233- Becoming an IT Leader: Douglas Camin on Building Trust, Managing Crises, and Driving Innovation

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Douglas Camin Douglas Camin is an experienced IT leader who currently serves as CITO for Coordinated Care Services, Inc. (CCSI). He has a track record of using technology to drive business transformation and innovation. Douglas holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and is passionate about mentoring emerging IT leaders. Known for his calm demeanor during high-pressure situations, he emphasizes the importance of building strong relationships across the organization. Douglas has led IT teams through major technology changes and growth phases at both small and mid-sized companies. Becoming an IT Leader: Douglas Camin on Building Trust, Managing Crises, and Driving Innovation In this week’s episode of the , we sit down with Douglas Camin, an experienced IT leader who shares his insights on overcoming challenges and driving change. Douglas provides advice on building strong relationships, earning trust, and leading with confidence during crises. He emphasizes positioning IT as strategic partners and process consultants. Douglas offers lessons for IT professionals seeking to become highly effective technology leaders. His perspectives provide an inside look at the interpersonal skills critical for IT leadership success.

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0:00.0	Sometimes, you know, you just miss the best discussion sometimes, you know, you miss,
0:10.4	you just miss the best discussion sometimes and laser backgrounds in the, well, what
0:15.9	have been the 80s for you or in the early 90s, you know, middle school?
0:18.9	Middle school, middle school would have been like the late 80s and early 90s.
0:22.1	Yeah.
0:22.7	Middle school pictures.
0:24.2	By the way, I started, I started reading in 1984.
0:29.3	I never read it because I was kind of a bum in school.
0:32.5	I was like, you know, like, gays get degrees.
0:35.0	I shouldn't be admitting this online because I'm in a highly technical
0:37.8	industry now where you actually have to. That was me. That was me through school too. Like,
0:41.9	yeah. You have to be somewhat intelligent in our industry, I think, you know, not rocket science,
0:47.5	but, oh, that's a lie as well in my opinion. But, you know, what are you going to do? So,
0:53.2	Douglas Kamen, is it Kamen? Kamin camman camman camine you know i'm like
0:58.1	i'm like i'm probably i'm a i'm a c student on these as well i'm again i'm batting at like
1:02.5	70% of this commune douglas camine c i t yes okay so see i'm just i'm done today c i too please just explain what you do and why you're so
1:15.7	important and i'll let you talk because i have had many cups of coffee and have not um too many
1:22.5	meetings in a row before i got to you and i was late to this this one. I'm multiple meetings in today, too.
1:28.0	It's, uh, although I'm on West Coast time right now, I'm in San Diego. This is, this is, the,
1:32.3	the hotel I'm staying in at the moment for the NAN. I was going to say it looked very,
1:35.9	hotel-esque. Are you near the ocean? It is. It is very hotel-esque. Are you near the ocean? I'm sorry? Are you near the ocean? Yeah.
1:44.3	So you can't see it because it's, you know, it's blown out from the sunlight, but it's on the bay in San Diego.
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