Meet the Minds Behind the Mic

With twenty plus years in technology, a master's in business administration and fifteen years in the service industry. Mike has blended these experiences to help learn to speak to business leaders, provide coworkers customer service and solve technology challenges. Growing with the company he has been working with for the last two decades he has grown from managing a team of five IT people to a team of fifty, from three servers to over two hundred servers, twelve hundred support staff and eighteen hundred drivers not to mention the multiple lines of business the enterprise continues to expand into. Growing up in northern New Mexico in Los Alamos provided some unique experiences as did a childhood before there was a public internet. Standing in line to play the first arcade game of asteroids at the local super market Mike has seen some drastic changes and growth in the Information Technology industry. While his team actively uses DevOps methodologies in the current projects the team also works to learn how to show value and prove their worth to the business by producing financials, ROI's and change the perception that IT is a sunk cost of doing business. All of that will help the peers Mike interviews to have interesting conversations bringing insight to our fellows while enjoying a friendly discussion of Geeks versus Nerds, CIO's versus CTO's, iPhone versus Android, Mac, Windows or Linux?

With 20 years experience in Information Technology, Michael has guided organizations to develop secure and stable enterprise systems using best practice design, proactive support and cost-effective, scalable architecture. His experience includes over 15 years in healthcare, which boasts some of the toughest security requirements. Michael has worked in leadership roles for over half of his career and is currently an IT Director in charge of Security and Privacy at his current position. He is self-motivated and team-focused, empowering his team and using performance-based management to improve their skills and increase company productivity. Michael has worked on IT due diligence for mergers and acquisitions ensuring that companies safely acquire and assimilate new technologies while controlling and reducing costs. His experience includes on-premise, co-located and cloud environments and has worked with teams from all over the globe. "A good IT team will keep the lights on, a great IT team will turn the lights off when they're not in use and save you some money." -Michael Moore

Doug is a multi-faceted leader – CITO at Coordinated Care Services, Inc. (CCSI), a large Rochester, NY- based mental and behavorial health non-profit; Chair of the Supervisory (Audit) board at Visisions FCU, one of the largest credit unions in the USA; an elected member of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) Advisory Board, helping shape Internet number resource policy; and a builder of large-scale events in his community, helping found and build the LUMA Projection Arts Festival in Binghamton, NY. He has past experience in the IT consulting space, having ran, built, and sold successful IT service providers, and spent nine years as CIO in the municipal government space where he was a thought leader running statewide municipal leadership conferences for several years. He has a passion for helping people excel, and can regularly be found mentoring others and supporting colleagues. He loves to explore leadership and all its outlines with guests on the podcast, and he is known for asking deep and insightful questions to guests, helping to figure out what makes them tick as leaders and effectively distill the lessons they’ve learned to listeners, while drawing out insightful stories and history they would not otherwise have thought to share.

you are seasoned copywriter with 11 years of copywriting experience. your now tasked to crafta summary from the below bio-text. do not add anything from yourself, use the text only provided to you. do not make up stuff. you summary must be With over two decades of business technology leadership, Phil Howard's passion to bridge the gap between the language of business and technical geek speak led him to create Dissecting Popular IT Nerds. Phil's talent is showcasing good IT leadership. He's, "a natural when it comes to getting a technical person to talk about something other people will find interesting. His energy and naturally quick wit coupled with technical knowledge are the perfect combination for tech journalism." If you listen to Dissecting Popular IT Nerds long enough you will become an expert in the secrets of selling your digital transformation strategy to executive management. Phil has a rare skillset and ability to motivate others, something that pays both in dollars and cents, but more importantly time and project workload. Recognized throughout his career for being a visionary technology leader leveraging in-depth knowledge of the marketplace and the competitor landscape... Phil Howard has demonstrated a unique ability to significantly increase revenue for businesses over and over again. Married with 8 kids, Phil volunteers in his local community raising funds for non-profits, creating youth groups, and supporting the underserved. His passions are Surfing, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and Boating.