319- Seth Yeack on Relevancy in IT & Connecting with End Users & Future of IT

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Seth Yeack Seth Yeack serves as the IT Manager at Dazpak, a packaging company that produces materials for major brands like Starbucks and McDonald’s. With a background in Army communications and self-taught programming skills, Seth brings a unique perspective to IT management. He emphasizes the importance of understanding business needs, automation, and continuous learning in the IT field. Seth Yeack on Relevancy in IT and Connecting with End Users & Future of IT How can IT professionals stay relevant in a rapidly changing tech landscape? In this episode, Seth Yeack, IT Manager at Dazpak, shares his journey from Army cabling to managing IT for a packaging company. Seth offers insights on understanding business needs, automating processes, and using AI effectively in IT. He emphasizes the importance of connecting with end users, continuous learning, and adapting to new technologies to drive business value.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:06.3	Today we're talking with Seth Yake, IT manager at DASPAC.
0:13.1	You guys make packages and stuff.
0:16.1	Really important stuff.
0:17.7	Tell me a little about it.
0:19.4	Yeah.
0:19.8	Well, if you ever go to Starbucks, we make the
0:21.7	packaging, right? So you get... Oh, literally. You literally do. Yeah. Yeah. Bags. Coffee bags,
0:29.0	potato chip bags, McDonald's wrappers, all that stuff. That's actually really big.
0:34.8	So let me get this straight. The cheeseburger wrapper that we squeeze out ketchup packets on and dip our French
0:41.8	fries in.
0:42.2	That's you guys.
0:43.3	Yep.
0:44.1	That's huge.
0:45.3	The little pastry bags that I received my lemon loaf in from Starbucks.
0:49.1	Is that you?
0:50.7	With the coffee bags.
0:51.9	Even the coffee bags.
0:53.2	Even coffee bags.
0:54.1	Vacuuming.
0:57.0	That's massive. I worked for Starbucks for at least half a decade.
1:03.0	That was a significant portion of my learning in the business world and my stepping stone into a Cisco startup, believe it or not.
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