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You've Been Heard

56. Huffing Fiberglass Fumes & Living the IT Dream

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Tech News, Technology, Business, Management, News

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Matt McNair 25+ plus years working for Threshold Ent hands on from the ground up. Have been successful in many areas including Distribution, Inventory Control, Warehousing, Pilot Plant, Graphics, and mostly Project management, IT Database Administration and Infrastructure Architecture / Management. I work with a fantastic team of self-managing and efficient / effective individuals that have also grown and have been successful in our IT department. I also work with some of the best IT Value Added Retailers that support our companies best interest as well as promote a happy healthy prosperous relationship in success, process improvements, support, as well as keeping a focus on community.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:12.5

Today we have Matt McNair on the line.

0:16.2

Pretty amazing stories here.

0:18.0

First of all, 26 years at the same company, but prior to, prior to professional

0:25.2

boat builder, which is really cool and near and dear to my heart, honestly, because,

0:29.5

and we were talking about doctors and lawyers earlier and completely stereotyping them as

0:34.6

tightwads and unable to spend money, which is completely okay. We can do that on

0:39.1

this show because I run the show and I come from a family full of doctors and it's totally true.

0:43.7

I grew up spending all my time in Maine with my father, who is a doctor and has a 42-foot

0:49.3

tiara and he's also a captain. So he has like the double whammy for you. So he's got a boat business and he's a doctor. So he has like the double whammy for you.

0:54.3

So he's got a boat business and he's a doctor.

0:57.4

So that's like a double whammy, isn't it?

0:59.7

Yeah, no kidding.

1:01.6

We've got to convince him to spend money on his boat

1:03.9

and he also uses it as a business.

1:05.6

But a little side note,

1:06.5

all the pictures that you ever saw taken of George Bush,

1:09.2

both 41 and 43, I believe. We're taken from

1:12.8

my dad's boat in Kenny Bunkport, Maine. Wow. So, yeah, the Navy SEALs used to come,

1:18.2

dive underneath his boat, and then the press secretary would jump on and be like, okay,

1:21.5

when the president goes out fishing, you've got to follow him. Matt, you started off boat building.

1:26.2

Let's just kind of retell that story a little bit real quick.

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