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Don't Let Fear Decide w/Charissa Wong

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Technology, Tech News, Management, News, Business

549 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Listen now: subscribe and join 1,000s of IT Leaders changing the face of IT. Now… ON THIS EPISODE ➤ How IT leaders navigate career growth in geographically isolated markets ➤ The unexpected value of cross-functional experience in sales for IT professionals ➤ Building professional community and peer networks in small market environments ➤ Overcoming gender dynamics and communication challenges in technology leadership ➤ Strategic approaches to cybersecurity consulting for vulnerable small businesses What happens when geographic isolation meets professional ambition? At Bowers and Kubota in Honolulu, Hawaii, Charissa Wong serves as Director of IT and Security, leading technology initiatives for...

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0:00.0

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

0:12.9

I'm your host, Doug Kameen, and today I'm talking with Sharissa Wong, Director of IT

0:17.5

and Security at Bowers in Kubota at Honolulu, Hawaii.

0:22.2

Welcome to the show, Sherissa.

0:23.9

Thank you, Doug.

0:25.1

Appreciate being here.

0:27.5

So this is the first for me.

0:38.7

Honolulu is, so listeners don't know this because I had a conversation about this on the podcast, but I love, Hawaii is like my favorite vacation place to go. You know, it's funny. I live on the, I live on the East Coast, but I, uh, every time I go, it's like, it's just awesome.

0:44.4

So I, I, I'm excited to talk to somebody who's, you know, like, like, what, uh, what do you, what do you do? Tell us a

0:57.7

little about what you do and what, uh, what being in Honolulu is like. Is this on, uh, just on,

1:04.0

um, my off time or during my, well, we can, we can, we can, we can go both here, right? Because like,

1:09.8

I mean, your work day, your work day is not sitting on a lovely beach,

1:14.8

I'm sure, right?

1:15.8

Oh, no.

1:16.8

I see.

1:17.6

Yeah, I know.

1:19.3

This isn't, like, you know, whatever, like Magnum PI, you know, where they're like,

1:23.0

oh, look, we go home to this thing and we just walk out on the beach all the day.

1:26.7

Right, right.

1:28.7

Yeah.

1:30.0

Tell us a little bit about you.

1:35.3

Tell us a little bit about, you know, we'll start with your work and then we'll talk a little bit about Honolulu, I guess.

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