Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

What Are You Doing in Security?

* Stefan Waldvogel “The German Shepherd of Security” * 5 years in the Military * Dangerous outdated systems * Looking back & realizing what you did wrong * American style is certifications * Unique cyber security skillsets * You can learn too, but why?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

The Bleeding Edge Death of the PSTN

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

How to Prove Technology Empowers

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”

How to Not Get Chopped and Find the Best IT Job in the World

* 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

Rocket Ship IT Growth

* “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