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144. How Eric DiTillio Transitioned Into IT From the US Army

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Tech News, Technology, Business, Management, News

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🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Eric DiTillio Joining me for this episode is Eric DiTillio, Head of IT at Stockmeier, as well as a US Army veteran. He has over 25 years of experience leading enterprise-wide transformation and operational improvement programs, leveraging industry-leading technology and business practices. Eric has a Diploma in Leadership/Management, is a Microsoft Certified IT Professional and Technology Specialist, and also holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science plus a master’s degree. How Eric DiTillio Transitioned Into IT From the US Army In this episode, Eric discusses his unlikely journey into IT and his experience in the US Army. We also talk about how his OCD affects his day to day and why he believes many IT people are afflicted with it. Our main topics of conversation are team building and security, and Eric shares what is most important in leadership.

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0:00.0

All right, welcome, everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds.

0:13.0

Today we have Eric Dutilia with us, head of information technology at Stockmere.

0:19.8

Is that correct?

0:21.3

Stockmire. Stockmire. Is that correct? Stockmeier.

0:22.2

Stockmire.

0:22.7

I'm just, you know, if I think I'm going to say it the right way, I say it the opposite.

0:26.3

I think that's like a psychological thing.

0:28.0

Yeah, always go with your first intuition.

0:31.1

What do you guys do over there, glue stuff, some spray things on?

0:34.9

We make urethane products, make products like,acts and stuff, you know, all sorts of stuff,

0:41.7

plastics and urethane.

0:43.4

Cool, cool.

0:44.3

Healthy to inhale or no?

0:48.0

Honestly, the working environment is really safe.

0:50.6

I've been over there.

0:51.5

They just tell me don't drink anything.

0:53.1

You know, don't drink any of the product. Super cool. Super cool. So what's the day, what's, what's the daily grind like over there?

1:03.5

Actually here, when I came on board, a lot of big things was, uh, uh, we had a lot of projects around

1:08.8

security and, um, you know, processes. So,

1:12.6

uh, that's, that's primarily what we're doing. We were a member of ACC, um, the American

1:17.3

Chemical Council and, and they, you know, they're kind of similar to what, um, ITIL, you know,

1:22.4

they, they have a lot of policies and stuff. So we, we really are building around procedures. But the big thing, and I'm sure

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