Welcome back to today's episode of Dissecting Popular IT Nerds.

I'm your host, Doug Kameen, and today I'm talking with Callan Schoonenberg, CIO at Wausau Supply Company.

Welcome to the show, Callan.

Thanks for having me.

So, Callan, you're in the Midwest, the Upper Midwest.

I did it.

We talked about this before the episode

started. I make sure I pronounce this right. And I want to do the Northeast thing, which is

like the, calling it Wausau, but it's not. It's Wausau Supply Company. Wausau. Yeah. Wausau

Supply company. That's right. You get that Wisconsin, that Wisconsin statement in here.

So you've been there a couple years. Can you tell us a little bit about what you do at Wausau Supply Company? Yeah, I actually

just started about four months ago, so pretty new to the role. But the company moves pretty fast. So I've,

I've gotten to see and do quite a bit since joining, which has been a really fun journey so far.

Mm-hmm. And so you're new to this role, been there about four months. Prior to this, you spent, you had a pretty long career at a, you know, a very major firm before that.

I'm cheating by using your LinkedIn profile here, but you were at Eden for a number of years.

So tell us a little bit about your leadership journey and how you came to be in the CIO role

and what made you want to make the jump from, in a larger organization to a more mid-market

organization as the CIO. Yeah. So I had a really long, great career at Eaton,

awesome company and had taken various roles. I'm a mechanical engineer by background and

study mechanical engineering in

Spanish. So I've had various roles throughout different functions. I think I have a very non-traditional

probably IT leadership career journey. So it was an engineering operations supply chain, then joined IT really because I had worked with IT very closely for many years and bringing our data together, our engineering and our supply chain data into a central location where it could be used for continuous improvement.

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