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174. Staying Ahead of the IT Curve with Christian Haller

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Tech News, Technology, Business, Management, News

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🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Christian Haller Christian Haller is the Director of IT at Diamond C Trailers. He started in the automotive industry dealing with blueprints after initially studying architectural technology and construction management before transitioning to an entry-level networking job in 2009 for the Michigan Sugar Company. After working his way up in that role, after 11 years, Christian moved on to become a System Engineer for a short time before landing his current role at Diamond C Trailers. Staying Ahead of the IT Curve with Christian Haller Listen in to hear Christian’s thoughts on integration and infrastructure, getting ahead of the curve, training, fluidity, and learning from mistakes. We also hear about how the culture at Diamond C allows for easy communication with executives.

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0:00.0

Hi, nerds. I'm Michael Moore, hosting this podcast for dissecting popular IT nerds.

0:13.6

I'm here with Chris Holler, director of IT at Diamond C Trailers.

0:17.0

Hi, Chris. How's it going today?

0:19.6

Good. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.

0:22.4

Excellent. Is this your first time doing a podcast? Yes, this is pretty much my first time. So I'll make

0:28.7

sure I try to talk a lot and it's not a whole lot of debt air on your side. Fantastic. I'm

0:35.2

going to start off with our ice paper segments called Random Access Memories. I ask a question. You respond with whatever comes to your head first. It's a fun segment, so just have fun with it. What's your favorite website?

0:49.9

My favorite website? Right now, I think I'm doing a lot of shopping on Amazon. So, you know,

0:55.7

plug to them, but with everything going on in this day and age of tech back orders and stuff,

1:02.4

I always seem to bounce back that way right now. So my number one. Everything is. I don't understand

1:08.3

every time I turn around, I owe Amazon money. I don't understand what's going on with that when you when you think of the pioneers of IT

1:16.4

who comes to your mind oh that's good because I just finished reading the book

1:23.6

build not too long ago so Tony Fidel is this always sitting in the back of my head right now

1:28.5

just for the fact that I read that. But I mean, just hearing the stories of how he, he kind of came up

1:34.7

with the iPhone and then Ness Thermostat. I mean, to me, this trend setting. But Steve Jobs,

1:42.6

just Apple in general, I'm a huge Mac guy.

1:45.0

So you saw that they're pairing down the iPhone production, right?

1:50.0

I know.

1:51.0

Yeah, I did.

1:52.0

If anyone could see the sad little face he just made what I gave him that news.

1:59.0

If you had one IT superpower, what would it be?

2:07.4

You know, I think it almost be like, I'd like to read people's minds sometimes

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