173. How Robby Jakovljevic Went From Refugee to Director of IT

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Philip Howard

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🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Robby Jakovljevic Robby Jakovljevic is a Director of IT. After a lengthy application process, he arrived in Canada as a refugee from the civil war in Yugoslavia in the mid-1990s. Having learned English through immersion, he went on to study computer programming in Toronto before making the move to California in 2009. How Robby Jakovljevic Went From Refugee to Director of IT Today we get to hear Robby talk about his journey from a civil war zone to Canada, how he learned English by immersion, the communication problems that plague IT departments, and how to show value in your job.

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:13.1	Today, talking with refugee, escaped the country, came into Canada, and became an IT director, IT leader, mastermind.
0:27.1	His name is Robert Gakovievich.
0:30.5	And anyone that can spell that without looking him up, I will send you something in the mail.
0:37.4	Just send me your address, if you get that right.
0:39.2	Welcome to the show, sir.
0:41.5	Thank you, Phil. Thank you for having.
0:43.0	Yes. And I want to take the show in a new direction a little bit.
0:48.9	I mean, I could ask you what your first computer is, but we already know what that is.
0:52.0	It's a Commodore 64, which I've already deduced from doing the show numerous times.
0:57.7	That's, I don't know, definitely, like something like 80% of everyone's first computer that was,
1:03.7	I guess, X generation, early, early millennial, so to speak.
1:13.2	And I don't know if I'm dating you there,
1:15.2	but these are the stats.
1:17.7	Okay, this is this, this is just, this is the data.
1:20.9	And numbers don't lie.
1:22.4	People lie.
1:23.9	So one of the things that we don't talk a lot about on the show, we talk about
1:30.5	business, IT is a business force multiplier, how does IT get a seat at the executive table,
1:38.9	how does IT create real change, how do we get out of the server room that we used to hide in
1:48.7	where people slipped pizzas under the door?
1:52.0	And how do we kind of pull the layers back,
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