Why does Jeff Bogdan’s status on LinkedIn say ‘#OpenToWork’? Well, Bogdan who was the director of learning and development (L&D) at Microsoft, has been rendered jobless after spending three decades of his life working for the firm.
According to his LinkedIn post, Bogdan’s termination happened because the human resources department “adopted the hub & spoke model for L&D” that he was pitching. In his own words, “Sadly, when my division already had their L&D team in place, there wasn’t a seat at the table for me.”
Bogdan is clearly not ready to retire yet as he feels “There is still so much that I want to contribute. So now begins the journey of finding my second career.”
He spent 30 years in the area of product development before switching to people development. He had joined Microsoft as software design engineer in 1991. By 2000, he had become architect-WPF/XAML.
In 2006, he was elevated to software development lead-Zune. From 2009 to 2014 he served as principal software development manager-Windows Phone. 2014 to 2018 he served as partner software development lead-Windows.
The next almost four years were spent as partner software development manager-UWP XAML.
It was only 2021 that he took on the role of director of learning and development, Microsoft Windows after three decades of product development.
Now seeking roles as software engineering consultant, learning and development consultant, director of learning and development, career coach, or mentor, Bogdan holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Virginia Tech.
