279-A Journey Through Time: Andy Knauf’s 34 Years of IT Leadership

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Technology

5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Andy Knauf With a remarkable 34-year tenure at his company, Andy Knauf serves as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Mead & Hunt. He has extensive experience in modernizing infrastructure and transforming technology organizations. Andy’s journey began with building his own computer and has since led him to become a respected leader in the IT industry. A Journey Through Time: Andy Knauf’s 34 Years of IT Leadership In this captivating episode of “Dissecting Popular IT Nerds,” host Phillip Howard interviews Andy Knauf, a CIO with an impressive 34-year tenure at Mead & Hunt. Andy takes us on a journey through the evolution of technology, sharing insights from his early days of building computers to his current role. He emphasizes the importance of long-term commitment and the power of company ownership, offering valuable lessons for IT executives and aspiring leaders.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds today.
0:11.0	Andy Kanoff is on the show, CIO.
0:15.5	We have a lot of IT directors, IT managers, not always CIO.
0:19.9	So you're kind of a big deal.
0:22.1	That's pretty cool.
0:23.9	And you do CIO stuff.
0:27.5	And in your About section on your LinkedIn profile, you have extensive experience in modernizing
0:32.0	infrastructure and transforming technology organizations.
0:34.5	So that makes me want to ask, what's the oldest box of junk you've
0:39.4	ever had to, um, to forklift? And what's some of the oldest stuff that you've seen? Because I like
0:44.6	going back in time and talking about old technology that we used to work on with tape backups and
0:49.4	I don't know, you know, things spinning around in the background, like from old, you know, 007 movies.
0:57.0	I'll give you a little bit of background. So the company that I'm with right now, I'm going to have my 34th anniversary here next month in May.
1:06.2	So when I started, I got hired right out of school.
1:11.3	I was 21.
1:12.8	We had one office and 85 people and now we're 60 offices and 1,350 people.
1:19.9	But when I started, I built my own computer and I had a 1,200 bod modem.
1:25.6	And they were so impressed at work because the fastest modem they had was a 300 bod modem. And they were so impressed at work because the fastest modem they had was a 300
1:29.9	bod modem.
1:31.3	So if that doesn't date me, I don't know what does.
1:36.0	What is Doth a bod?
1:42.6	Wow, I'm actually excited.
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