276- From CAD to IT: Denny Farrell’s Unconventional Path to IT Leadership

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Denny Farrell Denny Farrell is an IT operations and business continuity expert with a unique perspective shaped by his diverse career journey. Currently, he oversees IT operations and strategic planning for Builders, a family-run company with footprints in Colorado and Nebraska. With a background in architecture and CAD, Denny brings a fresh approach to IT management, emphasizing user experience and leveraging cloud solutions for efficient data management. From CAD to IT: Denny Farrell’s Unconventional Path to IT Leadership Join host Philip Howard as he dissects the IT industry with guest Denny Farrell, an IT operations and business continuity expert. Listen in as they discuss Farrell’s unconventional path into the IT world, the importance of user experience, and the challenges of managing large CAD files. Learn about the value of knowing what you don’t know and how to leverage the cloud for efficient data management. This episode is packed with insights for IT professionals looking to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving industry.

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0:00.0	Welcome, everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:10.0	Today, no relation.
0:11.9	Last name is spelled different.
0:13.2	We are speaking with Denny Farrell.
0:15.3	No relationship to Will Ferrell whatsoever, but you're much better looking.
0:19.7	So hopefully, hopefully more funny.
0:23.7	I don't know if anyone, I don't know if we can pull that one off.
0:26.0	But, so I, from my, from my alma mater, how do you say that alma mater state, Colorado, are you in Denver?
0:35.1	Do you live outside in the mountains some way?
0:36.9	I've got a little bit of them? You've got a little bit of
0:37.7	you. You've got a little bit of a mountain man look to you. That would be nice. I actually had to
0:42.8	clean it up when I took this job a couple years ago. But it was pretty long. I'm the opposite.
0:50.5	So IT operations, management, business continuity, whatever that is. That means let's keep the business
0:58.0	going so it doesn't burn down to the ground and, you don't know, disappear. I put a meme out
1:03.8	on LinkedIn the other day that just basically showed a picture of Armageddon and said,
1:07.3	you know, what if everyone in IT just quit their job?
1:11.7	I saw that.
1:12.7	I saved that picture, actually.
1:14.4	That's what we're going to call business continuity.
1:17.3	I made that one up.
1:18.0	I felt pretty good about that one.
1:19.3	I made a somewhat minor viral, not really viral meme.
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