304- Carlos Soriano on Agile, Leadership, and Building Bridges in IT

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Carlos Soriano With over a decade of experience leading IT teams across Europe and North America, Carlos Soriano currently serves as Director of IT for Applications and Business Intelligence at RectorSeal in Houston. His expertise spans implementing agile methodologies, managing large-scale IT projects, and facilitating collaboration between technical and business teams. Soriano’s international background provides him with a unique perspective on leadership and cultural differences in the IT industry. Cross-Cultural IT Leadership: Carlos Soriano’s Journey and Agile Implementation Insights Discover effective strategies for leading IT teams across various cultures and industries with insights from Carlos Soriano, Director of IT for Applications and Business Intelligence at RectorSeal. From his journey spanning Spain to Houston, Soriano delves into the challenges of IT Leadership, Agile implementation, and Team management. Learn how he tackles IT scaling for rapid company growth, facilitates Business-IT collaboration, and bridges the gap between technical and business teams through Strategic thinking. Explore the lessons IT leaders can glean from Soriano’s International experience, including Cross-cultural leadership and promoting Employee well-being. Enhance your Project management skills and Career advice with Soriano’s unique perspective.

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everyone, to dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:06.7	I'm your host, Doug Kameen, and today I'm talking with Carlos Soriano, the director of IT
0:12.8	for applications and business intelligence at Rector Seal.
0:16.6	Welcome, Carlos.
0:18.1	Thank you.
0:18.5	Thank you for coming me, Douglas.
0:20.3	Yeah.
0:20.8	So it's great to have you on the show and get a chance to talk to you about your leadership
0:25.6	journey.
0:26.6	But before we got on the recorded part of our discussion, you're telling me you got a big week coming up here.
0:32.6	A lot of stuff going on.
0:34.6	Yeah, we have a couple of big initiatives coming live this week.
0:39.8	So we have today on Monday a change in the way we ingest our EDI signals for orders that
0:45.6	will let us process and massage data much better than we currently do.
0:50.5	So it's been a big initiative testing almost 60 different business partners that we
0:56.4	work with Amazon on Depot all these all these big guys and on Friday we have a change in
1:03.8	the way we interface with C.H. Robinson which is our fleet management tool also a lot of testing
1:09.3	we started with this almost December last year, so
1:12.6	big, big projects this week. Hopefully, by the end of the week, we can still receive orders
1:17.2	and ship stuff to places.
1:21.3	You're affecting both ends of your supply chain on this week, right? You know, you get them
1:26.3	coming and you get them going here.
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