195. Kennie Rotunda: Bridging the Gap Between Business and Technology

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Kennie Rotunda Kennie Rotunda is the Vice President of IT & Business Change Management at Loenbro, a construction company that provides a single-source solution for a full range of industries. From his early days as a professional artist to his extensive 20+ years experience in IT management and project delivery, Kennie brings a unique perspective to drive innovation and deliver impactful solutions. Kennie Rotunda: Bridging the Gap Between Business and Technology In this episode, Kennie Rotunda shares his early tech encounters, leadership path, and the challenges of isolated problem-solving. He discusses Agile’s pros and cons in project management, explores conspiracy theories, and recalls a time before the internet and TV. Emphasizing the crucial role of communication and trust in IT-business relationships, Kennie also discusses intranets’ unifying function and the significance of understanding business relationship management.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome, everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds. This is your OG original host,
0:19.0	Phil Howard. I've been gone for, it might be a year now.
0:23.8	It might actually be a year.
0:24.9	I've had Michael and numerous other people doing shows.
0:28.0	So I'm going to welcome myself back, I guess.
0:31.3	And I hope everyone's happy for that.
0:33.1	We'll find out if the ratings go down now,
0:35.1	if the original host, host you know coming back um
0:38.9	does any good or or bad but um you know anyways we've got kenny is it rotunda am i
0:47.0	pronouncing your last name correctly yeah you got it exactly that's actually pretty awesome
0:52.6	that's pretty that's pretty rot. You know, so let's just do it the old
0:59.1	school way. You know, we've got IT leadership. That wasn't a thing back in the day. How the,
1:04.8	how the heck did you get into IT? Well, what was, we'll do the old school question what was your very first computer that is a good
1:15.0	question um well as a as a somebody just kind of getting in we have to change that to we have to
1:21.2	like what if it was like my kids nowadays would be like what's you what was your very first tablet
1:25.9	it would have to be like, what was your first device?
1:28.8	You know, so anyways, do you remember?
1:32.2	Or what was your first fond memory of playing on a keyboard that clicked or something?
1:38.6	What was it?
1:40.1	Yeah, it'd have to be, you know, I don't remember the model, but it was one of those Atari keyboards, basically, you plug into a, into a CRT, and you could do some basic programming or something like that.
1:53.0	And I don't remember the model of it at all.
1:55.4	I ended up dropping it on the ground one day and it broke.
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