354- What really kills senior IT careers today? with Chris Meyerpeter

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Technology

5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Chris Meyerpeter Chris Meyerpeter opens up about his remarkable path from Navy radioman to CIO, sharing candid insights about leading IT organizations and creating meaningful business impact through technology. He discusses the critical importance of understanding business operations, the pragmatic implementation of agile methodologies, and how to build high-performing IT teams that drive real business value. Listen now, discover: Security strategy integration with business objectives How to balance agile methodologies in non-tech industries ✴ How to build strong IT teams through cultural transformation Building sustainable talent development programs✏️ How military service shaped Chris’s technology career path

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:05.2	We're actually live for the very first time in history,
0:07.7	although it's only me and Chris Meyer-Peter right now that are actually live.
0:11.9	Eventually this is going to go on to YouTube and LinkedIn.
0:14.6	It's going to be a lot of fun.
0:16.0	And I don't know, we were just getting Chris's backstory, kind of, but let's really go way back in time.
0:23.1	What was your very first computer?
0:25.9	How did you get started in this insanity?
0:28.1	Oh, that is a great question.
0:29.7	So I, you know, my parents were blue collar middle class.
0:34.3	I did not have a computer growing up.
0:36.3	Didn't really even see one through high school
0:38.9	early days. I joined the Navy because that was the only way I was going to be able to go to college.
0:44.3	And that was the first time I really got into and started to understand networking,
0:48.2	infrastructure. I was a radio man in the Navy. And that job doesn't even exist anymore. It was combined with three or four
0:55.8	maybe even more other jobs. Now it's called by I to eat, which is kind of funny. But yeah,
1:01.6	so that was when I got my first touch in computers and a good, good friend of mine while I was
1:09.2	in the Navy. He was, he understood them really well. And so I kind of learned
1:13.5	from him. And that was when I kind of said, hey, this is, it's interesting. I understand how it works.
1:20.6	But, you know, got a lot of experience in the Navy. And, you know, I always joke with folks, you know,
1:26.7	came out, went to school, got a job but I I kind of tell people I was mid 90s I had a pulse and I
1:33.9	understood computers so at the time you know everybody was going through the Windows 95
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