262- Fred Donatucci on Mastering IT Leadership and Driving Change

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Fred Donatucci Fred Donatucci is an accomplished IT leader with over 25 years of experience driving business transformation and change. His passion for technology started early with his first computer, an Apple IIe. Fred went on to study economics and philosophy, combining his interests in business and technology. He has led IT teams and projects at global companies including Mattel, Honeywell, and Avery Dennison. Known for solving complex challenges, Fred utilizes his breadth of business and technology knowledge to create IT solutions that drive value. Fred Donatucci on Mastering IT Leadership and Driving Change What does it take to become an effective IT leader? How has the role evolved over the years? In this podcast, we tackle these questions and more in an insightful chat with IT pro Fred Donatucci. Drawing on over two decades of experience, Fred shares perspectives on transitioning to management, integrating systems after mergers, and witnessing seismic technology shifts. Expect a view on where IT leadership has been, the challenges leaders face today, and advice for the future as we cover lessons around courageous conversations, letting go of the past, and continuous learning.

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0:00.0	Okay, welcome back, everyone to dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:10.1	I'm your host, Doug Kameen.
0:11.3	And today, I'm talking with Fred Donatucci,
0:13.4	a longtime leader in the IT space in the Los Angeles area.
0:17.4	Welcome to the show, Fred.
0:19.3	Hey, thank you.
0:19.7	It's great to be here. Awesome.
0:21.6	So before we jumped on here, we were talking a little bit, I just passed through
0:25.9	L.A. myself on my way back from a trip.
0:30.3	Now, I was in Hawaii, but you, yeah, but you, yeah, it was, it was really rough.
0:36.6	You know, I was, I was bearing some burdens there.
0:39.0	But you're not from Los Angeles.
0:42.3	I was looking at your profile.
0:43.6	So where, where are you from?
0:45.8	Well, I grew up, I grew up in the greater Delaware Valley, Philadelphia area.
0:50.8	So I grew up in Philadelphia, spent around half my early life there and then the other half in
0:55.5	southern New Jersey. Oh, my gosh. You're actually, that's close to where I live. I'm in upstate New York,
1:00.7	and I was just a couple hours away from from there. So, so. Yeah, then I went to school up in northern New Jersey.
1:05.8	So, yeah, the whole area, I've been bouncing around in there. Very nice. Very nice. So, Fred, tell me, here on the podcast, we love, we love, you know, we've called
1:15.8	Dissected Popular IT Ners because we love to just slice and dice to figure out what makes
1:19.9	people tick, what's, what makes a good leader in this space.
1:23.8	So for you, I'd like to, let's just start from your career perspective.
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