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137. Master a Golden Work/Life Balance & Your RFPs with John Carter Gillespie

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Tech News, Technology, Business, Management, News

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

John Carter Gillespie is an IT Management professional with over 15 years of experience in the fields of information security, enterprise architecture, cloud infrastructure, systems administration, and project management. He strives to stay on the forefront of new technologies and constantly looks for ways to effectively execute within current budget means. Master a Golden Work/Life Balance & Your RFPs with John Carter Gillespie It’s an off-of-the-cuff episode today on Dissecting Popular IT Nerds, where host Phil Howard and his guest, John Carter Gillespie, talk how they surf between work/life balance and on the waves in general from their coast-centric locations. Take advice from a company manager who’s created 80% growth in the last two years in the operations sector. Establish the crucial trait that your IT customers are asking for and onboard personalities who will undoubtedly bring it to the table.

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0:00.0

We went from 325 employees to over 500 employees during COVID.

0:06.0

Had it been fun.

0:07.6

Yeah, we also grew in revenue from about 350 million to almost 700 million.

0:29.7

So, So everyone out there listening, we're doing this off the cuff podcast today.

0:32.4

This is my first time ever speaking with John.

0:36.7

So, John, thank you for taking time to speak with me here.

0:40.6

I have way too many computer screens up at the moment.

0:47.5

But just, why don't you just take a second, just introduce yourself and tell me what you do for a living.

0:49.2

Sure.

0:51.3

Yeah, thanks for having me on Phil as well.

0:53.6

My name is John Gillespie. I'm the director of IT here at Megacorp Logistics,

0:57.4

down a woman to North Carolina.

0:59.5

So I kind of run the IT department for our third-party logistics firm.

1:04.7

Which is cool.

1:06.2

I like, do you golf?

1:09.1

I do.

1:09.7

You have to golf if you live in North Carolina.

1:12.4

I have a feeling that you pretty much have to golf.

1:15.0

Our headquarters is down there, at least one of my partner company's headquarters is down there,

1:20.1

Converged Network Services Group, which we've merged with App Smart recently.

1:23.5

But regardless, every time I go down there, it's always putting competitions and

1:28.5

golf tournaments, and I'm like, it is sticky down here. But I like to surf, too, and I heard

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