Everyone, Tom Sweet.

Welcome to you've been heard.

Let's just start off with the brief breakdown and what your day job is right now.

Let's start there.

Sure. So my day job, I'm CIO of a private equity backed portfolio company. We've acquired eight companies. And so in my role, I'm doing everything

from software development, large language model work, AI strategy, educating the executive team on AI, running

security end-to-end, Azure security, Microsoft 365 security, obviously of the policies, the budget,

the purchasing, demand the management, emergence and acquisitions, deep diligence, working with

the board, helping the board with other companies in

their portfolio that either don't have a CIO or have a management service provider and providing

a second set of eyes on those decisions. And then my team handle support, cameras, physical

security, phones, telecom, everything, some app development, website work. So pretty

much everything that goes on in IT in a small company, we do one way or the other here.

Let's start with what's your recipe or how do you deal with all that? How do you break all

that down? What are the steps? I enjoy this type of work. Not everyone does. There's a lot of people in the CIA community who

almost pride themselves on either not being tactical, never having being tactical, or no longer

needing to be tactical. And the nature of my current role is I have to be deep into this. And my previous role at Jim

Financial, I was leading 130 people. And so there was a lot that I didn't understand of the

ends and outs of the different financial systems for the different financial systems my team

worked on. Right. I had different teams that worked on the lease system or the remarketing, which is when a car

came off of lease, right?

I was trying to manage three levels of management and drive business transformation.

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