Where's The Any Key?
Where's The Any Key? is a podcast made to share conversations about IT and even some that are IT adjacent. It’s meant to create a community where host Ryan Bacon invites IT-minded individuals to contribute their ideas and processes in regard to technology management.
Episodes
Reilly Scull, CTO of Macktez, talks about cool IT Tools admins can have in their toolbox. Reilly also gives advice about hiring IT people and learning how to use the support teams of different vendors. Listen to what he has to say in this new episode of Where's the Any Key?
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How can IT admins thrive and keep continuing to improve the IT Department? We asked Jeff Bernt, security specialist in the Las Vegas area on how to use automation. Hear what he has to say in this new episode of Where's the Any Key?
How can IT admins thrive and keep continuing to improve the IT Department? We asked Ricky Jordan, the Senior Computer Systems Admin at Primitive Skate about tools and tips. Hear what he has to say in this new episode of Where's the Any Key?
David Garrity is the Senior Technology Manager at SPS. David, along with host Ryan Bacon, discuss what steps to take after you have built your IT team. David has a few suggestions to do once your IT team is built. First is to get the layout of the environment, Documentation, Changing Management, and having Trusted Partners. Ryan and David discuss what that means and different case studies on how they were able to use it in their re...
Kyle McKenna is the Manager of Enterprise Technology for Cars.com. Kyle, along with host Ryan Bacon, discuss what it's like to build an IT service from the ground up and what needs to be put in place to be successful. Kyle talks about how he was a one person shop that managed over 600 devices, while also putting policies and end point protections in place to keep everything running. The pair also talk about the importance of a...
Becky Scott has joined JumpCloud as the Sr Technical Community Manager. She discusses building communities within the IT field and what she loves about it. Becky discusses how to try and get on people's radar and leveraging early adopters to get people who don't adopt early to jump on board. She also discusses dealing with digital fatigue and what she can do as a community manager help cut through the noise and create a ...
Tom Bridge is back to talk about MDM and IT and also their wish list of management tools for IT in MDM
Listen to this episode of Where’s the Any Key? to hear Tom talking about Apple MDM management.
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Learn more at www.jumpcloud.com
From learning the basics of technology from his computer science doctorate mother at an early age to starting up his own IT consulting business, Brian Coleman is back and talks to Ryan about Administration Privileges on Endpoint Permissions.
Listen to this episode of Where’s the Any Key? to hear his takes on modern IT security processes, and talking about Administration Privileges on Endpoint Permissions.
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Donyea Foster is the IT specialist at JumpCloud. Donyea discusses his experience as an IT professional soldier in the Army and skills learned to help him be an IT professional. He explains dealing with other egos, PTSD, a soldier in the Army, and how that helps him use the skills learned to help JumpCloud.
Listen to this episode of Where's the Any Key? to hear Donyea's story as a soldier and how that helps him ...
Dennis Irizarry is the IT specialist at BetterCloud. Dennis has been working in tech for 12 years. Ryan and Dennis discuss how to use technology to help better the customer experience through different tools, automation, and creating better work flows.
Listen to this episode of Where's the Any Key? to hear what techniques and tactics Dennis Irizarry uses in his organization to provide the best experience for his cus...
Over the course of his career, Matt Cramer has worked a multitude of jobs. He got into tech and learned to do it all like an IT Generalist. He moved into DevOps and has been there since. Ryan and Matt discuss that to implement policies and new IT tech, you also have to get buy in from the team. Everything is a collaborative mission and vision and it is always important to include the whole team. They also discuss reassessing proc...
Chavarous Kennebrew loves everything IT. He is a father, a husband, and at his core, he is a computer.
Listen to this episode of Where’s the Any Key? to hear about how Chavarous used his past experiences outside of IT to become a better IT professional.
From learning the basics of technology from his computer science doctorate mother at an early age to starting up his own IT consulting business, Brian Coleman has dedicated nearly his entire life to the IT field. As such, he has a very unique perspective about how much the industry has changed over the past year as many organizations switched to a fully remote work model, and how their tech stack had to evolve to accommodate.
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Stephen Malone is the head of IT Operations at Built, a construction finance software firm based out of Tennessee. Over the course of his career, Malone noticed that IT professionals like himself receive a bad rap, associated with the problems they are tasked to fix. Since IT is so critical to modern organizations, Malone wanted to turn this perception on its head, establishing IT as a trusted source of knowledge for all things tec...
Born to a family of entrepreneurs, Yiddy Lemmer wanted to make his mark on the business world and decided to do so as a managed service provider (MSP). In this episode of Where's the Any Key?, Yiddy shares the secrets he learned along the way that helped make him and his company, CompuConnect, successful in the world of IT services.
Tune in to hear Yiddy's tips about keeping up with clients, prioritizing safe in...
As an IT administrator, you have an innate responsibility to support the end users in your environment while also ensuring everything is secure. A major part of both of these tasks is trust.
Building trust is crucial to building a strong working relationship with end users and other stakeholders. In a zero trust security environment, trust also establishes an underlying state of recognition and confidence that a person is ...
When a new employee joins an organization, both IT and HR teams need to work together to ensure that they're able to be up and running on their first day. In this episode of Where's the Any Key?, host Ryan Bacon talks with Courtney Ebersole, Manager of Learning and Development at JumpCloud, about the overlap of HR and IT during the onboarding process, and what IT admins do to streamline the process.
How can IT admins thrive (or at least survive!) during “the new normal” brought by the COVID-19 pandemic? We asked Bradley Chambers, an IT Director in EDU and a writer for 9to5Mac to share his strategies, tools, and tips. Hear what he has to say in this new episode of Where's the Any Key?
What do you need to consider when starting an IT career? Should you go to school, get certifications, just jump right in, or some combination of them all?
We welcome Noah Rosen, IT support technician at JumpCloud, back on to Where's the Any Key? for a second time to share his experience of entering the IT field, and what learnings he's taking away from it.
As an IT professional, should you focus on a specific area of your craft or expand your business acumen? We tackle this age-old question in a “mock debate” between our host Ryan Bacon and the IT manager of Inland Valleys Association of Realtors, Van Romine. Hear which path will best suit your career by checking out the Where’s the Any Key? podcast.
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