187. Ryan Lee Explains How He Fills IT Roles

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Ryan Lee Ryan Lee is the Director of IT at E.W. Wylie. Ryan knew at a young age that IT was the right path for him, and today there are about 400 team members under his sphere of influence in the transportation industry. Ryan Lee Explains How He Fills IT Roles Ryan shares his background and what led him to be in the role he occupies now. He also gets into his approach to problem solving and how he navigates difficulties in his own work as well as with his team. He later shares his insight on how he stays up-to-date with the latest in technology and his trick for dealing with silos.

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0:00.0	All right. Well, welcome back, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Dissecting Popular IT Nurt. Today, we have Ryan Lee, director of IT. Hey, Ryan, how about giving us a little bit of your background and who you are, what you do, and what's different about your industry?
0:26.3	Awesome.
0:26.7	Hey, Mike, yeah, thanks for having me.
0:28.1	This is exciting.
0:29.9	So I guess I'll jump right into the background topic.
0:33.5	So I started my first idea that IT was going to be in my future, probably back in ninth grade.
0:40.5	I, like with every student, you start going through the careers class and look at what opportunities are out there.
0:46.7	And I looked at teaching as one potential.
0:50.0	I looked at being a lawyer.
0:52.3	I looked at some law enforcement.
1:12.0	And I started to have some self-awareness that, you know, I spend just a little bit more than what I'd need to be comfortable doing on a teacher's salary. I need more excitement in my life than what being a lawyer would provide unless I wanted to get into criminal law, which was not an avenue I wanted to go down.
1:26.4	And I had just the right amount of self-preservation available that I didn't really want to find myself in a scenario to be a law enforcement and have to be in any of those.
1:30.8	I was going to point out, the excitement piece and law enforcement, those sound like they collide. Yeah, so definitely figuring out how to dial in my desire for excitement with my
1:38.3	desire for not too much of it. Everything in small doses for sure. So what it came down to is I settled on a
1:46.5	career path of technology. I had a lot of friends in technology that were, you know, I grew up with
1:51.9	some really smart kids. I had buddies that third, fourth grade were writing little like flash
1:57.1	code games on their, you know, Windows 95 computers and stuff that I was just impressed
2:03.7	with and thought, you know, this seems cool. Like, I'm not quite at their level, but I think I can
2:09.0	start to get successful in IT and maybe someday I'll make a name for myself. So that's what I did.
2:15.0	And I went down that path for the rest of high school, taking elective classes and things like that.
2:20.0	I went to a college in my hometown that's pretty well known for football.
2:25.5	Sadly, did not get a college scholarship in football for it.
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