290- Sebastian West on the Surprising Contents of His Server Room

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Sebastian West Sebastian West is an IT leader with over 30 years of experience in the field. Currently, he oversees the IT department at WSI, a company specializing in logistics, supply chain, warehousing, and e-commerce. With a passion for developing his team and navigating the ever-changing landscape of technology, Sebastian brings a unique perspective to the challenges faced by IT professionals today. Sebastian West on the Surprising Contents of His Server Room What do diapers have to do with IT? In this episode, Sebastian West reveals the unexpected contents of his server room and shares his experiences from the early days of IT. From the challenges of upgrading systems with floppy disks to the importance of delegation in leadership, Sebastian offers valuable insights for IT professionals. He also weighs in on the role of certifications in hiring and discusses his favorite vendors and security products.

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:10.0	Today, this kind of last minute we're talking about a warehouse full of diapers with Sebastian West.
0:16.0	I wish I had hit record earlier because what I thought was a server room is not.
0:20.0	It's not. It's a warehouse full of diapers.
0:21.8	I need to know more.
0:22.6	Please, first of all, welcome to the show.
0:24.8	I know we're talking about IT, but we need to first talk about this warehouse full of diapers
0:29.1	and what that's all about.
0:30.4	Yeah, you bet.
0:31.0	I actually prefer to talk about that rather than IT.
0:34.9	But, no, so we, we, here at WSI, the IT department,
0:41.2	we're actually in a building that used to be an indoor kind of recreation area.
0:47.2	It had go-carts, mini-golf, a climbing wall, bowling alley, you name it, right?
0:54.3	So we,
0:55.3	uh,
0:55.6	turned it into our home office or headquarters and,
0:59.4	you turn it into something much cooler.
1:01.8	Yeah,
1:02.3	maybe.
1:03.0	They didn't leave the climbing wall or the go carts,
1:05.6	which that's so dumb.
1:06.8	They should have.
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