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141. The Business Side of IT with Phil Volltrauer​

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Tech News, Technology, Business, Management, News

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🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Phil Volltrauer …is a CTO & CIO. He is an experienced IT leader with a demonstrated history of working in a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, energy, life safety, and consulting. Phill graduated from the New Jersey Institute of Technology with a BSME in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in Management of Technology. The Business Side of IT with Phil Volltrauer Phil Volltrauer who is a CTO & CIO. He is an experienced IT leader with a demonstrated history of working in a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, energy, life safety, and consulting. Phill graduated from the New Jersey Institute of Technology with a BSME in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in Management of Technology. Listen in to the show to hear Phil discuss how he went from mechanical engineering to IT and ended up climbing the ladder of management. We also talk about money management and how it can help you in both your job and your personal life.

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0:00.0

Welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds.

0:13.6

Today, we're talking with Phil.

0:17.7

And Phil, even though I asked you just literally two seconds ago how to pronounce your name, I'm probably going to screw it up again yet.

0:24.8

But Volchor? Volchre.

0:26.9

Voltrower, yeah. Voltrower. Voltrower. See, I did. Screwed it up again. But two fills.

0:33.1

This is actually, no, this might be the second time in the history of dissecting popular IT nerds i did

0:39.0

have another fill on before but welcome to the show chief information officer and you're in oil

0:48.0

is that correct uh oil and gas yeah oil and gas you know we don't say those are the same things over there, do we?

0:56.1

No, no, no.

0:57.2

It's actually liquefied natural gas, but...

1:00.7

Ah, yes, yes, yes.

1:02.4

So let's just start off with how long you've been in IT.

1:08.0

What was your first computer?

1:10.5

Yeah. You know, interestingly, I got into IT. I started my career as a mechanical engineer.

1:16.6

And my college roommate who works for Amazon told me I could probably walk circles around some of the folks where he was working.

1:22.7

So he convinced me to jump ship from mechanical engineer into IT and call it like 97 or so.

1:30.7

Okay.

1:31.5

Why were you able to, well, 97, how much technology did we have back then?

1:37.6

Just paint a picture.

1:38.7

Let's just paint a picture.

1:39.5

It was coming out.

1:40.9

Yeah.

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