337- How your IT strategies are suffocating growth? Sarfraz Shaikh’s Journey to growth

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Technology

5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Sarfraz Shaikh Starting in marketing communications, Sarfraz Shaikh has spent 14 years at OneMesa, evolving into the Director of IT role. His unique background combines communications expertise with technology leadership, managing IT operations across four distinct business units in the oil, gas, and drilling industries. Leading IT Through Business Growth and Transformation What does it take to manage IT across four distinct businesses during significant growth? Sarfraz Shaikh shares his 14-year journey from marketing professional to IT Director at OneMesa, discussing how to balance standardization with flexibility, maintain security across diverse operations, and build trust through strategic leadership.

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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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