Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

* Stefan Waldvogel “The German Shepherd of Security” * 5 years in the Military * Dangerous outdated systems * Looking back & realizing what you did wrong * American style is certifications * Unique cyber security skillsets * You can learn too, but why? * Free stuff

Jonathan Nelson, Global Solutions Engineer at Vonage, and Phil Howard discuss: * The worst assumption an IT Director can make * The 8 Companies of Vonage * The most flexible platform stack * Salesforce – Dynamics – Service Now * What a failed install looks like * Impacting the people you serve * From round table to adoption

Russian Electrical Engineer and IT genius, Andrey Stryukov, teaches us how to stop drinking from the firehose, so we can be lazier. * IT cannot exist in a separate department * Some helpful mind exercises * Force yourself to stop and ask, “where do I spend the majority of my time?” * Calculating total cost of ownership * A successful strategy for convincing Executive Management 80-90% of the time. * Supply Chain Robots * This episodes “Stupid Thing”

* Jeff Richardson and I talk about the #2 thing you need to get your dream job. * How to manage a bunch of kids at scale * Cracked bleeding skulls, cancer, & covid * Why the public cloud is safer. * 99.99999% of IT Directors think they’re the smartest people in the company * Stupid things, gift baskets, and don’t challenge someone’s Peloton ranking. * If you have this one thing, nothing can replace it. * Why the podcast Reply-All fell apart, Bon Appétit, email forgiveness

* “If you view infrastructure as a commodity then you should view your business as a commodity.” * From Singapore to China to Pandemic killing Pedantic IT mindsets * As a business, “Are you going to keep driving is the same lane?” * Ex-Ex-Pat Bill Genovese teaches rocket ship trajectory * How can technology leaders see things faster? * How to grow the business in 6 months. * What’s the business strategy & development goals? * Who are your target customers? * How are you meeting demands? * How are you tying things together? * Open standards