Podcast: Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

33. UnSelfish IT Living in The Ultimate Cost Center

On this Episode Shawn Granger and Phil Howard discuss:
Why Data Matters
Unselfishly Stuck in a Cost Center
Line Itemizing IT
Changing the Culture of “Let’s Dip into the IT budget.”
Fixing Broken Process 
RFPs are Dumb
Coyote Fear Mongering GIS apps
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32. From Getting Shot at in Iraq & Afghanistan to 1.5 Million in Ransomware

Joshua Stroud and Phil Howard discuss… the journey from 1 tour in Iraq to 1 tour in Afghanistan and getting shot at to helpdesk technician, consultant, and to IT Leadership.
Is your businesses that will have to close down in 6 months if you experience …

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31. Marine Deploys Cisco Call Manager in 1999

John Larsen, manager of Enterprise Infrastructure for CHS and Phil Howard, managing partner CNSG discuss:
Getting thrown a Cisco Call manager and told to deploy it in 1999
Managing internet connectivity on Tugboats
IT Farming for Farmers 
What a Co-Op is…

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30. CISO… The Job You Can Only Fail At

Christophe Foulon (CISSP) and Phil Howard (Managing Partner CNSG) discuss:
Booting from DOS
Security Burnout by Choice
The only job that you can only fail at
Average Lifespan of a CISO
Burnout Solutions
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29. Spear-Tipping Your Career by Making an Impact | CTO Dipul Patel

Phil Howard and Dipul “Dip” Patel discuss:
Disabling Missiles and Multiple Kill Vehicles with Nuclear Warheads on Ballistic Trajectories.
Technology Minded People Doing Business.
How to find and know good people with talent.
The Different between making …

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28. IBM why are you building servers that last long, don’t break, and are harder to hack?

Phil Howard and Paul Olson discuss:
IBM stuff (like AS400s) never breaking.
Security surrounding your IMBi services.
Servers that don’t go down
Open Source software development
Something amazing…. “BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY”
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27. IT in Different Languages

Jon Wadsworth & Phil Howard discuss IT around the world.
– IT enablement
– IT Dreaming
– What an awesome world could look like before accounting gets involved.
– Speaking IT in China without knowing any Chinese.
– Rolling out Active Directory around the …

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26. From No Help Desk and Support By Favoritism to Accountability

Brian Martinez & Phil Howard discuss the unbelievable fact that many businesses still do not have a standardized process and IT Help Desk.     
– Going from no structure to service desk/help desk
– Eliminating 80% of the tickets and ongoing busy work

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25. Culture Eats Technology for Breakfast with a side of SD WAN

Doug Edmunds, Jason Gintert, & Phil Howard discuss a recent SD-WAN deployment and how it affected large document sharing, VPNs, and expensive point to point circuits.  Also on this episode…
The #1 IT trait that makes this IT leader a success
Commodore …

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24. Microsoft Doesn’t Care About Providing You Layers Of Failure

Are you ready to NOT SCREW UP your Microsoft Teams Voice Integration?
What are “Native” Integrations
Why are they Better… Cheeper… Easier…
Implementation Best Practices
The Easiest Way to Not Kill Yourself, Your Career, and Work/Life Balance
The La…

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