337 - How your IT strategies are suffocating growth by Sarfraz Shaikh

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Technology

5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Sarfraz Shaikh Starting in marketing and communications at OneMesa, Sarfraz Shaikh transitioned to IT leadership through initiative and problem-solving. Now serving as Director of IT, he oversees technology across four distinct business units, bringing a unique blend of communication skills and technical expertise to the role. Your IT strategies silently suffocate growth, here is why. How do you manage IT across multiple business units during rapid growth? In this episode, Sarfraz Shaikh shares his experience leading technology for OneMesa’s four distinct companies, discussing the evolution from small business to mid-market operations, the importance of user engagement, and how IT can...

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0:00.0	Welcome back to today's episode of Dissecting Popular IT Nerds.
0:06.0	I'm your host, Doug Kimeen, and today I'm talking with Sarfraise Shake, Director of Information Technology at One Mesa.
0:12.0	Welcome to the show, Salfraise.
0:14.0	Thank you, Doug. Appreciate it.
0:16.0	So before we got on the show here, we were talking a little bit about the complexity of the business that you're in.
0:23.3	You're in a mid-sized business, but One Mesa is not just one business.
0:27.6	It's like four businesses put together.
0:30.0	And you're running the tech for all of them all across the way here.
0:34.1	You tell us a little bit about that?
0:36.1	Yeah, absolutely.
0:36.9	So I, Director of IT at One Mesa, and being here. You tell us a little bit about that? Yeah, absolutely. So I, Director of IT at One Mesa,
0:40.5	and been here for about 14 years now, you know, who's counting when they're having so much fun,
0:46.7	time flies. My responsibilities span hardware, software, cybersecurity, business and IT alignment, vendor partnerships.
0:58.3	So I've got a huge portfolio.
1:00.4	And that's the beauty of as the company is growing from a small business to a mid-sized
1:06.1	business.
1:06.7	We have four unique brands.
1:09.5	We've got Mesa Products, which is a manufacturing company.
1:13.3	We play in the oil and gas market.
1:15.9	So we manufacture ground bed designs that go into the ground to protect the assets.
1:21.0	Assets could be the pipelines, above ground storage tanks, things like that.
1:25.3	Then we've got Mesa Services,
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