Manager which is a role that’s dedicated to making sure that customers realize value from the products that they buy from Sonatype. And I’ve just had my first year Sonatype anniversary.

What made you decide to come to Sonatype? 

I’d been with my previous company for 20 years and a message flashed up on LinkedIn at some point saying “Congratulations on 20 years!” At that point I thought that I could either stay where I was forever, or make a change. So I started looking around. In my previous company I’d been working in a role as a project manager while also deploying CI/CD pipelines and trying to automate processes.

And then very, very fortunately, I came across a post on LinkedIn while I was interviewing for other jobs. Sonatype was in a completely different field from where I (Read more...)