All Episodes
James Morley
James Morley, Point of Rental's SVP of Global Product Management, drops by the Front Porch to discuss...well, product management, overall. We learned about his philoso...
Joey Marks
Joseph (Joey) Marks drops by the Front Porch to talk about his path from paleontology to selling software. He explained the differences in working with strategic accou...
Evan Fort
Evan Fort, Point of Rental's SVP of Global Technology, drops by the Front Porch to talk about his career in technology, from starting in IT for a school district to bu...
Andy Clark
On this episode we talked to Andy Clark about his career, coming from construction to tube sales to car sales to software. We learned about the time he decided rodeo w...
Brian Dugger
Tier I Senior Windows Support Technician Brian Dugger steps onto the Porch to talk about his career in the service industry prior to getting to Point of Rental, as wel...
Scott Plomer
Scott Plomer, Point of Rental's web developer, started his career with interests in firefighting and engineering. He ditched it all to pursue creative passions, move t...
Melanie Kaye
Melanie Kaye is a Project Coordinator in Point of Rental's UK office, working with renters and hirers to get them set up and happy with their new software. We learned ...
Adam Seyedmortaza
Adam Seyedmortaza is one of Point of Rental's Software Engineer Team Leads and has been a Pointer for about six years now. He joins us on the Front Porch to chat about...
Jack Baker
Jack Baker is one of Point of Rental's new Strategic SDRs. He's taken a different path to Point of Rental - from scooter riding to serving - and applied lessons learne...
Rob Warwick
UK Software Support Manager Rob Warwick sits down on the PORch to talk about how he got into software support, lessons that translate from the soccer pitch to the work...
Joan McKinlay
Joan McKinlay joins The Front Porch fresh off her trip to Slovakia as part of Plant & Hire Aid Alliance's convoy to bring supplies to Ukrainian refugees there. While w...
#PORIC22 Industry Panel
In a special edition of The Front Porch, we recorded our Industry Panel session at the 2022 International Conference. Panelists include, in order of appearance:John Hi...
Jeremy Mackey
Jeremy Mackey grew up wanting to be a Power Ranger and now he's delivering lessons and knowledge to Point of Rental users...so, pretty close! We got his backstory, lea...
Bridget Otten, American Rental Association
The ARA's Bridget Otten joined us on the Front Porch this month! We talked about her career in event organizing, YP events, played a game of "Otten or Not In", and lea...
Sara Wilhite
We talked to our HR and Payroll Manager Sara Wilhite to learn more about what HR is really all about and it pretty much turned into a "tell us good stories about peopl...
Samantha Ruttura, Our Rental Pumps
Samantha Ruttura and her family have been in the construction or construction-adjacent industries for 100+ years (OK, just her family has; she definitely isn't 100+ ye...
Brian Beaudry
Brian Beaudry is Point of Rental's NI Content Generator. You can learn what that means, about filling in as an emergency guest, and learn about his ArenaBowl champions...
Amy Mulligan, AJM Hire
We welcome our first Australian non-Pointer guest to The Front PORch! Amy Mulligan joins us from Western Australia - she and her husband founded AJM Hire in 2019 after...
Ross Stratman
We talked to Essentials Team Lead Ross Stratman about being a developer for many, many years, some of what he's done professionally, and how he went from wanting to be...
Ben Sinclair
Ben Sinclair heads up Point of Rental's Canadian operations, having moved all the way from Australia to do so. We talked to him about the transition between countries,...
Peter Maginnis, Makinex
Peter Maginnis's journey has taken him through California's wine industry, through Australia, running a rental store, and self-storage. Now he's helping make inefficie...
Robert Flach
As our Director of Software Development for Essentials (and eSign), Robert Flach is a busy man. But that doesn't mean he can't make time for drama - or comedy - by par...
Andrew Heesacker, Arvada Rent-Alls
If you learn just one thing about Andrew Heesacker and Arvada Rent-Alls by listening to this video, let it be how to pronounce his name. It seems like there's a pretty...
Paul Alleyne
Paul Alleyne started in the radio business as a teen and has made his way to become a Tier I Software Support Technician at Point of Rental. He taught us all about bei...
Frances Ellison, CE Rental
Frances Ellison is CE Rental's IT Business Development Director, but once upon a time she was one of Point of Rental's leading software experts. We talked about her ca...
Collin Pike
This month on The Front Porch, we talked to Collin Pike, the company's new Chief Architect of Cloud Engineering. We found out what on earth that means, about his param...
Caleb Yell
Caleb Yell is one of Point of Rental's boomerang employees, having started here with Rental Essentials. He left for an opportunity that was too good to pass up and wou...
Tim Dodd, Atlanta Party Rentals
Tim Dodd came to the Porch to talk starting from the bottom in the party rental industry, career planning, business advice, dealing directly with Chinese companies, an...