145. What Ryan Gruver Has Learned by Working With the Same Company for 14 Years

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Philip Howard

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🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Ryan Gruver Ryan Gruver is the IT Director at Banner Health. He has been with them for over 14 years, working his way up the ladder from Data Center Operations Specialist to Director of IT. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in Network and Systems Administration from the University of Advancing Technology, and a Master’s of Science in Information Management and Management Information Systems. What Ryan Gruver Has Learned by Working With the Same Company for 14 Years Listen to our conversation to hear Ryan’s thoughts on how he ended up in IT, his journey through Banner Health’s IT department, and how to bridge the gap between the IT world and the business world of upper-level management.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:14.0	Today we are talking with, hope I do this right, Ryan Groover.
0:18.0	Yes, sir, you got it right.
0:20.0	All right.
0:26.2	And you are IT director at Banner Health.
0:30.8	Maybe just real quick, give me an idea of what that looks like on a daily basis.
0:36.7	Are we dealing with, like, you know, mobile wireless units and all kinds of insanity over there?
0:38.0	How big is Banner Health?
0:45.4	Okay. So to give you the quick rundown, Banner Health is a 60,000 person organization approximately over 300 locations. I administer the data centers. So I have nine data centers and 11,100 IDFs and MBSs under my purview.
0:57.8	So about a quarter million square foot of IT real estate.
1:01.7	That's my insanity, is managing the physical that enables everything else to happen.
1:07.2	That's exciting.
1:09.3	I mean, it's not quite...
1:10.4	It's very exciting.
1:10.5	I love my job. It's not as big as the Facebook
1:12.7	data center spaces, which I've seen are probably insane, but it might be getting up there.
1:18.4	You know, I have actually, funny enough, I have toured a Facebook data center. I know what it's like.
1:23.2	The big difference in managing an enterprise data center is I don't have that level of redundancy
1:29.1	on all the core services above me. So I have to keep this type running online where, you know,
1:34.5	Facebook, hey, if that data center goes offline, you shift to the next data center over and they keep running.
1:39.8	I don't have that luxury. So there we go. Topic number one. So how do we keep, I don't know, how do we deal with disaster avoidance and redundancy when you have,
1:51.4	well, you're in one data center.
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