1171. A Day in the Life: What's It Really Like to Be a Chief Operating Officer?

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

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🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Steve Orrin offers three decades of extraordinary success in a series of high-level roles at top-tier companies that include Intel Corporation, Sarvega, Watchfire Inc., Sanctum Inc., First Genetic Trust Inc., Lockstar Inc., and SynData Technologies Inc. He has recently had the honor of being nominated as a Fellow at the Tortora Brayda Institute for AI & Cybersecurity. The Tortora Brayda Institute for AI & Cybersecurity is an International Think Tank dedicated to tackling big challenges within cybersecurity and AI. It engages private and public sector thought leaders worldwide to reshape and develop collaboration and partnering practices to improve business and economies.

He has developed a reputation as an industry leader, leveraging a history of delivering results in Innovation, Intrapreneurship, and Entrepreneurship. He is a Tech-enabled business professional who has launched and scaled companies and brought innovative industry-leading products to market. As Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Senior PE for Intel Corporation, Steve orchestrates and executes customer engagements in the federal space, overseeing the development of federal solution architectures to address challenges in government enterprise, national security, and other federal areas of focus.

"My high school mathematics teacher, Mr. Miller, had a unique way of making mathematics look interesting and exciting. I thrived in math under him, took advanced placement calculus and other courses, which helped me in my later life and career much more than it did in college. My appetite for mathematics and the idea that you didn't have to rigidly stick to the textbooks, that math was much more than memorizing multiplication tables or cosigns, but that you could research and investigate the many other facets and the broader applications of math--what it was really about and how it permeates all dimensions of our world--was a powerful and positive influence on my life and career from that point forward."

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0:00.0	Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent, do what you love.
0:14.7	I'm your host, Don Hutchison.
0:16.9	Every Tuesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:27.1	On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular or interesting occupations or professions who shares an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do.
0:39.5	Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Steve Oren, and our topic, A Day in the Life,
0:45.6	what's it really like to be a chief technology officer? Welcome, Steve. Thank you. Happy to be here,
0:52.2	Don. Good. It is our pleasure. A few words about Steve.
0:56.3	Steve Oren offers three decades of extraordinary success in a series of high-level roles at top-tier
1:02.6	companies that include Intel Corporation, First Genetic Trust, Lockstar, and Send Data Technologies.
1:09.9	He's developed a reputation as an industry leader
1:12.9	leveraging a history of delivering results in innovation, entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurship.
1:19.2	He's a tech-enabled business professional who's launched and scaled companies and brought
1:23.2	innovative leading products to market. As chief technology officer and senior PE for Intel Corporation,
1:30.5	he orchestrates and executes customer engagements in the federal space, overseeing the
1:35.5	development of federal solution architectures to address challenges in government enterprise,
1:41.0	national security, and other federal areas of focus. He's dedicated himself in his
1:45.9	vision as a leader who engages in projects with an all-in attitude. Well, congratulations on an
1:52.3	amazing journey, Steve. Thank you. As we've discussed, everyone's life is about turning points or
1:58.9	passages. So take us into the backstory, if you would, of Steve Orrin, where it all began, family of origin, and tell us about the people and choices and changes that have gotten you where you are today.
2:09.1	Oh, absolutely.
2:10.2	So my family is originally from Texas, multiple generations on each side.
2:15.2	And that's where I was born.
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