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170. Director of IT Joe Whalen Takes a Break From Hosting His Own Podcasts to Be a Guest on Ours

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Tech News, Technology, Business, Management, News

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🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Joe Whalen Joe Whalen is the Director of Information Technology at an electronics manufacturer in the DOD sector. With 30 years of experience in the industry, ranging from Radio Shack to his current position, Joe found himself falling into leadership early in his career. Of course, leadership is still a crucial part of what he does in his current role. Joe also hosts several podcasts with his family members in his spare time. Director of IT Joe Whalen Takes a Break From Hosting His Own Podcasts to Be a Guest on Ours Listen to the episode to hear Joe discuss his rise from working at Radio Shack to becoming Director of IT, the technicalities of mergers, and why you the desire to stay curious is a requirement for continuous growth in this field.

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0:00.0

Welcome to another episode of Dissecting Popular IT Nerds.

0:13.7

Today we've got Joe Whalen.

0:16.2

And Joe, why don't you tell us a little about yourself?

0:19.6

Sure.

0:20.2

So I'm a director of information technology for an electronics manufacturer in the DOD sector.

0:29.8

I've been in the industry for about 30 years now.

0:33.6

I started out a long time ago doing computer work for Radio Shack, actually.

0:41.6

I was a computer specialist for Radio Shack.

0:45.0

I know them.

0:46.7

Yeah, I used to know them, and they're really not around anymore.

0:50.4

Yeah.

0:51.1

So I just dated both of us.

0:53.7

Sorry.

0:58.3

Um. I think that just dated both of us. Sorry. From there, I wound up moving into, I was invited to come to an ISP at the time, dial up

1:05.9

in the 90s from a manager that I had actually worked for at Radio Shack.

1:12.7

And that was really where, you know, I was a computer specialist at Radio Shack,

1:16.8

but I mean, how special is that?

1:18.1

It's, to be honest.

1:20.6

But my real IT career started working for the Internet service provider doing dial-up support.

1:27.5

I was doing tech support for them, build out their web development group,

1:32.5

build out their network engineering group, came in literally at the bottom level.

1:38.1

And about seven years later, I walked out of there as the operations manager.

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