219- Keep Calm and Communicate: Andrew Landers on Being an Effective IT Leader

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Technology

5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Andrew Landers Andrew Landers’ passion for technology started early and led to a degree in computer networking. His 6+ years refining technical skills across education, enterprise, medical, construction, and automotive sectors provided diverse business knowledge. As IT Manager at Speer Mechanical since 2023, Andrew is the sole IT representative for 250 users. With a growth mindset and calm demeanor focused on communication and understanding needs, he excels at building relationships and transforming chaotic scenarios into successes as an IT leader. Keep Calm and Communicate: Andrew Landers on Being an Effective IT Leader Join host Mike Kelley and Andrew Landers, Director of IT at Spear Mechanical, for an insightful discussion into thriving in the world of IT. Learn Andrew’s top tips for effective communication, planning ahead, teaching users, and staying calm under pressure. With over a decade of diverse IT experience, Andrew provides hard-won advice for managing projects, relating to coworkers, and keeping perspective. Tune in to pick up practical skills that will transform you into a savvy IT leader able to turn chaotic scenarios into big successes.

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0:00.0	All right. Well, welcome to dissecting popular IT nerds, where we are allowed to geek out with our fellow nerds and there are no eye scrolls.
0:17.5	And hopefully we'll keep it in or dinging enough that your eyes won't glaze over like my wife's do when I'm talking to her.
0:24.4	So today I'm proud to introduce Andrew Landers, who's just recently hit the six-month mark as the director of IT at Spear Mechanical.
0:33.9	Hey, Andrew, why don't you tell us a little about yourself, but start off with telling us your
0:38.5	favorite childhood video game, and are you still playing it today?
0:42.7	Favorite childhood video game? I'm still kind of young, so I definitely, Halo is definitely
0:49.2	my favorite childhood game. I've been playing it ever since. I've played the first Halo way, way back in the early 2000s and I've loved it ever since, played every Halo since and still play it to the day. We'll replay campaigns. I'll have fun with it. So that's definitely my favorite one.
1:07.0	Okay. Yeah, I remember the first couple of times I played Halo and I couldn't even get out of that first valley.
1:12.8	It was so frustrating.
1:14.2	Oh, my gosh.
1:15.3	I know.
1:16.1	I went back and I remember when I originally played it.
1:18.9	I was playing on normal that I ended up playing on legendary just to see how hard it was.
1:22.7	And oh, my gosh, I don't know how many hours it took for me to finally get past it.
1:29.5	But no, it's so much fun.
1:35.0	I just love the storyline with Master Chief and The Arbiter and just it's so much fun to play.
1:37.6	And it's definitely, we'll always have a place in my heart.
1:43.3	Okay. Well, so now tell us a little more about your geek history or your nerd history and what you're doing and how you became a director.
1:46.6	Yeah.
1:47.0	Well, you know, kind of how I got into the whole to geek out with computers a little bit was my dad got into it way back in the day.
1:54.9	I used to play, you know, Oregon Trail and roller coaster tycoon on the old, uh, nice tan box sitting there in the basement
2:02.7	and, you know, with the hang out, big, thick monitor, big, thick monitor, exactly.
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