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39. Should DevOps big a big deal in your company? Are you ready?

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Tech News, Technology, Business, Management, News

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Justin Smucker Leading a 50+ member teams consisting of managers, architects, engineers, stakeholders and vendors to successfully deliver solutions across multiple programs. Taking IT Service Management to Enterprise Service Management following capabilities modeled after IT as a Business, leveraging cloud services to deliver to customers on-prem and working from home.

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0:00.0

All right, welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds.

0:13.6

And today we have Justin Smucker on the show with us from AFNI.

0:18.8

You guys do, I mean, really really a large contact center, which excites me.

0:23.6

So I'm not going to try and be selfish here and talk about that all day.

0:28.1

We're going to steer away from that.

0:30.0

And what I want to do first, Justin, is A, introduce you to the show.

0:34.8

But you, last time when we were talking, you were talking about really a huge

0:40.4

disruption in the industry right now. And I'm going to let you speak to that in a moment. But first,

0:47.7

tell me what was your first computer and how did you get started in anything like technology?

0:55.0

So, well, thank you for the introduction.

0:59.0

Hello, everyone.

1:01.0

My introduction to computers probably happened a lot later than most.

1:08.0

It was actually when I first walked into college.

1:14.3

I went to a DeVry University outside the Chicago area, and I literally changed my major the day

1:26.0

I walked in and signed up for classes and went into

1:30.2

telecommunications management. That's awesome. No one does that. Everyone should do that.

1:37.1

Everyone should do that. But most people going to college, like you said, actually, that probably

1:41.8

is very, very typical. Most people going to

1:44.5

college because you have to go to college because that's what we're told we have to do as

1:48.8

society. And that's what we do. But anyways, so what made you change right away? This is a really

1:55.1

cool story. I really honestly, something just spoke to me, you know, waiting in line, you know, seeing all these other kids and stuff.

2:04.3

And, you know, I mean, it was, I was signing up for electrical engineering otherwise, which, you know, another great field.

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